Starting Tuesday, July 26, at 9:30 am PST, join Manager of Training Pieter Nauta to learn about the benefits of CPP certification, as well as what to expect when signing up for a course and how to get registered.

Topics covered include:

• An overview of CPP courses available, as well as future offerings.
• How to register for classes and what resources are available to you once you’ve registered.
• The material in each CPP course, so you can determine which classes best meet your needs.

Click here to register for this new Webinar and learn how CPP certification highlights your content-management know-how while giving others confidence in your dedication to doing business efficiently.

Learn more about Laserfiche’s Certified Professional Program and current course offerings.

The course introduces formalized methods of troubleshooting; third-party and Laserfiche tools to help identify problems; and the resources for correcting them. This certification course is recommended for anybody tasked with maintaining a Laserfiche system.

Click here to register for the Laserfiche Specialist, Troubleshooting course and to learn more about the prerequisites—or browse the CPP site to view all the certification courses Laserfiche has to offer.

Laserfiche is pleased to announce that a Laserfiche Specialist certification course and exam is now available through the Laserfiche Certified Professional Program.

This certification provides a comprehensive approach to working with content in the Laserfiche Client, and is designed for beginning and intermediate Laserfiche users. No prerequisites are necessary.

Specific topics covered include:

• Filing documents efficiently and intuitively.
• Working with digital documents.
• Finding relevant information quickly.
• Taking full advantage of the functionality of Laserfiche Snapshot and Laserfiche Scanning.

The fee for certification training materials is $100, which gives you access to:

• A series of short, self-paced training videos.
• A comprehensive training manual.
• Two opportunities to take the certification exam.

Be sure to visit the CPP site to register for your Laserfiche Specialist certification.

The current schedule is as follows, though more regional training sessions will be added:

• Long Beach, CA: April 12–15
• Seattle, WA: May 17–20
• Richmond, VA: June 7–10
• New Orleans, LA: July 12–15
• Minneapolis, MN: September 13–16
• Denver, CO: October 4–7

Day One – User Workshop: Each workshop kicks off with a free, one-day workshop that includes the most popular presentations and demos from January’s Laserfiche Institute Conference, as well as case study success stories from local Laserfiche Users.

Day Two – Using Laserfiche: Designed for beginning and intermediate users, this course ($350) teaches attendees how to effectively index, file and retrieve documents; use the scanning interface and image clean-up tools; design templates; and use Laserfiche Snapshot.

Day Three – Administering Laserfiche: Designed for intermediate to advanced users and administrators, this course ($450) covers all of the topics tested in the Laserfiche Administrator I Certification Exam, including: designing and managing metadata; administering Laserfiche Volumes; designing a security policy; implementing a backup plan; and troubleshooting the system.

Training sessions also include an optional fourth day of workshops for those interested in more advanced training in areas such as Implementing Laserfiche Workflow 8 and Implementing Laserfiche Quick Fields 8.

Check the Laserfiche community Website for additional offerings, including certification options through the Laserfiche Certified Professional Program. Attendees may register for any and/or all days of the training workshops.

Register today!

At Empower 2011, it was clear that the Laserfiche community understands the strength inherent in numbers. It was our largest conference ever, attracting 1,400 attendees in the form of VARs, customers, prospects, analysts, reporters and Laserfiche employees.

“In 2010, the members of the Laserfiche community showed real ingenuity and creativity in their use of agile ECM. We’re delighted by their achievements and honored they made the effort to attend the conference to share the secrets of their success with their peers,” said Nien-Ling during her keynote speech.

Reflecting on the Community’s Success in 2010

During the conference, many Laserfiche customers shared the amazing results agile ECM has helped them achieve. Here are just a few of the highlights:

• Using WebLink, the Long Beach Police Department has strengthened its gang injunction program. In 2010, gang-related murders in Long Beach were down 53.8% and gang shootings decreased by 13.5%. Jonathan Stafford, Administrator of LBPD’s Records & Technology Division, said, “Laserfiche allows us to deliver information to officers in the field in as few clicks as possible. The impact on gang activity has been huge.”
• Using Laserfiche, Durham County, NC, will reduce Workers’ Comp claims by millions of dollars over the next few years. “Because staff no longer has to transport heavy files to court or move heavy boxes to retrieve closed files, the risk for injuries, particularly back injuries, has been greatly reduced. Laserfiche will potentially mitigate Workers’ Compensation claims by millions in the next few years,” explained Nina Bullock, Administrative Assistant to the County Attorney.
• Pulte Mortgage, meanwhile, enables business continuity during harsh Colorado winters by giving its loan processors anywhere access to information using Web Access. “In the past, if we heard a snowstorm was coming, we’d move all the paper loan files that were due to close to a hotel and house our processors there until the storm had passed,” said CIO Gary Ives. “Giving them access to the information they need from home saves money and energy.”

In addition to individual organizations’ successes, the community as a whole had a productive year. The number of Laserfiche Luminaries expanded by 25%, the number of customer-led user groups multiplied to 30, and more than 15,500 people attended 385 Webinars over the course of the year. Nearly 50% of the top digital cities and counties in America are Laserfiche users, and hundreds of people have already certified their content management expertise through the Laserfiche Certified Professional Program.

Laserfiche itself had a busy year, supporting the launch of Laserfiche Strategic Services Canada, expanding its offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, releasing Laserfiche 8.2 and a new integration with Salesforce.com, and becoming the first (and, so far, only) ECM provider to achieve DoD 5015.2 certification for its integration with SharePoint 2010.

Looking Ahead

For Laserfiche, 2011 will be another year of growth. We’ll soon be opening a new domestic office, as well as sharpening our focus on Latin America and continuing to empower LFI’s success in the Pacific Rim.

In terms of the product roadmap, our developers are currently working on:

• Ensuring that Laserfiche provides a seamless mobile experience with innovations like the Laserfiche iPhone app.
• Expanding the number of pre-built activities included with Workflow.
• Making Laserfiche 8.3 compliant with Australia’s VERS certification requirements.

As she came to the end of her keynote speech, Nien-Ling quoted Winston Churchill: “We now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.”

“Successful financial advisors choose Laserfiche to meet their content management needs, and they want to hire people with a proven set of Laserfiche skills,” said Chris Wacker, senior vice president at Laserfiche. “We’re pleased to offer Texas Tech students the opportunity to learn best practices for using Laserfiche to ensure compliance and maximize efficiency within financial planning firms.”

Laserfiche will donate the use of its software, training materials and instructional resources to Texas Tech’s Personal Financial Planning Division free of charge through its Certified Professional Program (CPP). The CPP is designed to provide comprehensive online training in a number of specific areas, including system administration, business process management, records management and more.

“By adding Laserfiche to the curriculum, our students will gain a real-world understanding of how to digitize financial planning documents so that they are consistent, reliable, useful and accessible,” said Texas Tech Associate Professor Deena Katz, CFP. “They will also learn how to use Laserfiche to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements, giving them a concrete advantage when they enter the workforce.”

The first Professional Technology in Personal Financial Planning class to incorporate Laserfiche in the curriculum will begin this fall. Approximately 100 students will complete the certification program by the end of the school year.

About Laserfiche
Laserfiche creates simple and elegant enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, more than 28,000 organizations worldwide—including federal, state and local government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies—have used Laserfiche software to streamline document, records and business process management.

The Laserfiche ECM system gives financial advisors the ability to simplify regulatory compliance, improve profitability and limit exposure to civil and criminal liability. It allows advisors to prepare for audits more easily and ensure compliance with multiple state, SEC and FINRA regulations—all while accelerating business processes and making staff more efficient.

Laserfiche is a registered trademark of Compulink Management Center, Inc.

The Laserfiche Administrator I certification is vital for any IT professional who administers a Laserfiche system. IT professionals who have earned this certification have proven their ability to:

• Describe the topology of the Laserfiche system.
• Create and configure templates and fields.
• Create and support Laserfiche volumes.
• Implement and administer a security policy.
• Assist in the backing up and restoring of Laserfiche repositories.
• Troubleshoot the system.

To become a certified Laserfiche Administrator I, you must first pass a rigorous exam that proves that you have not only the requisite technical knowledge—but that you also know how to use it.

Are you up to the challenge? If you’re a Laserfiche administrator with experience, you could be.

We’re offering a special benefit to our conference attendees this January. Normally certification testing is $100, but we’re offering two exam sessions where conference attendees can test for the Laserfiche Administrator I certification for free.

There are only 50 seats available for each test session, so if you think you have what it takes, register for the conference today.

Questions? Contact Alex Wilson at awilson@laserfiche.com.

Certification classes will be offered online, at the annual Laserfiche Institute Conference and regional workshops, and at authorized Laserfiche training centers. Online classes will consist of a number of 5- to 15-minute online training videos, along with supporting exercises and quizzes.

Once you have completed the coursework required for a specific certification, you can take the multiple-choice certification exam. Testing will be administered on an ongoing basis for a $100 fee. If you do not pass an exam on your first try, there will be no charge to re-take the test.

Certification training will formally commence at our 2010 conference in January, where there will also be an overview session outlining next steps for participation.

For more information about the program, please contact Alex Wilson at awilson@laserfiche.com.

“With millions of Laserfiche users in more than 27,000 organizations worldwide, there is a great deal of demand for convenient ways for users to further develop their content management expertise,” said Nien-Ling Wacker, Laserfiche president and CEO. “We’re pleased to offer our entire community a simple, accessible way of achieving this goal.”

The Laserfiche Certified Professional Program is comprised of two tracks: one for engineers, and one for general users. The Technical Track consists of three Laserfiche Engineer certifications: Laserfiche Administrator I; Laserfiche Administrator II; and Laserfiche Integrator. The User track consists of three Laserfiche Specialist certifications: Capture; Records Management; and Business Process Management.

Certification classes will be offered online, at the annual Laserfiche Institute Conference and regional workshops, and at authorized Laserfiche training centers. Testing will be administered on an ongoing basis for a moderate fee. Certification training will formally commence at the company’s 2010 conference in January, where there will also be an overview session outlining next steps for participation.

“By offering a rigorous yet accessible certification program, we’re raising the bar for users who want to get every ounce of value out of their investment in Laserfiche,” said Alex Wilson, director of the Laserfiche Certified Professional Program. “This program makes it even easier for members of our community to surmount their organizations’ toughest content-related challenges and advance their careers.”

For more information about the Laserfiche Institute Conference, see http://www.laserfiche.com/conference.

About Laserfiche
Laserfiche® creates simple and elegant enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, more than 27,000 organizations worldwide have used Laserfiche software to streamline document, records and business process management.

The Laserfiche ECM system is designed to give IT managers central control over their information infrastructure, including standards, security and auditing, while still offering business units the flexibility to respond quickly to changing conditions. The Laserfiche product suite is built upon Microsoft® technologies to simplify system administration, supports Microsoft SQL and Oracle® platforms and features a seamless integration with Microsoft Office® applications and a two-way integration with SharePoint®.

Laserfiche distributes its software through a worldwide network of value-added resellers (VARs), who tailor solutions to clients’ individual needs. The Laserfiche VAR program has received the Five-Star rating from Computer Reseller News/VARBusiness magazine.

Laserfiche is a registered trademark of Compulink Management Center, Inc.

“Even during times of economic uncertainty, people recognize the importance of increasing productivity and efficiency,” said Nien-Ling Wacker, Laserfiche president and CEO. “Agile ECM plays a pivotal role in improving organizational effectiveness, and we’re very pleased to give our community the chance to share strategies for best leveraging Agile ECM.”

The conference will offer three full days of more than 60 technical training labs and comprehensive classes, including a number of courses offered as part of the new Laserfiche Certified Professional Program. More information about the new certification program will be available soon.

“Every year we try to improve the conference and offer a more personalized experience to attendees. This year we’ve expanded all of the tracks, added more best practices courses and made it easier for attendees to tailor their schedules to meet their needs,” said Laserfiche Institute Director Jereb Cheatham.

Close to a thousand members of the Laserfiche community are expected to attend Empower 2010, and the deadline for early registration is fast approaching. Learn more today at http://www.laserfiche.com/conference.

About Laserfiche
Laserfiche® creates simple and elegant enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, more than 27,000 organizations worldwide have used Laserfiche software to streamline document, records and business process management.

The Laserfiche ECM system is designed to give IT managers central control over their information infrastructure, including standards, security and auditing, while still offering business units the flexibility to respond quickly to changing conditions. The Laserfiche product suite is built upon Microsoft® technologies to simplify system administration, supports Microsoft SQL and Oracle® platforms and features a seamless integration with Microsoft Office® applications and a two-way integration with SharePoint®.

Laserfiche distributes its software through a worldwide network of value-added resellers (VARs), who tailor solutions to clients’ individual needs. The Laserfiche VAR program has received the Five-Star rating from Computer Reseller News/VARBusiness magazine.

Laserfiche is a registered trademark of Compulink Management Center, Inc.