The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) is deploying a knowledge management software solution from Knosys across 250 users within the organisation.
The deal follows the signing of an agreement with one of Knosys’ resellers for the deployment of the Knosys platform and a successful proof of concept (POC) implemented in June and evaluated by OPP during the following months.
Knosys says it expects the licence revenue from the contract to exceed $150,000 over a three-year period.
The OPP is Victoria’s largest criminal legal practice, prosecutes serious offences in Victoria’s County and Supreme Courts and conducts criminal appeals in the County Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court of Australia.
{loadposition peter}John Thompson, chief executive of Knosys, said, “The Knosys knowledge platform will help the OPP’s solicitors to better prepare and undertake legal cases both in and out of court”.
“This is being achieved via delivery of new and dynamic policy, procedure, research and training content to the legal practice. In concert with providing engaging content, Knosys tools are contextually presented in the form of decision trees, calculators, and process guidance.
“External content is contextually surfaced into the Knosys platform using Knosys’ market leading information virtualisation capabilities. Over 10 internal and external content sources will be integrated into the OPP’s Knosys platform. This will create a superior user experience for the OPP’s solicitors, with Knosys becoming the trusted one-stop-shop for knowledge, presented simply in a single Web user interface.”
Thompson said the implementation of Knosys at the OPP required no coding, no desktop/device deployment, and allowed the OPP to retire a legacy system in the process.
Knosys will be used at the OPP on desktops and on iPads, and Thompson says the mobile optimised user interface means that OPP solicitors will be able to call up the Knosys platform while in court to either refer to their case work, or quickly find the answer to a question “on-the-fly”.
“The OPP solution fits nicely with our updated strategy to focus on three verticals in the Australian and APAC markets, namely government/legal, telco and finance/banking,” Thompson said.
"By targeting key tactical opportunities, Knosys and our partners can demonstrate the effectiveness and value of the Knosys platform to our customers.
“Our intention is to work with partners to develop bundled knowledge based solutions which provide real productivity improvement and optimisation benefits. To support this strategy Knosys has recruited four additional sales and pre-sales resources to expand our push into the market.”