LONG BEACH, CA (Laserfiche)—November 18, 2009—Laserfiche Founder and CEO Nien-Ling Wacker has just returned from a successful trip to Hong Kong, where she was interviewed on Bloomberg Television News – Asia Confidential With Bernie Lo about how to use Laserfiche to achieve a secure and efficient paperless office.

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LONG BEACH, CA (Laserfiche)—October 27, 2009—Laserfiche today announced that it has won one of the most esteemed honors in the UK’s content management space: a 2009 DM Award for Green Product of the Year. Laserfiche enterprise content management (ECM) solutions have enabled more than 27,000 organizations around the world to manage billions of electronic documents. Full story »

Maine’s state motto is “The Way Life Should Be,” and the City of Saco’s could well be “The Way Laserfiche Should Be.” Thanks to a commitment to user education and establishing an in-house Laserfiche administrator, city employees in every department have embraced an ecological and economical paradigm shift in how the city does business and offers services.

So much so that in just three years, Saco has set a standard for e-government so high that its regional neighbors are beginning to look into it as well.

So why has Saco been so successful? For starters, when City Administrator Rick Michaud and Saco’s IT staff looked into document management three years ago, they didn’t have a problem, they had a plan.
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When Banks Hardwoods, Inc. (BHI) was started in 1985, a single office housed its handful of employees in Elkhart, Indiana. In those days, expansion meant adding a manufacturing facility to kiln dry and plane the premium lumber it supplied to area builders.

Today, Banks Hardwoods has two manufacturing facilities in Michigan, another in Wisconsin, and a sales office in Arkansas employing upwards of 175 people. But as the business grew, says Dana Kennedy, Banks Hardwoods’ Controller, sawdust wasn’t the only wood by-product piling up around the organization.

“All this expansion means a huge amount of paperwork,” she says, “and the need for constant communication between the divisions.” When the company added its third division in Newberry, Michigan and saw a 20% increase in customers as a result, she felt the paper jam.
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Nestled along the Sheep River Valley in the heart of the Alberta Foothills, the town of Okotoks, AB, is the second-fastest growing community in Canada, with a 46 percent growth rate since 2001.

According to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Okotoks “can fairly call itself the greenest community in Canada, maybe the world,” as it is one of the first municipalities to establish growth targets balancing infrastructure development and environmental conservation. And true to its motto of “Historic Past, Sustainable Future,” Okotoks has received national and international recognition for its environmental initiatives, so it’s no surprise they turned to Laserfiche to reduce paper consumption. Full story »

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 »

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s mission is to “help people understand, enjoy and look after the natural environment.” So it’s no surprise that staff seek to minimize the natural resources they use at work. At the TRCA, however, they’ve gone beyond the paperless office. By utilizing Laserfiche® digital document management, TRCA staff have simplified work processes and improved access to critical information—all while advancing the cause of caring for the local environment. Full story »