The uCreate, uEngage and ePetitions solutions let public sector organisations streamline the collaboration and development process of key policies. It combines multi-channel publishing and management of citizen involvement through an integrated end-to-end collaborative portal. The three solutions streamline document creation and information gathering, ensuring corporate brand consistency across all content and delivery mechanisms.

Tony Walls, CEO, Objective Corporation, said: “Public sector organisations are under pressure to reduce costs, while maintaining the quality of their wide range of community services.

“We saw an opportunity to address this common problem in Australia and New Zealand. These Objective solutions deliver significant financial, social and political return on investment at a time when all government departments and authorities are striving to meet these challenges, while being encouraged to do more with less.”

“The uCreate and uEngage solutions are successfully deployed by over 250 public sector organisations in the UK and USA, and we are excited to bring these solutions and subsequent cost savings to our customers in the Australian and New Zealand market.”

The public sector produces an avalanche of documents every year, varying in scale from one page guidance leaflets through to policy and strategy reports comprising of thousands of pages. uCreate helps government to reduce time taken to produce these documents, critical when dealing with statutory timescales. The solution offers significant cost savings by reducing the cost of graphic design services. It raises design and production standards without a corresponding increase in cost and is a powerful capability to help authorities collaborate more effectively.

Consultations are an essential part of government activity today. uEngage and ePetitions will let local governments lower the barriers to better public and stakeholder engagement.

They increase the quality of consultee participation and produce more valuable results from consultation. A single view of all consultation and consultee information saves an authority time and makes it easy for both staff and the community to become more engaged.

Tony Walls said: “Our long-term strategy of focusing on the public sector in defined geographies was cemented by the successful acquisition of Limehouse in 2009.

“Launching uCreate, uEngage and ePetitions into the ANZ market expands Objective’s portfolio of applications that meet specific needs for the public sector.”