Objective OpenGov ticks all the boxes for FOI requests and compliance

The Department of Treasury and Finance SA solved time sensitive challenges with an off-the-shelf, workflow automation solution

In a recent conversation with Vanessa Savic, State Account Director at Objective, Deanna Fleming, Manager of Records and Information Management at the Department of Treasury and Finance South Australia, shared how she is better managing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests through an Objective solution designed for exactly what she needed.

Managing FOIs is a complex process and as such, the agency was experiencing overdue requests and time-consuming manual escalations, therefore affecting compliance. Deanna was tasked with writing a workflow to solve the challenge.

This assignment would have taken around 12 months, a year that she would have preferred not to wait. Determined to find another way, Deanna looked at an off-the-shelf product, Objective OpenGov, to find a solution that would tick all the boxes.

Objective took care of the configuration and Deanna has been pleased with the results. From automatically connecting to Objective Connect for stakeholder engagement to redact connectors, everything the Department needs is in one place, saving loads of time. Objective OpenGov enables the Department to rapidly respond to FOIs as the workflow automation reduces time spent on administration and increases the number of responses processed. Additionally, a convenient dashboard provides all the reporting the Department needs to deliver to executives.

“If you bring all of that together, it just makes sense that this is the path that we would take, and then I’m not spending – or my team aren’t spending – all of our time developing and supporting a bespoke system where we can come to Objective and have support given to us.” Deanna Fleming.

“It just makes sense that this is the path that we would take, and then I’m not spending – or my team aren’t spending – all of our time developing and supporting a bespoke system where we can come to Objective and have support given to us.”

Deanna Fleming

Manager of Records and Information Management at the Department of Treasury and Finance South Australia


To learn about this customer success story in more detail, such as key outcomes Deanna wishes to achieve with the Objective OpenGov workflow, watch the video above.