Purpose
1. Automate secure reporting of housing program data to authorized external agencies and partners without manual export/import.
2. Ensure stakeholders receive automated updates, insights, and compliance data in real-time or scheduled intervals.
3. Facilitate automated downstream auditing and program performance tracking with minimal staff overhead.
4. Streamline multi-agency collaboration by automating the transfer of critical program KPIs, occupancy, and financial data.
Trigger Conditions
1. Scheduled timer (e.g., daily, weekly, or monthly automated batch).
2. New record entries, edits, deletions in housing management systems automatically trigger reporting.
3. Third-party API webhook requests to instantly automate data delivery.
4. Manual override event for ad-hoc automated report distribution.
5. Audit flag or compliance check results trigger automated sending.
Platform Variants
1. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Configure outbound messaging or Scheduled Flows with REST API custom objects for automated reporting.
2. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Automate with HTTP action trigger; push reports to SharePoint or external endpoint post-integrity check.
3. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automatic Zap deploys via webhook or App integration for API/CSV reporting to chosen destination.
4. Google Sheets API
• Feature/Setting: Use Apps Script or Scheduled Triggers for pushing automated reports to external APIs.
5. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Cloud automator function executes on timer or DynamoDB Stream event; invokes API Gateway delivery.
6. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: Automated HTTP connector pushes compliance or status data based on event grid events.
7. Mulesoft
• Feature/Setting: Automated flow uses APIKit to expose reporting endpoints mapped to stakeholder schema.
8. Workato
• Feature/Setting: Automated reporting recipes trigger on database update, forwarding data to REST API connectors.
9. Integromat (now Make)
• Feature/Setting: Automated scenario triggers on new housing data, HTTP module sends report file/API payload.
10. Boomi
• Feature/Setting: AtomSphere automated process maps low-income records and posts to partner’s API endpoint.
11. IBM App Connect
• Feature/Setting: Event flows automate extracting relevant data and sending automatedly via outbound API call.
12. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated Data Shuttle syncs reports out to partner-accessible SFTP/API.
13. Oracle Integration Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled or event-based integrations automate authorized delivery through REST API calls.
14. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: Tableau Webhooks or Extensions auto-push visualized reports to stakeholder URLs via API.
15. Quickbase
• Feature/Setting: Automator Pipelines trigger on form submission, sending JSON via POST to approved partner endpoint.
16. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automated Integration Recipes transfer filtered data via webhook/API to stakeholders.
17. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automated message action posts summarized housing data to private channel or external integration app.
18. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Butler Automation with Custom HTTP Requests sends board data update to reporting endpoint.
19. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Event-driven functions automate transformation and secure delivery to authorized API contact.
20. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Jira Automation rules trigger on issue transition/state change, pushing defined report JSON to partner API.
Benefits
1. Automated processes minimize manual labor and error, ensuring data is accurate and current.
2. Accelerate compliance and transparency through real-time automation and instant auditability.
3. Scale securely as new partners/agencies onboard for data reporting via API without new overhead.
4. Automate reporting frequency, content, and delivery method for each external stakeholder’s requirements.
5. Centralizes and standardizes reporting flow, reducing reliance on localized manual export/import.
6. Increases confidence and trust in the housing program by automatedly sharing validated, up-to-date data.
7. Facilitates cross-agency data automation for trend identification and collaborative program improvement.
Agency & Partner Integrations