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 & 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

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.