Objective lands $2.8 million deal

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software vendor Objective Corporation has been selected by the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA) to provide an enterprise-wide ECM offering to be used by 1500 people.

The contract was awarded under the preferred supplier panel for Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) across Western Australian government. The contract extends for a period of three years and represents a minimum value of approximately $2.8 million.

DAFWA’s role is to assist the State's Agriculture, Food and Fibre sector to be sustainable and profitable, through responsible management of the resource base, policy and regulation across all elements of the supply chain.

The new offerings will be deployed across the widely dispersed agency to twenty-two Regional Offices and research stations throughout the State. Objective will address six key business areas including policy and planning, bio security and research, industry and rural services, natural resource management, food and trade.

Tony Moran, director of Information Services at DAFWA, said: “We required a solution that could cater for the increasing diversity and volume of information types in use. The solution will support process and technology change required to deliver e-Government functionality and meet legislative requirements within the WA State Records Act 2000.”

Moran added Objective will make it easier to share information across DAFWA geographically and functionally dispersed environment, minimising the hours spent retrieving information from individual silos of information that exist across the business.