National Superannuation Fund Limited (Nasfund), have moved a step closer towards their vision of being the first choice provider of superannuation and other financial services in Papua New Guinea.

Nasfund have selected Datec's Enterprise Document Management Solution as an ICT Solution that can support their business operations efficiency today and in the future through improved use of technology.

Nasfunds CEO Ian Tarutia has recommended the Datec ICT Solution to the Nasfund Board with the recognition of future proofing his business operations.

Mr Tarutia said "When I saw the Datec Solution in action, it answered a number of business needs for today and our future... Nasfund's focus is on innovation to ensure our customers receive the highest level of service. Complaince is a core focus for us too and the Datec DMS addresses this with ease. Another important decision factor for Nasfund was the on-the-ground support Datec offer."

My Tarutia continued: "We have an existing system that is inhibiting our business, we have made a decision to implement the Datec Document Management Solution as the features it offers are head and shoulders above the rest of the offerings in the PNG market today."Mr Sud said the ViciDocs Suite provides tools for digitization, scanning, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), image conversion, electronic workflow management, granular security levels, document archival and search and email management. Based on a robust, scalable architecture, ViciDocs comes in versions that can be deployed over Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks or the Internet.

The new offering is designed to address the fact that many companies provide better security for their office stationary than they do for their business critical documents. Very few businesses consider the money they lose through wasted time locating documents; unnecessarily repeating efforts by recreating documents because its easier than looking for the original; taking time and effort to work out which version of a document is the latest and wasting computing resources because documents are spread out everywhere – unnecessarily wasting storage space and network bandwidth, he said.

Additionally, businesses forget the risks they expose themselves to by not properly securing important information so unauthorized people do not have access; storing critical documents on laptops that could be stolen or lost; storing documents on network drives that do not go into the recycle bin when deleted but just disappear and the fact that most of the time there is no record of who has viewed or edited a document.

Recognition of the features of the solution and the fact that ViciDocs suite will be supported by a fully trained team of Papua New Guineans within Datec were a major attraction for the Nasfund team.