A private company with extensive commercial experience

in North America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific

KE Software is a private company, founded in 1986 and owned by the principals and staff. KE has extensive commercial experience in Australia, North America, Europe and Asia and focuses exclusively on two markets:

Collections Management for Museums: KE EMu 

KE is the world’s leading provider of Collections Management systems and services for natural history museums, cultural history museums, art museums, herbaria, botanic gardens, archives and special collections. The company’s clients include the three largest museums in the world.  

KE provides a broad range of on-going services to all of its museum clients, including:

• Provision of expert advice to promote world’s best practice in museum collection management
• Software licences to the world’s leading collections management system, KE EMu
• Implementation and post-implementation services, including:

• Specification development
• Software configuration and customisation
• Installation
• Data migration of legacy data sources
• Integration with third party software
• Report development
• Training

• Web site development and web publication of collection material
• On-going maintenance including:

• On-line and telephone technical support
• Development and deployment of new enhanced versions of the software

Vital Statistics Agencies and Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages: KE Vitalware

KE boasts extensive expertise in the provision of management systems and related services to Vital Statistics Agencies. KE has been involved with vital records since 1988 when we developed a Registry Management System for the Australian state of Victoria. That system has been regularly enhanced and upgraded and is still in operation today.

KE has installed its Registry Management Software, KE Vitalware, in Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages in seven countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. KE has more vital records installations in operation than any other software vendor.

KE provides a broad range of on-going services to all of its Vital Statistics clients, including:

• Development of new features, services and products
• Enhancement of existing services
• Technical support
• Training and helpdesk support

KE Clients

KE products are available in most major markets in the world. There are over 6,000 licensed users of KE’s technology throughout North America , Europe , Australia and Asia.

KE’s Museum clients include:

• Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, DC, USA
• The Natural History Museum, London, UK
• Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, DC, USA
• American Museum of Natural History, NY, USA
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada
• Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, IL, USA
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, USA
• Carnegie Museum of Art, PA, USA
• National Museum of Australia, ACT, Australia
• Field Museum of Natural History, IL, USA
• National Gallery of Australia, ACT, Australia
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
• Peabody Museum of Natural History, CN, USA
• Manchester Museum, UK
• New York Botanical Garden, NY, USA
• Royal Academy of Music, London, UK

KE’s Vital Statistics clients include:

• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, VIC, Australia
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, NSW, Australia
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, QLD, Australia
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, TAS, Australia
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, New Zealand
• Mississippi Department of Health, Bureau of Public Health Statistics
• Manitoba Vital Statistics Agency
• Civil Registry, Trinidad and Tobago
• Justice Department, Samoa
• Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Nauru

A complete list of clients is available here.

Internal Quality Controls

KE has attained certification to the AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 standard for quality assurance. This standard is a superset of ISO 9002:2000. The team maintains an extensive quality policy, supported by a broad range of quality procedures and on-line and hard copy documentation, covering all aspects of product design and interaction with customers. Management is committed to and bound by the company’s quality system. This system influences all operations of the company and helps to ensure consistent, well designed and high quality products and services.