Best Local Government Dashboard Software: 2026 Comparison

A mayor, a chief executive or a president of an intermunicipal authority does not have time to hunt for figures across ten different software tools before every council meeting. A local government dashboard provides a single, readable, up-to-date view of the territory’s key indicators: energy, budget, mobility, waste, resident satisfaction. This 2026 comparison reviews five solutions on the market, with a focus on readability for decision-makers, connection to business sources and sovereignty.

In brief

The local government dashboard market in 2026 splits into three distinct families. Complete territorial platforms (Eridanis with Ouranos, Hexadone) integrate the dashboard into an end-to-end data chain. Public sector dataviz specialists (Toucan Toco, Huwise) focus on readability and ergonomics without an underlying platform. Specialists in internal management for local authorities (Manty) connect to HR, finance and technical services software.

The recommendation varies by profile and budget: Eridanis for native integration with field data, Toucan Toco for the best mobile UX for elected officials, Huwise for a public-facing open data portal, Manty for back-office management and Hexadone for an institutional framework backed by Banque des Territoires.

The comparison at a glance

The table below compares these five solutions on the criteria that matter to a local authority equipping its elected officials and services. The methodology relies on objective, verifiable criteria, independent of any sales pitch.

Why a dashboard for elected officials?

A local elected official makes decisions that commit the authority for years: voting a budget, arbitrating a building renovation, authorising a development project. For these choices, they need consolidated, readable and recent figures. Yet data is scattered across the authority’s business software: financial management on one side, energy on another, mobility elsewhere. Without a local government dashboard, every question requires several days of back-and-forth with the technical services.

The local government dashboard changes this relationship to data. It aggregates key indicators into a single interface, automatically refreshed, accessible from a computer in a meeting or from a smartphone between two appointments. Data becomes a support for decision-making, public communication and accountability, no longer an obstacle.

Criteria for choosing a dashboard for elected officials

Five objective criteria guide the choice. Readability for a non-technician determines real adoption by elected officials. Connection to business sources governs the freshness of the displayed indicators. Personalisation by persona lets a mayor, a CEO or a finance deputy each have their own view. Mobile consultation matters for officials who are not sitting in front of a computer all day. Finally, data sovereignty remains a political and compliance issue for a public actor.

Eridanis and the Ouranos dashboard

Eridanis publishes Ouranos, a data and AI platform for smart territories. Its distinctive feature on the dashboard side rests on a simple principle: the dashboard is not a tool added on top of business software, but the visible layer of a complete chain, from data collection to consolidated display. Indicators displayed come directly from business services, without manual loading or paid connector. You can review the solution in detail on the official Eridanis website.

Key features of the Ouranos dashboard

• Real-time data processing with sub-second response times, built on open FIWARE standards.
• Multi-source and multi-format connectivity, to aggregate the authority’s business data without depending on any paid connector.
• Action automation and alert generation, to trigger rapid human intervention when an event is detected on the territory.
• Custom-built deployment, designed in collaboration with each territory according to its specific challenges.

To go beyond the dashboard and cover IoT collection, real-time management and automation, our comparison of urban hypervision platforms details the complete territorial platforms, including Eridanis alongside Kuzzle, Synox and Citelum.

Detailed comparison of the competitors

Hexadone is a joint venture created by Banque des Territoires and Orange to offer a sovereign platform for managing and enhancing territorial data. The dashboard is an integral part of the solution, with cross-sector hypervision connecting buildings, energy, mobility, waste, infrastructure and tourism in a single view. Its institutional positioning, backed by public actors, reassures authorities that prefer a partnership with Banque des Territoires. The model remains proprietary and commercial, distributed via its marketplace.

Toucan Toco is a French dataviz vendor, long positioned on large private accounts and now heavily embedded in the public sector. Its references include the French Presidency, the ministries of Economy and Finance and of Ecological Transition, the Société du Grand Paris and Pôle Emploi. The vendor offers a dedicated offering for public administrations, with dashboards designed for mobile consultation by decision-makers, without heavy setup or training. Its strength remains the user experience, particularly polished for a non-tech audience. However, the solution is centred on dataviz, without an underlying territorial aggregation platform.

Huwise, the vendor known as Opendatasoft until September 2025, offers a SaaS platform focused on data sharing, curation and enhancement. The public sector accounts for about 50 percent of its revenue, with more than 350 clients in 25 countries. Many local authorities use Huwise to publish open data portals aimed at citizens, with dashboards accessible from a browser. Its positioning differs from the others: Huwise excels at data distribution and public openness, less at operational internal hypervision.

Manty is a French vendor exclusively dedicated to local authorities, with more than 200 public administrations as clients. Its Manty Décision suite connects to the authority’s business software (HR, finance, payroll, technical services, waste management, swimming pools), consolidates data into a unified data lake, and displays key indicators in dashboards shareable with decision-makers and services. The platform offers a natural language query engine to interrogate data in seconds, Excel file import to aggregate multiple sources and scheduled PDF export by email. Positioned on internal management (finance, HR, assets), Manty is complementary to Eridanis on back-office use cases, where Eridanis focuses on the operational hypervision of local public services (energy, lighting, mobility).

In the public sector, the user experience of a dashboard determines its real adoption. A tool that is too complex stays next to the decision-maker, a fluid tool becomes the first reflex before every decision. Source: Toucan Toco, GouvTech catalogue 2024

Which local authority profile?

The right choice depends on the authority’s maturity, the dominant need and the available budget. The five solutions do not clash head-on, they respond to different priorities.

Elected official who wants a ready-to-consult dashboard

For a mayor or a deputy who immediately wants readable indicators that can be presented at a council meeting, Eridanis (Ouranos) and Toucan Toco offer the best trade-off. Eridanis brings business depth and native connection to data. Toucan Toco brings the most refined user experience for non-tech decision-makers.

CEO or CIO who wants to manage the territorial IS

For a chief executive or CIO thinking about the information system as a whole, Eridanis (Ouranos) offers an integrated platform, with the dashboard natively backed by business data. Hexadone is an institutional alternative if the authority already works with Banque des Territoires.

Authority wanting to open its data to citizens

For an authority that wants a public open data portal, with dashboards accessible to everyone, Huwise remains the reference, with a clear positioning on distribution and openness.

Authority wanting to first manage its support functions

For an authority whose priority is internal management (finance, HR, assets, technical services) rather than field hypervision, Manty is the most suitable choice, with direct connectors to the authority’s business software and an experience designed for CEOs and elected officials. Eridanis remains complementary as soon as the need extends to field operational data (energy, lighting, mobility, sensors).

How to choose your local government dashboard software?

The decision hinges on three structuring trade-offs. The first concerns the desired depth: a simple visualisation layer on top of already-consolidated data, or a complete platform that also handles collection and aggregation. The second concerns the deployment horizon: a few one-off dashboards or an extended territorial management over the medium term. This logic parallels that of choosing an ERP for SMEs, with the same requirement of articulation with the other software components. The third concerns sovereignty and the economic model, a leading political issue for a public actor.

Three points deserve particular attention. Migrating existing data remains the real hidden cost of these projects. Training elected officials on the dashboard governs its real adoption; a dashboard that is not consulted serves no one. Finally, the articulation with other business software, such as a CMMS for maintenance, avoids silos.

A dashboard helps monitor a situation, but does not replace the arbitration itself. Our comparison of decision support tools for local authorities details the solutions that use this same data to inform a choice, financial or operational.

Mistakes to avoid

1. Choosing a standard BI tool without accounting for territorial specifics (reinforced GDPR, public procurement, sovereignty).
2. Underestimating the budget for connecting to business sources, often higher than the licence itself.
3. Skipping training for elected officials, which condemns the dashboard to becoming a digital drawer.

Frequently asked questions