By Jereb Cheatham, Director, Laserfiche Institute

2008 Laserfiche Institute Conference:

The 2008 Laserfiche Institute Conference will coincide with the release of Laserfiche 8. In order to launch our biggest release ever at our biggest conference ever, we’re planning a single conference and expect to bring more than 1,000 members of the extended Laserfiche community together at one time. While most people are excited about the new features and functionality Laserfiche 8 will offer, there’s inevitably some concern about migrating to a new platform. To mitigate this concern, we’re significantly expanding our hands-on lab sessions and improving the way information is presented in all sessions. To accommodate the anticipated demand, we’re increasing lab capacity to 50 students, but we’re adding large flat screen monitors for every 3 laptops to make it much easier to follow along with the presenter. In the presentation sessions, we’re using four plasma screens in place of a single projector so there won’t be a bad seat in the room. We’re already planning the sessions to make sure customers who come to the conference find answers to all their questions about using, configuring and migrating to Laserfiche 8.

2007 Regional and Advanced Training:

The Institute has expanded its training initiatives this year, based on feedback from customers at the conference in January. We’re continuing to offer User and Administrator training throughout the country and we’ve introduced Advanced Training at the Laserfiche Training Center in Long Beach. Advanced Training offers customers the chance to increase their knowledge on specific subjects and holding the classes in Long Beach means the classes are taught by experts. The advanced training classes are a full day and we offer five different courses in a week so customers can make the best use of the trip. We offer pretty aggressive discounts to customers who register for multiple classes in a week. We’re also bringing the Institute on the road by partnering with Laserfiche resellers to offer our hands-on training at the user conferences they sponsor. The net effect of these initiatives is that we’re able to offer more classes in more locations, which should translate into more customers getting the training they’ve been asking for.

Training classes scheduled for the near future include:

More information about the classes offered by the Laserfiche Institute can be found at: http://www.laserfiche.com/support/index.html.

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