DKSR helps you to connect, visualize, and analyze decentralized data—for fact-based decisions across departmental and organizational boundaries — with full data sovereignty and high security.
The path to sovereign data use with DKSR
CIVORA – the smart data hub
With a data catalog, dashboards, analytics tools, digital twin, and much more
Collaborate across organizations: Use decentralized data jointly in a legally compliant way - across departmental and organizational boundaries.Decide based on evidence, not gut feeling: Precise analyses show which measures strengthen the environment, social cohesion, and the local economy.
Manage efficiently: Get the data, analyses, and reports you need at the push of a button instead of dealing with scattered data silos.
Open and sovereign: Open source, full data sovereignty, and an active user community that continuously advances CIVORA.
Ready for AI: CIVORA creates a reliable data foundation that enables AI applications to deliver robust decision support and concrete recommendations for action.
Our CIVORA community keeps growing
CIVORA data catalog
with an intuitive form-based interface for capturing data
The impact at a glance:
Capture (meta)data once in a structured way
Data sets can be found centrally instead of in isolated silos
Usage rights and licenses are stored correctly and directly
This creates a reliable data basis for projects across government agencies, municipalities, and state levels.
Your time spent on data work - with and without CIVORA
In the CIVORA Data Catalog, departments record data once, complete with meta data. In the Data Hub, it is centrally accessible and ready for analysis - more time for projects instead of searching for data.
How big this relief becomes is something each administration can influence itself by building data strategy, governance, and skills - DKSR supports you in this.
CIVORA Dashboards
with automated report generation
The impact at a glance:
Create dashboards in a modular system—no programming skills required
Combine KPIs from different specialist systems, departments, and organisations in shared dashboards.
Track indicators with progress and real-time monitoring, including alerts.
Automatically generate reports for management, policymakers, and funding documentation.
This turns data into the basis for efficient planning, steering, controlling, and social, environmental, and economic impact.
CIVORA allows us to work with multiple departments in a single shared tool. Seeing how data from different areas is integrated and combined into shared insights is a real gain for us - all while maintaining full data sovereignty.
Developed once - deployed in many municipalities
From Use Cases to Shared Analysis Tools for Specialized Applications in CIVORA
Data-based use cases answer very concrete urban planning questions - for example: Where do urban heat islands form? Where do we see the highest energy consumption and thus the most CO₂ emissions? Which climate adaptation measures have the strongest impact? Where are safe cycle paths missing, and where is renovation most worthwhile first?
These use cases give rise to specialised analytics tools for municipal specialist applications that can be used in the CIVORA Data Hub. The big advantage: data-driven decisions for targeted budget optimisation, effective climate action, and overall more resilient municipalities with a higher quality of life.
Empowering people - using data with sovereignty
From data strategy and data governance to practical skillsEven the best data technology is of little use if it is unclear who is allowed to use data for what purpose and how cross-departmental collaboration can be legally compliant. For CIVORA to have impact, municipalities need clear structures, processes, responsibilities, and development goals.
In addition, when employees are involved early in digitalisation and data projects and are empowered to work with data, data becomes a natural part of everyday work. This creates a solid data foundation that enables municipalities to steer their development confidently with data and AI and to set priorities on a sound basis.
Data strategy & data governance
Process support for digitalisation & data projects
Empowering employees
Data-based use cases
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