2001 ASX Announcements

Objective Corporation announces its next generation technology - Objective 6i

Objective Corporation (ASX:OCL) today launched the next generation of its knowledge and process management technology, Objective 6i.

Objective 6i extends Objective's traditional offering of electronic document management, records management for both physical and electronic records, web content management and workflow. The new release provides - for the first time - portal-based delivery of enterprise knowledge via a web browser. Accessing Objective 6i through a web browser facilitates server-based deployment of knowledge and process management throughout an organisation, decreasing support costs and increasing ease of use.

As well as a portal-based interface, Objective 6i also introduces online real-time collaboration, enhanced search facility, the ability to access information from other business systems or websites and knowledge discovery.

Single point of access to enterprise information
With Objective 6i users will be able to integrate disparate information systems, from line-of business systems to email, from corporate document repositories to data from relevant websites. The user experience is greatly simplified - no need to trawl through multiple applications and information sources - all corporate knowledge is available via a single point of access.

Meeting the needs of the global market, Objective 6i also features multilingual support including Asian languages that require multi-byte characters.

"Objective 6i is a significant milestone for the company," said Tony Walls, CEO Asia Pacific, Objective Corporation. "Objective 6i now provides the broadest knowledge management suite on the market and clearly positions Objective Corporation as a definitive leader in the knowledge management market.

"In keeping with Objective's original vision, Objective 6i is a richly functional single product solution, built on our robust and highly secure server technology. "In accordance with our philosophy to protect our customers' investment in Objective solutions, all of our customers will be provided with Objective 6i which will be a simple upgrade for their existing Objective solutions."

The Objective solution addresses an array of business challenges for both public and private sector organisations including: case file management; bi-directional government and business portals; ministerial management for government; compliant recordkeeping systems; quality management and more. High profile Objective customers include the Department of Defence, Queensland Police Service, IP Australia and ResMed Ltd.

Market demand for portal interface

According to Objective, the development of a portal-based interface is based on strong market demand for true, zero footprint deployment of knowledge management solutions. Unique to Objective 6i is comprehensive support via both a traditional WindowsT interface and a portal based browser - to the same information repositories. When deployed as a portal, Objective 6i will offer organisations many advantages.

Assisting in streamlining the user experience is the introduction of "workplaces" and "themes". Workplaces can be customised, personalised or 'corporatised' to suit the role or multiple roles of users, provide users with their choice of interface or maintain a consistent corporate identity. Whether users are performing process-centric or knowledge-centric roles, Objective 6i can be customised to suit their requirements.