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Source: Computimes, The New Straits Times (page 4)

The three-year project, which is being undertaken by local information technology (IT) and consultancy company Imatera Digital Image Services Sdn Bhd (IDIS), involves the support and maintenance of the department's Mini-Computer-Assisted Land Survey System (CALS), and the upgrading and enhancement of its Cadaster Processing System (CPS)'s hardware and software.

Besides that, IDIS will be replacing the department's Mini-CALS main server, workstations and personal computers (PCs) to overcome the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem.

Secretary-general of the Land and Co-operative Development Ministry, Datuk Nik Mohd Zain Nik Yusof, said IDIS will also integrate Mini-CALS with the department's Cadastral Data Management System possible (SPDK), a system that was implemented in 1997 to assist its land surveying activities.

"Through the integration of SPDK and Mini-CALS, we hope to be able to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of both system to provide digital database which includes high quality survey and mapping services for management analysis," nik Mohd Zain told reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

He was speaking at the signing ceremony between the department and IDIS for the contract to support and maintain the department's Mini-CALS system.

At the signing ceremony the department was represented by Nik Mohd Zain and IDIS by its chairman Mohamed Amir Senawi. Land and Co-operative Development Minister Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam witnessed the event.

IDIS chief executive officer Md Zin Hassan said the agreement would require the company to support all the department's offices in 10 states nationwide, excluding Pahang and Johor.

"All these offices will be using similar systems and platforms. We have replaced all the hardware including the main server and workstations used previously for Mini-CALS to Sun Microsystems products," he said.

IDIS has supplied 20 units of Sun Enterprise 3000 Departmental Server for Database server, 10 units of Sun Ultra I 1/200E for Web Server, 10 units of Sun Ultra 1/170 for Network Management server, 36 units of Sun Ultra I Model 200E, 37 units of the Sun Ultra 10 workstations and more than 1,000 PCs for the department offices in the 10 States.

Md Zin also disclosed that in early September, IDIS intends to set up local offices in all the 10 States involved plus three branch offices in Butterworth and Johor Bahru.

"We will put our personnel in all the states involved in an effort to provide maximum services and simultaneously decrease the downtime."