2004 Press Releases

Date: 20 January 2004

New Zealand's Land Transport Safety Authority selects Objective for enterprise-wide document management

Objective Corporation (ASX:OCL) today announced it had been awarded a contract from New Zealand's Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA), Te Mana Marutau Waka Whenua o Aotearoa, to supply a 600-user Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) to assist the organisation improve efficiency and its ability to manage knowledge.

LTSA is charged with promoting safety in land transport for New Zealand's citizens. It investigates road accidents and incidents, recommends improvements to the road environment and manages the land transport register such as road user charges, vehicle licensing and registration, driver licensing and operator licensing. It develops and implements policy and legislation to meet its over-riding purpose - to reduce injury and death on New Zealand roads.

The LTSA employs around 600 staff in 10 office locations around the country. It works closely with several other agencies, including the New Zealand Police, Transit New Zealand, the Ministry of Transport, the Accident Compensation Corporation, local authorities and the Road Safety Trust.

Managing the information that flows between these disparate groups and feeding it back into policy development to achieve the LTSA's purpose is a massive task.

Noel Lee, Corporate Services Manager, LTSA said: "We knew that by providing our staff with a solution where they could better access, retrieve and share information we would create a means to harness the knowledge gathered in the course of their work. By feeding this back into our policy development, ultimately we will be better able to achieve our purpose of reducing injury and deaths on New Zealand roads.

"In addition to improving information management we wanted to automate both routine and ad-hoc business processes to improve organisational efficiency.

"We also needed a solution to help ensure compliance with increasingly stringent recordkeeping legislation, such as the Archives Act (1952), the Privacy Act (1993), the NZGLS, the metadata standard for e-Government and the proposed Public Records Bill," said Mr Lee.

Following a public tender and evaluation of all solutions on offer in the New Zealand market, the LTSA selected a solution from Objective, based on its ability to meet all of the LTSA's requirements.

"The EDMS will be used across the enterprise, by all staff, Objective's easy-to-learn and easy-to-use interface will ensure rapid user uptake and acceptance of the solution," said Mr Lee.

"The solution will underpin all of the LTSA's business functions and processes. Objective's breadth of functionality and proven ability in delivering specific business applications was viewed favourably.

"Additionally, with recordkeeping functionality embedded into the Objective solution, the burden of complying with legislation and statutory requirements will be greatly reduced.

"Records Management becomes a routine part of all business transactions rather than an additional workload placed on users, freeing staff to concentrate on their fields of specialisation. Users simply follow the default options, and compliant recordkeeping occurs in the background, virtually automatically," said Mr Lee.

Mr Tony Walls, CEO Asia Pacific, Objective Corporation said: "Being able to welcome New Zealand's LTSA to our growing user community within a month of opening of our Wellington office is very gratifying. It is a further indication of genuine demand in New Zealand for our solutions and Objective's favourable position in addressing this market.

LTSA is Objective Corporation's third major customer in New Zealand; existing customers include the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development and Archives New Zealand.

About New Zealand's Land Transport Safety Authority

New Zealand's Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) is a Crown Entity charged with promoting land transport safety at reasonable cost.

The purpose of the LTSA is to reduce death and injury on our roads and rail systems through activities which promote safety at reasonable cost.

	Responsibility for safer people, vehicles and operators:
	- entering the road or rail system
	- operating within it
	Promoting improvements in the roading environment
	Ensuring compliance with safety standards
	Providing safety information and advice and fostering education programmes
	Conducting regular reviews of both rail and road systems
	Investigating and reviewing land transport accidents and incidents
	Creating and managing information databases on road user charges, vehicle licensing and registration, driver licensing and operator licensing