Rand Water Selects Faritec as EDMS Implementation Partner

Progressive, self-funding water utility Rand Water has selected Faritec as its Electronic Document Management System implementation partner. Faritec is a JSE-listed IT services and solutions company.

The IBM FileNet product was selected by Rand Water, as the backbone of Rand Water's ECM solution. Lebohang Moloi, Project Manager of Rand Water, says the company has tasked Faritec with implementing and customising IBM FileNet, a unified content, process and compliance environment which offers maximum operational flexibility, accelerates application deployment.

Faritec's Integrated Business Solutions Project Manager, Rob Zimmermann says the entire project centres around availability. "In addition to making information available to people, Rand Water is committed to achieving full compliance wherever necessary," he says. "By encapsulating intellectual property into its knowledge base using IBM FileNet, Rand Water is able to make the necessary information accessible, while simultaneously implementing processes which make it more agile in its response to change."

IBM FileNet combines content, process and connectivity to automate and streamline all records-based activities, eliminate unnecessary end-user participation, enforce compliance, and create business advantage through a compelling return on investment.

In addition, IBM FileNet infuses content management applications with process management. Launched by business events, collaborative content or records management applications can trigger additional workflows. With IBM FileNet, Rand Water will benefit from cleanly automated processes which can change as-and-when business conditions change.

Rand Water is committed to wise resource use, waste minimisation and an ongoing drive to conserve the environment. Its mission is to provide sustainable water services that will satisfy the current and future social, economic and cultural requirements of all who reside in the Gauteng area as well as other areas outside the Gauteng region such as parts of Mpumalanga, the North West and the Free State.

"We understand the importance of regulatory compliance and the need to enforce electronic document management policies and standards via process and technology rather than people," Moloi says. "Our objective is for Rand Water's business electronic document and enterprise content storage services to be driven by structured, time-tested and repeatable processes which are backed by sophisticated and scalable automation"

"Rand Water has every confidence in Faritec's ability to help us address today's new electronic document and enterprise content management challenges by implementing a solution which will manage the processes and content involved in compliance. ," concludes Moloi.