Primary Industries NZ tackles ECM with Cohesion
Intergen has won a $NZ12M contract with Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in New Zealand to provide its SharePoint-based cloud Enterprise Content Management (ECM) service ‘Cohesion’.
Provision of the service is cloud-based and charged as an annual fee. The contract with MPI is over a 6-year term and will commence immediately.
Cohesion is Empired’s proprietary electronic document and records management solution delivered as a service, developed predominately on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Cohesion was developed by Intergen who were recently acquired by Empired.
The contract with MPI is the third NZ Government ‘Cohesion’ contract to be awarded to Intergen (and now Empired) since being appointed to a panel of three suppliers approximately 12 months ago to provide ECM as a service to the New Zealand government.
Empired is exploring opportunities to provide the service to the Australian government, corporate and commercial sectors.
Empired Managing Director Roger Baskerville said, “This contract cements the decision by Intergen management to commit substantial resources over the previous three years in the development and positioning of the Cohesion service.
“We are confident that providing this service to MPI in New Zealand will provide exceptional credibility and competitive advantage as additional New Zealand Government departments elect to shift their Enterprise Content Management solutions into a cloud-based ‘as a service’ model under the panel contract.”
“Cohesion presents an exceptional opportunity to Empired: it is a proprietary, cloud-based service offering in a high growth market, built on Microsoft SharePoint. Empired is the largest Microsoft SharePoint developer in Australia and is well placed to leverage the Cohesion service into the Australian market.”
In closing, Mr Baskerville said, “We are delighted to have been selected by MPI to provide this service. We thank MPI for their trust and we look forward to working with MPI to deliver an exceptional outcome.”
“I would also like to thank all our staff that have been involved in working with the New Zealand Government and the development of the Cohesion service offering. This is an exceptional outcome and I look forward to Cohesion developing into the leading Enterprise Content Management service used across all of New Zealand Government during the coming years.”