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NEWS RELEASE
PUSAT ZAKAT
SELANGOR SELECTS PERICOMSOLUTION2000 TO AUTOMATE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
Malaysia’s
renowned Center of Tithes for State of Selangor, to use PericomSolution2000
to allow effective management of its documents and streamline
internal processes
 Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia – May 2, 2003 – Pericom Group
of Companies, SEA (Pericom Imaging (M) Sdn Bhd), the market leader
in enterprise document imaging solutions today announced that its
PericomSolution2000 (PeriDOC) has been selected by Pusat Zakat
Selangor, to streamline the processing of state’s documents
received daily. Pusat Zakat Selangor, the renowned Center of Tithes
administers the collection of compulsory tithes, also known as
Zakat, distribution of Zakat to the poor, and serves millions of
its natives in Selangor, the most populated state in Malaysia.
PeriDOC,
a highly scalable and comprehensive document management solution
powered by Docuware, will initially be used to streamline Pusat
Zakat Selangor ’s General Administrative Office’ internal
processes, thereby eliminating the manual handling of paper documents
and significantly reducing the cost associated with paper processes.
The solution also enables its Customer Services Dept to effectively
capture, index, view and retrieve it documents, and maintain
as well as update statistics and information on tithes contributions
and contributors.
“By automating the document management processes,” said Mr. Zaharuddin
Kadiron, Head of Informative and Communications Technology Department, Pusat
Zakat Selangor, “not only can we reduce processing and paper costs,
it will also allow the processing staff to process state documents in a
fraction of time which will ultimately reduce the space constraints and easier
access to documents that we handled on a day-to-day basis. We are pleased
with the commitment provided by Pericom to help us to leverage on our existing
IT investments.”
“PeriDOC’s scalability and its open architecture, and Pericom’s
expertise in delivering comprehensive document management solutions provide Pusat
Zakat Selangor with a solution that will ease off the heavy paper workload and
offer multiple-user access to file and search cabinets in seconds “ said
Mr. Derek Lee, CEO, Pericom Group of Companies, SEA, “ We are very pleased
to announce this deal, as it shows how government institutions can meet the increasing
administrative and customer services demands by implementing today’s best-of-breed
business automation technology.”
About
Pericom:
Pericom is a Singapore-based corporation, which has been delivering
world-class, imaging solutions and services in Asia since 1987.
PericomSolution2000 is a complete, end-to-end, innovative solution
that meets all document imaging needs. This highly customized and
scalable value-added solution is backed by some of the world’s
leading and award winning document imaging software and hardware
vendors today. PeriocmSolution2000 has numerous installations in
Asia and is one of the leading innovators and providers of knowledge
management solutions today. For more information on PericomSolution2000
and its high-performing modules, please visit our website at
http://www.pericomimaging.com or
email
sinadmin@pericomimaging.com or
call tel:+65-65623756.
About
Pusat Zakat Selangor:
Pusat Zakat Selangor, based in the most populated state of Malaysia,
Selangor, is a state institution that administers the collection
and distribution of Zakat or compulsory tithes. Tithes are collected
from property that includes earnings from agriculture, animal husbandry,
gold and silver, salary and others earnings. Distribution of tithes
is made to the asnaf who qualify within the different categories
of asnaf. The institution also provides up to date information
on tithes distribution, calculations of tithes as well as statistics
on collection and distribution, and, serves the natives in the
state of Selangor, Malaysia. For more information on Pusat Zakat
Selangor, please visit
http://www.e-zakat.com.my
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