October 2011- Bay Technologies is pleased to announce that after a rigorous tender process, the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage has chosen MINCOR as their preferred Ministerial and Executive Document Tracking System solution for managing all ministerial and executive correspondence.

Bay Technologies (Bay), a leading Australian provider of enterprise compliance and governance solutions, has recently signed a contract with the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) to provide a Ministerial and Executive Document Tracking System, to replace their current manual processes. OEH have recently undergone a Machinery of Government (MOG) change, which saw the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water split up, with the Office of Environment and Heritage being incorporated into the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Bay's solution for OEH is based on the MINCOR product suite, and will initially be used to improve the efficiency of ministerial correspondence business processes. The implementation will coincide with a modernization of ministerial correspondence handling processes. This is to ensure that OEH are using the most up to date practices as well as taking full advantage of their new electronic system.

OEH's choice of MINCOR as the preferred Ministerial and Executive Document Tracking System will provide the Office with a centralised repository through which all correspondence will be processed. Additionally, it will enable detailed performance monitoring and reporting to be matched to internal key performance indicators and provide complete adherence to the relevant organisational and governmental records management policies.

The initial implementation is expected to be completed within 6 months of the tender announcement, however a long term partnership is expected as the solution has the capability to drive business efficiencies and cut costs across a number of other correspondence business processes.

Bay Technologies' CEO Mark Pickering was delighted with the outcome and said "Everyone at Bay is really excited with the prospect of welcoming another customer into the Correspondence Community of Practice that MINCOR has created. This outcome reaffirms Bay's position as the leading provider of Ministerial Correspondence Tracking Systems to Government Agencies in Australia. We have already started working in partnership with OEH to make sure they enjoy the same business benefits that all MINCOR customers realise."

Bay looks forward to a successful implementation project and a long term partnership with OEH.

For more informaiton on MINCOR please visit the MINCOR page here: http://www.baytech.com.au/products/mincor4.html.

For more informaiton about the Correspondence Community of Practice please see here: http://www.baytech.com.au/communities.html.

March 2011 - Bay is proud to announce an extension to its existing partnership with the New South Wales Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW).

The Department has elected to further extend the use of Bay’s CIRAM, Case and Investigation Management System, to augment and replace their current manual processes.

The licence extension comes off the back of an original purchase made by the Department of Water and energy NSW in mid 2009.

DECCW have undergone a large assessment of their current systems and processes in order to understand how to best satisfy their business requirements. This has been conducted across the entire regulatory operation of the department. The CIRAM implementation will see all of these 31 business groups managing and coordinating their processes within the new system. The initial roll out to these groups is slated for completion before July 2011.

DECCW is looking to the future regulatory challenges as it empowers its many departments to be are able to operate within their areas of concern while maintaining management cohesion across the group. CIRAM is seen as system well suited to assist with this.

Bay Technologies' CEO Mark Pickering was impressed with the alacrity with which the department was able to move and stated this move further reinforces the company's position as the leading provider of Case and Investigation Management Systems to Australian Government Environmental Regulators.

Bay looks forward to an even stronger and closer working partnership with the department into the future.

June 2011 - Bay has arrived home from a big week in Sydney where we exhibited at the CeBIT Australia 2011 Conference. Bay was fortunate enough to be chosen to exhibit on the ICT Suppliers to the Australia Government stand with six other exciting IT organisations. This gave us an unprecedented opportunity to show off our wares on a world stage. Bay was the only Queensland based company chosen to exhibit on the Australian Government Stand.

The conference was lively and offered many opportunities for networking, exhibiting and venturing out to view the world of emerging technologies.

From a company perspective CeBIT was a huge success; with MINCOR and CIRAM on the receiving end of a lot of interest from many government agencies. The central learning for the company was the emergence of Social Media (Twitter and Facebook) as a tool for governments to use to interact with and disperse information to the general public. We see this as validating the work being done within MINCOR to enable agencies to better manage the changing landscapes of communications.

All in all this was a really successful conference for Bay, we gained a lot out of our affiliation with the Australian Government stand and we are hoping to be able to participate again in the future.

July 2010 - Leading up to the end of financial year Bay has been able to secure contracts with two separate government bodies in Australia for the supply of Ministerial and Executive Correspondence Systems.

The two organisations - The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and The Western Australian Department for Child Protection (DCP) have both formed contracts with Bay to run projects to implement Bay’s Ministerial and Executive Correspondence application – MINCOR.

The deployment of MINCOR in both organisations will mean the strengthening and aligning of their current correspondence handling processes to the identified best practice processes within MINCOR. It will also mean that the departments are able to leverage the reporting suite within MINCOR, which allows for the extraction of performance based metrics and quantitative analysis of the performance of staff, workgroups, the department and a range of other measures.

Both organisations have expressed their interest in expanding the use of MINCOR to manage departmental correspondence processes, as well as Ministerial and Executive Correspondence. This is in line with a number of current MINCOR customers who use the system to manage correspondence and documents organisation wide.