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Objective Corporation reports major growth in Canberra

Objective Corporation, a supplier of enterprise knowledge management software, today announced major growth in its Canberra operations due to continuing success in the government sector.

Over the last 12 months the Company, which recently listed on the ASX, has secured contracts valued at over $15 million with federal government clients. These clients include the Federal Attorney General's Department, IP Australia, the Department of Transport and Regional Services and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

Objective Corporation is also working with the Department of Defence where its Objective knowledge management solutions are being implemented for up to 50,000 users.

In order to support the growth in government business, Objective Corporation's Canberra staff has grown from four to 20 in just 12 months.

New senior recruits include branch manager Jim Farrer, formerly an operations manager with Ball Aerospace Australia. Jim has professional services and project management experience and manages sales and consulting activities undertaken in the ACT Region. Also new to the company's Canberra team is Ian McTaggart, an information and knowledge management specialist with experience at the Australian Defence Headquarters, Computer Sciences Corporation and Andersen Consulting.

The company has moved to larger premises in the St George Centre in Marcus Clarke
Street, to accommodate its expanded staff.

"Stringent record keeping regulations for government bodies and an increasing desire to leverage latent corporate intellectual assets are driving the government market for knowledge management solutions," said Adrian Rudman, General Manager - Australia, Objective Corporation.

"Objective has become the knowledge management solution of choice for many government bodies. This is because the software has a real point of difference by operating on an enterprise scale to cover records, electronic documents, email, web content and work-flow management with a single product suite.

"The product's capabilities are supported by our company's valuable experience in the government sector," said Mr Rudman.

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