Author Archive: Hobey Echlin

Level, Headed

Level Four Group avoids growing and audit pains using Laserfiche

March 21st, 2011

Level Four Group logoThe Level Four Group of companies consists of Level Four Group, a business consulting firm; Level Four Advisory Services, an SEC registered investment advisory firm; Level Four Insurance Services, a master general insurance agency; and Level Four Tax and Advisors, an accounting firm. Full story »

Turning a Millstone into a Milestone

When SEC registration and an audit loomed, Executive Money Managers looked to Laserfiche—and the future

February 25th, 2011

executive-money-managersExecutive Money Managers, Inc. (EMM) is a referral-only, boutique investment advisor firm based in Marietta, GA. By 2005, the growth of its business intersected with the growth of its information management challenges. Full story »

Making AP Processing Less of a Process

Waco, TX, ISD’s Accounting and Payroll Departments look to Laserfiche to streamline and save time

February 24th, 2011

The Waco, TX, Independent School District (WISDWISD logo) serves over 15,000 students across 32 campuses. For WISD’s Accounting Department, that means cutting 300-400 checks a week to vendors and agencies serving the district, as well as handling the information management needs that come along with AP processing for a mid-size ISD like Waco. Full story »

February VAR of the Month: Gordon Flesch, Inc.

Gordon Flesch, Inc. lands Rio upgrade, Quick Fields integration and Avante with WebLink public portal deals

February 15th, 2011

Gordon Flesch, Inc. (GFC), based in Madison, WI, with branch offices in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, has already earned 60% of its total sales revenue from last year. Full story »

1,000-User Rio Deal Helps MC Imaging Win Q4 2010 Laserfiche Top Achiever Award

MC Imaging increased sales by more than 200% over Q4 2009

February 14th, 2011

lf_top_achiever_logo_qtr4Laserfiche is pleased to announce MC Imaging Technologies, headquartered in London, Ontario, as the winner of the Laserfiche Top Achiever Award for Q4 2010. Full story »

User-Friendly, Departmentally-Flexible, Globally-Applicable

Using Laserfiche Rio, ECOM evolves a local need for EDMS into a global ECM standard

January 27th, 2011

ecomECOM is a global commodities company headquartered in Dallas, TX, trading cocoa, cotton and coffee between 40 offices in 30 countries. “Columbia, Chile, Honduras, all the i-stans—if they’re growing an agricultural product, we’re there,” says Willa Zandi, IT Director. The Dallas office, for instance, is the company’s hub for cotton trading.
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January VAR of the Month: DynaSource

January 15th, 2011

DynaSource+LogoDynaSource, based in Nederland, TX, landed a deal last month for a Rio upgrade that expands Laserfiche use from one to all eleven healthcare agencies that comprise the East Texas Behavioral Health Network (ETBHN). Full story »

Clinical Trial, Critical Trial

South Essex Partnership NHS Trust saves $1.5 M standardizing on Laserfiche

January 13th, 2011

South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) is one of the largest and highest-performing national healthcare organizations in the United Kingdom. Providing services for people with mental health problems and learning disabilities, SEPT serves a population of 1.5 million across three counties, with over 3,500 employees and an operating a budget of more than $300 million. Full story »

Shared Service, Enterprise Benefits

Essar Group processes invoices faster using a Shared Service Center engineered with Laserfiche and SAP

January 7th, 2011

essarWith construction and mineral operations in more than 20 countries across five continents, the Essar Group employs 60,000 people in 63 companies, with annual revenues of $15 billion. In 2009, the Mumbai-based conglomerate initiated a plan to establish an enterprise-wide Shared Service Center to consolidate and automate finance and accounting processes across India. It looked to Laserfiche to serve as a foundational component of its agile ECM framework through an integration with its SAP–DMS system to support it. Full story »

.NET Gain

Agile ECM keeps Asset Dedication’s cloud-based business processes compliant

December 23rd, 2010

asset dedicationBrent Burns and Stephen Huxley founded Asset Dedication, LLC in 2002 with an innovative notion: that the liability-driven investment portfolios common in the institutional world could be engineered for individuals according to their specific income needs, akin to a personalized pension fund. In 2009, advancements in processor technology, coupled with the support of BondDesk Group, LLC, gave the Mill Valley, CA-based firm the opportunity to transition from consultants into a full-service sub-advisor offering individualized portfolio management to RIAs.

Key to this transition, Burns believed, was leveraging business technology to minimize both the operational and risk management costs of working directly with advisors. “As a growing company, technology was the way to get more done with a smaller headcount,” he says.
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December VAR of the Month: Datamax Technology Group

Datamax recently closed a deal with BenefitMall, to deploy to all 15 markets serving two million clients.

December 15th, 2010

Datamax Technology Group, based in Coppell, TX, has increased its staff 200% in the past year, adding business analysts and infrastructure specialists to support its consultative sales efforts. Full story »

“A Grand Story”

The Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians manages 500 contracts for its 12 businesses using Laserfiche Workflow

December 14th, 2010

ojibwe corp commission

From its Onamia, MN, headquarters, the Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians operates Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Grand Casino Hinckley, which includes hotels, convention centers, entertainment venues, a golf course, food and beverage venues, gift shops, an RV park, and a marina. In addition, the Corporate Commission operates an RV and auto shop, gas stations, a movie theater, a Subway franchise, and a wastewater management facility. “We have 12 separate businesses in all, spread out over 55 miles,” says Lance Dutcher, Systems Engineer for the Corporate Commission.
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A Natural Step toward EMR

Internal Medicine Center, LLC, initiates e-charting and automated test review using Laserfiche

November 29th, 2010

Internal Medicine Center, LLC (IMC), a multi-specialty practice with 20 providers, is the largest independent clinic in Mobile, AL. Established in 1946, it’s also the oldest, compiling over 60 years of patient records.

With so many specialties—and specialists—IMC’s Board of Directors wanted to use electronic medical records (EMR) software to improve operational processes, encouraged by the promise of ARRA stimulus money to help fund it. But IMC’s Practice Administrator, Christine L. Holliman, CMPE, took a more pragmatic view of the situation.

“All vendors talk about the efficiencies of an EMR and the increase in the levels of coding that can be achieved from full implementation,” she says. “As my physicians are many different ages, the idea of transitioning to a full-blown EMR was daunting, to say the least.” Full story »