News | September 30, 2003

Australia's Department of Defence Chooses FileNet Forms Manager as eForms Standard

Source: FileNet Corporation
COSTA MESA, Calif. - September 29, 2003 - FileNet Corporation (Nasdaq: FILE), the leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, announced today that the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has signed a contract with FileNet ValueNet partner Robert Barnett and Associates Pty. Ltd., valued at nearly $500,000 for FileNet Forms Manager software.

The Australian DoD supports the Australian Defence Force (ADF), which defends Australia and its national interests. The Defence organization is made up of more than 50,000 full-time members of the Navy, Army and Air Force; more than 20,000 active reserve or part-time military members, and 16,000 civilian staff.

The Australian DoD will migrate all of its current forms from its legacy forms management application to FileNet Forms Manager and educate users on the advantages of the new technology over limitations of the existing installation noted by the DoD. FileNet's Forms Manager software will be used as a standard for all electronic forms throughout the DoD as well as the production of pre-press files for those forms that need to be printed.

FileNet Forms Manager is designed to ease the creation, deployment, processing and management of electronic forms (eForms) that serve the same function as paper forms, yet are more advanced, easier to use, and more cost effective. FileNet Forms Manager helps businesses quickly transform cumbersome paper forms into fully interactive eForms that directly connect to applications that drive business processes - reducing costly errors, streamlining operations and increasing overall customer responsiveness.

"We believe FileNet's next-generation offering for electronic forms management, FileNet Forms Manager, will help continue to drive efficiencies at the DoD and will complement the department's existing FileNet ECM solution, which includes FileNet's content and process management technology," said Dave Caldeira vice president, product marketing, FileNet Corp. "FileNet products have been in use for the past 18 years at the Australian DoD and are the choice of more than 900 government entities worldwide," added Caldeira.

About FileNet
FileNet Corporation (NASDAQ: FILE) helps organizations make better decisions by managing the content and processes that drive their business. FileNet's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions allow customers to build and sustain competitive advantage by managing content throughout their organizations, automating and streamlining their business processes, and providing the full spectrum of connectivity needed to simplify their critical and everyday decision-making.

FileNet ECM solutions deliver a comprehensive set of capabilities that integrate with existing information systems to provide cost-effective solutions that solve real-world business problems.

Since the Company's founding in 1982, more than 3,900 organizations, including 80 of the Fortune 100, have taken advantage of FileNet solutions for help in managing their mission-critical content and processes.

Headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Company markets its innovative ECM solutions in more than 90 countries through its own global sales, professional services and support organizations, as well as via its ValueNet(R) Partner network of resellers, system integrators and application developers.

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