One of the best school districts in Louisiana is using Laserfiche enterprise-wide to manage its mission-critical information, including student and teacher records, board of education minutes, financial transactions and property inventories.

Superintendent Frank Auderer says Laserfiche has become “an integral and indispensable part” of how the St. Bernard Parish K-12 School District, headquartered in Chalmette, LA, does business. He credits the thorough follow-up of Laserfiche reseller Allen Gilbert of Image Tek of Louisiana for the speedy implementation of Laserfiche district-wide.

“Public education today is burdened with more paperwork than ever before,” Auderer says. “Laserfiche has helped our staff minimize paper-shuffling and searching for documents while keeping us in compliance with local, state and federal requirements.”

The St. Bernard Parish School District was honored with Laserfiche’s Leadership Award, presented in New Orleans during the international Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) conference. Auderer and staff administrative assistant Sharon Campagna accepted the award, which recognized their quick application of digital archiving throughout the school district.

Major strengths of Laserfiche for IT managers are its ease of installation and maintenance, according to George H. Cancienne, Jr., the district’s computer systems manager. He says school administrators and office staff began using Laserfiche after brief training sessions, adding that the product’s intuitive interface has eliminated the need for additional training.

Cancienne has established scanning stations throughout school facilities to bring paper documents into Laserfiche. He has remotely installed Laserfiche on over ninety desktops, eliminating the need to go desk to desk. Reseller Allen Gilbert’s step-by-step assistance made this go smoothly, Cancienne adds.

Schools nationwide are under increasing financial and competitive pressure, Superintendent Auderer explains. He calls Laserfiche a “productivity tool” that has paid for itself with the ability to meet the challenges of delivering archived information instantly.

St. Bernard Parish School District includes fifteen elementary, middle and high schools. In addition to employing the latest technology, the district has undertaken a major facilities rehabilitation program to better serve its 5,000 students.

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