ScanDoc Ltd. in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has been approved as a Laserfiche value-added reseller in time to sell the software developer’s most anticipated and talked about suite of products ever, Laserfiche 8™. Full story »
Councilman Maurice “Mo” B. Hill and Councilwoman Melanie S. Donohue are the first Toms River, NJ, officials to take part in a program implemented by the township clerk’s office that has an ultimate goal of going paperless. The document management software, Laserfiche, lets records manager Greg Horback hyperlink ordinances, resolutions and accompanying background information for meeting agendas onto a flash drive, which Hill and Donohue then plug into their own personal laptop computers, forgoing the usual manila folders filled with papers. “This just makes it so much more efficient,” Donohue said.
Source: Ionia Sentinel-Standard
Out with the Old, In With the New
On Feb. 1, the Ionia office joined Eaton County, the state pioneers in going paperless, as well as Livingston County in filing case files electronically instead of by paper. “This has really changed the way we do business,” Ionia County Prosecutor Ron Schafer said. He said going paperless was one of his priorities when he was elected prosecutor of the county. As a result of the transition, everything from subpoenas, police reports and summaries typically filed in a paper folder and stored on in a filing cabinet are now all filed electronically using a computer software program called Laserfiche.
Picture this:
A client sits down in a financial advisor’s office to strategize. A decision is made. Suddenly, an electronic form pops up – completely filled out. The advisor signs it electronically and clicks submit. An email then pops up on the computer of the advisor’s OSJ who does a suitability check, signs it electronically and clicks submit. Automatically, the form goes to the back office of the advisor’s broker-dealer from which it is routed through various departments – electronically. Finally, it is electronically submitted to the clearing house for settlement. Ultimately, the form is stored in a central electronic filing cabinet at the broker-dealer where all interested parties, including the advisor and the client, have access to it. Through all this, nobody has picked up a pen or touched a piece of paper.
This is the “Straight-Through Processing” system developed and refined by Laserfiche, a world leader in document imaging. It is a scene being played out with increasing frequency throughout the country, according to Jeffrey Green, Laserfiche’s director of compliance. Full story »
The government of Tampico is seeking to offer more clear communication and transparency to the citizens of the State of Tampico by implementing Laserfiche, a supplier of digital solutions, supported by Expert Data, one of its main distributors of this software. Full story »
Excerpted from Purchasing Magazine
Security features and spend management/product use features caught most office technology buyers’ eyes at the AIIM/OnDemand printing technology trade show in Boston Last month. Major equipment manufacturers such as Xerox, Ricoh, Sharp, Konica Minolta and Canon all announced new products at the show, including software and multifunction products that demonstrate they hear buyers’ calls for new and innovative ways to control office spending. Full story »
Source: Securities Industry News
TFA Adds Last Piece of Paperless Platform
Transamerica Financial Advisors (TFA) is offering its brokers and advisers the TFA Synergy platform, which includes Laserfiche, to create a completely electronic office, from signing documents to managing them through the approval process, saving resources and even providing a solution for forthcoming annuity reporting requirements. “After 20 years in the business, I can’t recall anything that’s gotten me so excited,” said Joe Brinker, president of Havertown,Pa.- based Brinker Organization and supervisor for 20 independent contractor affiliates of TFA. Brinker and his advisers use the platform for imaging, document management and workflow, new accounts, and compliance functionality, including a tool that automatically provides documents for specific transactions. Anthony Petsis, principal of Anthony Petsis & Associates, another Transamerica affiliate, said that clients no longer need to be put on hold. “Now we pull up an imaged copy of the change form and see it’s been countersigned. And we can see when we last spoke to the client and whether it may be time to talk again.”
Excerpted from Computer User magazine
Laserfiche®, a premiere electronic document management provider previewed Workflow 8 at the FOSE show in Washington, DC. Stephen Hall, Laserfiche’s Regional Manager for the Southeast Region, who represented Laserfiche at the conference, said Workflow 8 is powerful, yet very flexible and easy to work with. He added that Laserfiche’s government resellers are excited to install it for key government customers. John Montel of General Dynamics Information Technology, a leading reseller in the federal government market, is currently working on opportunities that include thousands of users, and he says that Workflow 8 is a phenomenal product.
By Ken Stewart, excerpted from ChangeForce
Stewart said that over at Office Product News, they just posted a press release from Laserfiche® stating the company helped some 25,000 organizations save 117 million trees. The release reads as follows: Conservatively, Laserfiche estimates that the installation of its enterprise software has resulted in the elimination of 500,000 pages of paper documents, on average, in each organization-or some 1 trillion pages total. Full story »
An effort is underway at the Amador Water Agency to scan thousands of pages into a modern, state-of-the-art document storage system. When complete, every scrap of paper that ever crossed a desk at the agency will be available for perusal by staff or qualified public with the click of a mouse. Full story »
Transamerica Financial Advisors (TFA) is offering its brokers and advisers the tools to create a completely electronic office, from signing documents to managing them through the approval process. But while the TFA Synergy platform –possibly the first such service from a brokerage catering to independent contractors –saves resources and provides a solution for forthcoming variable annuity reporting requirements, it doesn’t mean paper is disappearing anytime soon. For financial advisory services, the paperless office represents a major change. “After 20 years in the business, I can’t recall anything that’s gotten me so excited,” said Joe Brinker, president of Havertown, Pa.-based Brinker Organization and supervisor for 20 independent contractor affiliates of TFA. Full story »
WASHINGTON, DC (BUSINESS WIRE) —-FOSE 2008 takes place April 1-3, 2008 in Washington DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Listed below are the FOSE 2008 exhibitor profiles. For in-depth information about FOSE 2008, visit http://www.fose.com.
Greenville Federal Credit Union has just finished beta-testing the Laser Check System from Millennial Vision, Inc., a value-added reseller of Laserfiche document imaging software. Now the $90 million CU can store electronic check receipts and CD documents without involving paper, and quickly retrieve them without having to dig through boxes.
Excerpted from Securities Industry News
In search of added revenue, the largest correspondent clearing firms are working to extend their technology know-how across their clients’ broader businesses, and potentially become a consulting and technology source for non-clearing customers as well. Full story »
Source: The Drucker Institute
Institute Director Shares Peter Drucker’s Lessons on Information and Knowledge in an Ever-Changing World
Drucker Institute director Rick Wartzman was featured as a keynote speaker at the 2008 Laserfiche Institute Conference, where he shared lessons from Peter Drucker on information and knowledge in an ever-changing world. The conference, sponsored by Laserfiche, a leading document, records and information management company, was attended by nearly 1,000 people. Among them were Laserfiche employees, resellers and customers.