2002 Press Releases

Objective gains VERS certification from Public Record Office Victoria

Objective Corporation today announced the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) has certified its knowledge and process management solution, Objective 6i, against the Victorian Electronic Record Strategy (VERS) specification.

VERS is the framework of standards for archiving electronic records created or managed by the Victorian government. The standard is designed to ensure these records can be accessed and read at any point in the future, regardless of their origin, format or the software program that created them.

"The Victorian public sector is an important market for Objective," said Mr Tony Walls, CEO Asia Pacific for Objective Corporation. "Objective's significant investment in research and development to ensure that our products comply with Victorian government standards is testament to our commitment to this market. VERS capability is now an integral part of our product offering."

Objective 6i is the only single vendor and single product solution to gain certification from PROV. Further, Objective 6i is available for both web portal and traditional windows environments.

"A major advantage for Victorian government agencies is that the certification is against Objective's core product not a VERS specific, custom built system from multiple technology vendors," said Mr Walls.

According to Mr Walls, this presents agencies with two key benefits.

"First, the flexibility inherent within Objective 6i means that agencies can deploy solutions that meet their specific e-government requirements in the knowledge that any resultant records are managed in compliance with VERS standards.

"Secondly, the fact that no customisation of the core Objective product is required for a government agency to attain VERS compliance reduces the cost of deployment," said Mr Walls.

"Objective 6i's portal-based browser interface means that agencies deploying Objective across geographically dispersed sites or even those implementing business or citizen service portals can do so in compliance with VERS," said Mr Walls.

"With significant international presence, Objective will also help the VERS standard gain international visibility. Wherever possible, Objective will assist the Victorian government to maximise its return on investment in the VERS program."

Innovating with Objective 6i

Enabling organisations to archive electronic records in compliance with VERS standards is only one area of functionality addressed by Objective 6i, the product also offers much broader enterprise electronic document management, workflow, web content management and knowledge management capabilities.

Objective 6i enables organisations to manage, archive and dispose of records - both physical and electronic. It facilitates collaborative authoring, approval and publishing of any electronic object - word processing documents, emails, spreadsheets, web pages, project plans, graphics files, engineering drawings and more. Its workflow capabilities deliver the right information to the right people at the right time according to defined business rules.

Objective 6i delivers robust, highly secure technology which has proven capability and scalability to tens of thousands of users.

Delivering Solutions for Government

In addition to standards-compliant records management, Objective solutions are used by many government organisations around the globe for a broad variety of business applications including: government online, case file management, ministerial correspondence management, enterprise document & records management, process management, web content management and enterprise knowledge management.

"Objective solutions generally address a multitude of business problems for each customer," said Mr Walls, "however some of the benefits common to all include security, accountability and ubiquitous availability of information for sound decision making."

Meeting International Standards

"100 per cent of our business is focused on delivering solutions that help organisations solve the challenge of managing the proliferation of electronic information and knowledge that drive today's organisations," said Mr Walls

"Part of our ongoing commitment to our industry and our customers is to ensure that Objective's products enable organisations to comply with various state, national and international standards for recordkeeping, electronic document management and the move to providing government services online."

Gaining VERS certification is another achievement for Objective Corporation. Objective is approved by the UK Public Record Office, is certified in accordance with the US DOD 5015.2 STD for records management applications acquired by the US Department of Defense and has been developed to enable organisations to meet international standard, ISO 15489, Information and Documentation - Records Management.

Objective's software solution has been certified against VERS Specification 2, the Metadata Scheme. The company anticipates further certification against the remaining specifications (Specifications 1 and 3) in the near term.