Entrepreneur Magazine has published 200 Ways to be More Productive in Life, and in Business and Tip No. 183 says to Let Employees Make Their Own Choices.  It states that many leaders wrongly believe that they have to control everything that happens in their organization. “After all, they are ultimately responsible–to themselves, to their board, to their stockholders and to their stakeholders–for the outcomes. But total control curbs enthusiasm, decreases morale, diminishes independent thought, and ultimately squelches productivity–the exact opposite reaction leaders are looking for.”
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“Adding Laserfiche to SharePoint Server 2010 helps accelerate deployment, simplify workflow design and minimize the need for customization and development,” said Meera Mehta, director of SharePoint Partner Marketing at Microsoft Corp. “It offers customers an easy way to achieve enhanced productivity using SharePoint Server 2010.”

Laserfiche’s support for SharePoint Server 2010 maximizes the strengths of both systems. SharePoint Server 2010 provides a unified business collaboration platform, while Laserfiche provides document imaging and turnkey transactional content management for core business processes.

Whether you already have SharePoint, already have Laserfiche, or don’t have either Meera Mehta’s words are powerful:

1) Accelerate deployment

2) Simplify workflow design

3) Minimize the need for customization and development

So if your organization finds itself looking for ways to leverage SharePoint in accounts payable, case management, contract management, HR onboarding or other critical business processes, visit our Agile ECM page to learn how Laserfiche can help.

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The purpose of our group is to provide and promote best practices to Hampton Roads Laserfiche Users so that we can more efficiently and effectively meet the needs of our customers.
Hampton Roads User Group Mission Statement

User Groups have become the rage with Laserfiche, and thank goodness! What an invaluable resource for learning more about this information technology specialty, keeping up with your network (‘cause there’s never enough time!) and maybe even offering some of your time and talent to provide leadership for your group.
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Every time I write one of these blogs, they’re always popular. People like to see all the creative ways that Laserfiche customers are using their systems to stretch their budget dollars as far as possible – especially in today’s difficult economic climate.
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I just set up my first Quick Fields session using Real Time Lookup and it was so amazingly easy! The lookup process is very easy to use if you’ve dealt at all with ODBC Data Sources. Once I had my ODBC data source set up to know what database on what network drive, the rest was simply a matter of knowing the data and where it goes on the document template. I was even able to go to the ODBC data sources configuration from within the Quick Fields window, instead of having to go through Control Panel. The wizard walked me all the way through with no trouble at all.
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The beauty of Ghana lies in its people. I was fortunate to learn this lesson first-hand from Joseph Amoh-Anti and the Josanti team as the Laserfiche Institute took its longest “road” trip yet, to West Africa.
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In Central Virginia, our Laserfiche User Group is moving right along! In fact, the Central Virginia Regional Laserfiche User Group is meeting Wednesday, September 30th at 1:00 pm at the Albemarle County Office Building. This meeting will feature speakers from the Library of Virginia, who will give a presentation and field questions about records management for local governments and state agencies.

Training will cover electronic records, both scanned documents as well as other electronically stored records (such as databases, Word files, Excel, etc). Retention and destruction requirements and using the retention schedules will all be included as well.
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This past Thursday, August 20, 2009, the Hampton Roads “chapter” of Laserfiche User Groups hosted its third successful meeting, and we showed no indications that we will be slowing down any time soon.

In typical fashion, the meeting provided those 3 key elements to the success of everything: food, folks, and fun. But in the midst of all of this frivolity, a lot of information was shared, too.
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On March 3, the building housing Cologne’s historical archive collapsed into a nearby metro tunnel.

The actual degree of damage to the historical documents housed in the building is still unknown, with a substantial part of the written records of the city’s history believed to have been destroyed. In fact, recent accounts estimate that 90% of the archive’s records were buried in the collapse and may not be recoverable. The archive’s director estimates that they’ve only digitized a “tiny fraction” of their holdings, which includes the private estate of Nobel Prize-winning author Heinrich Boell.
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I was watching the series finale of “ER” last night, which normally wouldn’t make you think of Laserfiche. But as I watched an intern escort a group of medical students around, and as he stopped at the paper chart holder and explained how their paper-based workflow worked (or didn’t, as the case may be), I couldn’t help but think …

Wouldn’t this be a lot easier with a document management system?
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One of the things we get asked a lot is “How much money can I really save with Laserfiche?” We have two great white papers that show the possibilities – one for financial services and one for healthcare - but, as usual, our customers’ success stories speak for themselves.

We have so many customers out there who use Laserfiche in innovative and creative ways to make their budgets stretch as far as possible. Here are some examples.

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The budget crunch is upon all of us, and, as a result, we’re all looking at where the little efficiencies are to stretch our existing dollars as far as possible. With Laserfiche there are many aspects to consider when making decisions.

Repositories and licenses cost money. So does scanning. How can we best use our existing resources?
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What a great time we all had as interested members from 9 different cities converged at the Norfolk City Hall conference room for the kick-off of our newly formed Hampton Roads User Group. For those who might be reading this from outside of Virginia, I’ll tell you that Hampton Roads is a geographic area comprised of many cities and counties along the southeastern shoreline of Virginia. More information about our little “neighborhood” can be found here.
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