A New Zealand council is set to market a SharePoint-based platform for records management it has developed with a commercial partner.

New Zealand’s South Taranaki District Council has reportedly been working with Christchurch company Information Leadership (IL) to develop SharePoint into an electronic document and records management system.

The Taranaki Daily News reports the partners believe their solution can compete with commercial alternatives that cost $NZ300,000-500,000

Council IT and records manager Pete Sayers said the product would sell for $NZ230,000, (the exact amount it cost to develop) with South Taranaki District Council earning royalties on each licence sold. Microsoft provided a grant of $NZ70,000 to assist with the product’s development.

"The beauty is that other councils can get a custom-made product without doing all the work and spending the significant money that we have in getting to this point - and our ratepayers will get a small return for the investment they have made in the development of the product," he told The Taranaki Daily News.