New features include:

• A Search Web Part that provides a Laserfiche-like user interface when searching a repository in SharePoint.
• Improved support for multi-site integrations.
• Easier configuration of SharePoint search integrations.
• More options when importing a document from SharePoint into Laserfiche.
• Full DoD 5015.2 Certification for management of documents originating from a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 portal.

Note: The integration is only compatible with SharePoint 2010. Users running on SharePoint 2007 must upgrade to 2010 before using the integration.

Next Steps:

1. See a list of changes for Laserfiche SharePoint Integration 8.2.
2. Read about the release notes for Laserfiche SharePoint Integration 8.2.
3. Visit the Support Site for videos, forums, Knowledge Base articles and more.

The guide demonstrates the simplicity and value of integrating Laserfiche with SharePoint. A wealth of real-world examples, testimonials and screenshots from Laserfiche customers such as Emirates National Oil Company and Oklahoma Christian University outline how to rapidly deploy transactional content management, DoD 5015.2-certified records management and enterprise-wide search in collaboration with SharePoint.

Learn how easy it is to extend your existing platform with Laserfiche by accessing this free guide online.

Additionally, a new IT-focused Webinar concentrates on the easy-to-use CCA (composite content applications) creation tools within the Laserfiche SharePoint Integration. Entitled “Introduction to the SharePoint Integration: Creating High-Value Composite Content Applications,” this Webinar takes place on October 22 at 11:00 am PT.

Learn how our integration platform allows IT professionals and integrators to:

• Multiply ROI by quickly delivering multiple solutions for Case Management, AP Processing and HR Onboarding.
• Use simple GUI-driven configurations that match users’ existing Microsoft skill sets.
• Create a foundational component that immediately adds value through easy DoD 5015.2-certified records management, capture and archiving and transaction management.

For further information about the Laserfiche SharePoint integration, please contact Alex Wilson.

Introduced in 2009, the Laserfiche SharePoint Integration is a 100% Microsoft stack-driven, seamless two-way integration that immediately delivers concrete business value. Examples of how customers have used the integration to enable transactional content management and DoD 5015.2-certified records management within SharePoint are outlined in Laserfiche’s SharePoint Solutions Guide, available at booth #223.

“Our integration with SharePoint 2010 gives organizations an easy way to add DoD 5015.2-certified records management functionality to their SharePoint initiatives,” said Alex Wilson, Partner Director at Laserfiche. “With Laserfiche, documents are immediately accessible and secure, regardless of whether they come through SharePoint, scanners, fax servers, ERP systems, online forms, mobile devices or even digital cameras.”

Free massages for conference attendees reflect Laserfiche’s philosophy of providing stress-free transactional content management solutions for specific business problems like case management, accounts payable and contract management, among others.

Laserfiche will be on hand at booth #223 throughout the event to demonstrate the joint records management solution, provide free massages and distribute copies of its SharePoint Solutions Guide.

About Laserfiche
Since 1987, Laserfiche® has used its Run Smarter® philosophy to create simple and elegant enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. More than 30,000 organizations worldwide—including federal, state and local government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies—use 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 while still offering business units the flexibility to react quickly to changing conditions. The Laserfiche product suite is built on top of Microsoft® technologies to simplify system administration, supports the Microsoft SQL platform 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®, Run Smarter® and Compulink® are registered trademarks of Compulink Management Center, Inc.

“Well-planned corporate governance is essential,” said Alex Wilson, Partner Director at Laserfiche. “By integrating fully-certified records management with SharePoint, Laserfiche enables Microsoft partners to deliver solutions that support employee collaboration, ensure executive accountability and drive better business outcomes.”

During the presentation, Wilson and Laserfiche Vice President Brian LaPointe will cover how the VPA integrated Laserfiche with SharePoint to:

• Drive business process automation.
• Capture hundreds of thousands of paper records.
• Improve information governance.

“Our integration with SharePoint 2010 provides Microsoft partners with a proven, agile way to help customers quickly,” Wilson added. “With Laserfiche, documents are immediately accessible and secure, regardless of its source: through SharePoint, scanners, fax servers, ERP systems, online forms, mobile devices or even digital cameras.”

Laserfiche first obtained DoD 5015.2 certification in 2003. Last year, Laserfiche obtained joint certification with SharePoint 2010 to provide a unified business collaboration platform with enterprise content management (ECM) functionality.

Laserfiche will be on hand at booth #719 throughout the event to demonstrate the joint records management solution.

About Laserfiche
Since 1987, Laserfiche® has used its Run Smarter® philosophy to create simple and elegant enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. More than 30,000 organizations worldwide use 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 while still offering business units the flexibility to react quickly to changing conditions. The Laserfiche product suite is built on top of Microsoft® technologies to simplify system administration, supports the Microsoft SQL platform and features a seamless integration with Microsoft Office® applications and a two-way integration with SharePoint®.

Laserfiche®, Run Smarter® and Compulink® are registered trademarks of Compulink Management Center, Inc.

“Rodney recognized that although SharePoint could do many great things for our organization, DoD 5015.2-certified records management wasn’t one of them,” says Ellis, who today is a senior web analyst for the Port Authority.

“SharePoint,” she explains, “with all of its many features is so much more robust than a network drive. In particular, the Port Authority uses document workspaces heavily, because they make it easy to collaborate on works in progress such as contracts. However, once you go beyond about 10,000 documents, you’ve got a real mess on your hands.”

According to Ellis, the Port Authority didn’t want to lose the collaboration features inherent in SharePoint, nor did it want to take a familiar interface away from the staff, so it needed to make sure that the ECM solution it selected had a seamless SharePoint integration. “I was the lead on the team that built our RFP,” Ellis says. “In the end, we had more than 400 requirements and 24 vendors vying for our business. The SharePoint integration was our top concern.”

Other important selection criteria included:

• Robust records management functionality.
• The ability to electronically store a wide range of file types, including AutoCAD drawings.
• Open architecture allowing integration with line-of-business applications such as CRM.
• Availability of workflow functionality for process improvements—and a reduced paper flow.

“Before we implemented Laserfiche, our records management plan was very inefficient,” Ellis explains. “We’d print out documents, process them by hand and then file them in cabinets. We had a whole warehouse dedicated to file storage, containing all kinds of old documents in Bankers Boxes stacked nearly to the ceiling that we didn’t have time to properly manage.”

Laserfiche + SharePoint = Transparency

By integrating Laserfiche with SharePoint, the Port Authority now has the ability to collaborate on documents, retain them electronically, and efficiently manage and dispose of digital records—all while giving users access to content through the SharePoint interface.

“Laserfiche has dramatically reduced the flow of paper throughout the organization,” says Ellis. “It’s opened up space for new offices and enabled us to tear down an entire warehouse for profitable use!”

But the cost and space savings aren’t the most significant benefits the Port Authority has realized as a result of its Laserfiche implementation. By acting as integrative middleware, Laserfiche allows users at the organization to access information in the environment with which they’re already familiar: SharePoint.

“The Port Authority’s had SharePoint for close to ten years, so people are pretty familiar with it,” says Ellis. “Most of our users won’t even know they’re using Laserfiche. With the integration, our content is searchable on an enterprise level, and the results are returned to users transparently through SharePoint. It enables us to access all our information from one central location without having to train our users on a new system.”

Laserfiche + SharePoint = Operational Efficiency

With Laserfiche in place, the Port Authority has started using it to streamline business processes. First on the list? The RFP and vendor selection process.

The Port Authority was established in 1952 as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the purpose of stimulating commerce in the ports of the Commonwealth, promoting the shipment of goods and cargoes through the ports, improving the navigable tidal waters within the Commonwealth, and in general to perform any act or function which may be useful in developing, improving or increasing the commerce of the ports of the Commonwealth. As such, it contracts with dozens of vendors each year.

In the past, the RFP and vendor selection process was manual and paper-based:

• Proposals were submitted in hard copy and photocopies for each member of the selection committee.
• After a contract had been finalized, paper copies were made for the Contracts and Finance Departments, and also distributed to the contract administrators.
• Because copies of the contracts documents weren’t centralized, it was difficult to locate the most current version of any given contract or amendment.

With the help of Unity ECM, the Port Authority’s Laserfiche reseller, the organization has transformed the entire process as follows:

• Proposals are submitted electronically and automatically routed into SharePoint.
• Proposals are posted to a workspace in SharePoint for contract evaluation, scoring, changes and selection.
• Once the collaboration phase is finished and the contract is finalized, it is automatically pulled into Laserfiche, where it is retained according to contract retention schedules.
• From SharePoint, users can access the contract by clicking on a URL that takes them directly to the document stored in Laserfiche. The URL placeholder in SharePoint ensures that the data is synchronized between the two systems, simplifying version control.
• When searching for a contract, users run a search in SharePoint that seamlessly provides results from both the Laserfiche and SharePoint repositories.

“Even employees who aren’t technologically inclined appreciate the efficiency of our new process,” says Ellis. “In general, having real-time information available in a central location has been one of the most important process improvements our organization has received as a benefit of this project.”

Overcoming Implementation Hurdles

One implementation hurdle that Ellis hopes to help other people avoid when integrating Laserfiche with SharePoint has to do with Kerberos, a network authentication protocol that, according to Ellis, is “widely used but poorly documented.”

The Laserfiche/SharePoint integration tools are optimally designed for a single-server deployment, but according to Ellis, the Port Authority “has Laserfiche and SharePoint set up on a multi-server farm that consists of five different servers: the Laserfiche Application Server, Laserfiche SQL Server, SharePoint (MOSS) Server, SharePoint SQL Server and a server for Laserfiche Web Access. Prior to implementing Laserfiche, we didn’t realize that—because we have multiple servers—the integration wouldn’t work without a great deal of manual configuration and without using Kerberos. We had a few frustrating days before we figured that out.

“In the end,” she adds, “we had to enlist a senior network administrator to assist us by adding the SPNs on the domain controllers, since adding them to the Laserfiche or SharePoint servers doesn’t solve the issue.

“My two big pieces of advice for other organizations that want to deploy the Laserfiche/SharePoint integration are to get to know your Active Directory and SharePoint experts really well (if you’re not either one) and use the Laserfiche Support Site. Read those Knowledge Base articles!”

Even the hassle surrounding the Kerberos issue, however, didn’t dampen Ellis’ enthusiasm for Laserfiche. “If I had to do it all over again the same way, I’d do it all over again, hands-down,” she says. “Both our users and our executives are impressed with the efficiency and effectiveness the Laserfiche/SharePoint integration affords the organization. Putting a secure, centralized and powerful Laserfiche repository behind SharePoint has given everybody much better access to the information they need to do their jobs well.”

The Facilities Services/Plant Management Department was using Laserfiche to digitize content like electrical drawings and floor plans, but other departments still relied on third-party storage and manual search methods. Filing, storing and locating records were not only extremely difficult processes, but also very time consuming.

“Managing primarily paper records in an organization of our size was often a slow, arduous and expensive task,” says Hiltz. “We were forced to rely on outside storage facilities, and manual workflow processes were extremely inefficient.”

In addition to eliminating the need for paper storage altogether by building a digital records repository, HWDSB also needed to improve its ability to readily locate records—both for faster customer service and easier compliance with government regulations.

Compliance Complications

The Ontario Ministry of Education requires a student’s records to be kept for five years after the student graduates, while other information is to be held for 55 years, including:

• Student transcripts.
• Special education information.
• Disciplinary records.
• Copies of diplomas and certifications.

In a district of 50,000 students and 7,000 employees, this amounted to an enormous quantity of records that were on paper, CD-ROMs or microfilm—often stored in boxes in basements of schools that had the extra space. “If someone graduated in 1960 and contacted us for a copy of their diploma, we had to take the time to manually search through each box until we found the record,” Hiltz explains.

Overhauling Old Methods

In an effort to overhaul its paper-based approach to content management, streamline processes in multiple departments and ease regulation compliance, Hiltz pushed for change. “The IT Department began an education campaign around content management. We held information sessions and group discussions to figure out how additional departments could use Laserfiche and if it was the right choice across the board.”

Turns out it was: Citing ease of use as the number-one selection criteria, Hiltz says that the scalability of Laserfiche allowed HWDSB to roll it out at a workable cost, expanding use by one department at a time.

“The biggest user of Laserfiche is the Director’s—or Superintendent’s—Office,” he says. There, the Director and other senior officials use Laserfiche on a daily basis, not only as a mechanism for storing records, but also to manage:

• Committee meetings and minutes.
• Trustee meeting agendas.
• Ontario policies and procedures.

Hiltz’s own IT Department also uses Laserfiche to manage its forms, invoices, purchase orders and records. Rather than wait for other departments to respond to information requests—which entailed locating the information, making necessary copies and then sending them over—now Laserfiche allows authorized users to retrieve records themselves from the Laserfiche repository. “All of the departments working with Laserfiche are eliminating storage and getting rid of excess paper, but we’re also focusing on improving interdepartmental access to records and making them faster to retrieve.”

In addition to IT, Facilities and the Director’s Office, HWDSB deployed Laserfiche in Business Services as well. “Accounting, Payroll, Purchasing—they all use Laserfiche now. When it comes time for audits of our invoices and purchase orders, everything we need is easily accessible,” Hiltz explains. “Previously, we had to send this information to offsite storage, which made retrieval extremely difficult.”

Winning Results

HWDSB was pleased to see several immediate benefits after expanding its Laserfiche implementation, including:

• A reduction in the need for offsite storage.
• Optimization of office space.
• Easier compliance with government mandates and a streamlined auditing process.
• More efficient use of staff time.
• Quicker searchability and accessibility of records.

“Laserfiche has become a part of how people do their jobs on a daily basis,” Hiltz says. “It’s evident people are committed to using it—it’s just a more efficient way to operate.”

A substantial amount of paper has been removed from HWDSB’s offices as files can now be accessed from the secure Laserfiche repository, both optimizing much needed office space and allowing the staff to work more efficiently.

“Laserfiche has allowed our staff to work more productively, saving our Board money and providing us with the confidence that we can quickly access critically important documents when needed,” Hiltz continues. “Staff is able to complete tasks in a fraction of the time and reduce the possibility of lost or late arriving documents.”

Positive Projections

In addition to using Laserfiche for enterprise content management, Hiltz says that HWDSB is also working to develop a SharePoint Enterprise Portal, with plans to use Laserfiche as the ECM component to provide content management, search and retrieval and Workflow automation. The integration will enable staff—and eventually students and their parents—to access documents stored in the Laserfiche repository right from the portal, eliminating the need to launch Laserfiche separately or toggle between screens. Staff-related documents types will include:

• Staff benefit statements.
• Vacation requests.
• Professional development portfolios.
• Mileage requests and reimbursement claims.

Staff will be able to log into the portal from anywhere and search information stored in Laserfiche. “One of the keys to this integration is the ability to instantly search for documents. Laserfiche makes it so easy,” says Hiltz.

Although HWDB is still at the beginning stages of implementing Laserfiche Workflow, Hiltz says that the organization is planning to use the full range of BPM functionality. The Director’s Office is eager to use Agenda Manager, while the HR department is very interested in using Workflow to automate processes for job applications, benefits information and staff records. “Using Workflow to complete forms and requests, while integrating with the portal, will boost efficiency in paper-heavy departments like HR immensely,” Hiltz explains.

HWDSB also has plans to make Laserfiche a part of its education initiative called 21st Century Fluencies. “We’re asking, ‘How can teachers teach like they’ve never taught before?’ The classroom needs to prepare students for careers, and of course technology is a huge part of that,” says Hiltz. “Both students and teachers are adjusting to learning and teaching with technology, and Laserfiche is the perfect fit with the idea of paperless classrooms—where reference materials, student papers, grades and so on are accessed and organized electronically.”

Hiltz concludes that HWDSB decided to expand its Laserfiche implementation because it is “far superior” to other ECM systems. “Even if Laserfiche is implemented in individual departments at first, the benefits are clearly enterprise-wide. It’s definitely important to focus on working toward implementation across the entire organization.”

Chuck Beard, president of DynaSource, credits a year-long sales strategy leveraging the high-visibility success of its Spindletop Mental Health and Retardation Services account (which uses Laserfiche and SharePoint to support its Anasazi EMR system) with closing the deal.

“We put our efforts into making the Spindletop account the best it could be—for the client and for us,” says Beard. This meant spending early 2010 expanding Spindletop’s use of Laserfiche to several non-clinical departments (HR, Accounting, Admissions, etc.) using Quick Fields, Workflow and Web Access.

Beard points out that a major catalyst for the sale to ETBHN was a presentation given by Spindletop CIO Jerry Carnley to a statewide group of 40 CIOs in June. “He had the enthusiasm and tenacity to say ‘Here’s what we’ve done, we need to get this out to everybody,’” Beard explains.

ETBHN spent the summer assessing solutions before choosing to adopt Rio—and the Laserfiche/SharePoint integration—for all its agencies in late December. “ETBHN wanted a standardized application for each department that would offer standardized deployment across locations,” Beard explains. “Out of multiple competitors, Laserfiche was the only one with a single point of contact to access patient records through SharePoint.”

Beard is confident DynaSource can continue to build on this exponential success in 2011. “We used to focus on implementing cookie-cutter solutions; this is more like whole bakeries,” he says. “Spindletop represented not only a county-wide opportunity, but one that’s now regional, statewide and, ultimately, national in scope.”

Laserfiche first obtained DoD 5015.2 certification for its software in 2003. With the joint certification, Laserfiche now works with SharePoint 2010 to provide a unified business collaboration platform with comprehensive enterprise content management (ECM) functionality.

“In today’s competitive global market, public and private organizations around the world use the DoD 5015.2 standard to help them identify records management solutions that facilitate compliance with strict recordkeeping requirements,” said Sean Tang, director of international business at Laserfiche. “Our integration with SharePoint 2010 gives customers a proven, agile way to quickly improve information governance.”

The joint certification with SharePoint 2010 reflects a commitment from Laserfiche to develop agile ECM solutions designed to support customers who need:

• Transparent records management.
• Turnkey transactional content management.
• Complete document capture and imaging functionality.

At GITEX, Laserfiche will also demonstrate how Laserfiche Workflow, a business process management (BPM) tool included in the Laserfiche ECM suite, enables organizations to create custom workflows that automatically perform specific tasks based on activity occurring in Laserfiche as well as other applications such as GIS, ERP, CRM and more.

“Technology leaders across the Middle East have improved operational efficiency by including Laserfiche Workflow in their overall ECM strategy,” said Nizar Ghannam, COO of BMB Group, a business technology advisor and Laserfiche distributor based in Lebanon. “With its support for the Arabic language, Laserfiche ECM is the top choice for Middle Eastern companies of all sizes.”

GITEX attracts more than 130,000 visitors from more than 60 countries. Laserfiche will be exhibiting in Hall 7 (booth #E7-10) with BMB sal (Lebanon); a number of Laserfiche VARs will also be present in the booth, including ISB (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), ITQAN (Qatar), Kuwait United Company for Copies & Computer Services (Kuwait), Mazroui and Partners (UAE), PIXEL Digital (UAE) and TAFEEL IT Co (KSA).

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 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 react quickly to changing conditions. The Laserfiche product suite is built on top of 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®.

As the global distributor, Laserfiche International (LFI) distributes Laserfiche software through an international network of distributors and value-added resellers (VARs) who tailor solutions to clients’ individual needs.

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

• DoD 5015.2-certified records management.
• Complete document capture and imaging functionality.
• Turnkey transactional content management.
• Simplified workflow design with Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.
• Accelerated deployment of SharePoint sites.

The DoD 5015.2 standard sets forth core functionality requirements for records management software used by the Department of Defense and its components. Endorsed by the National Archives and Records Administration, it is also used as a benchmark by many other federal, state and local government entities, in addition to numerous public and private corporations.

View video comments from Andy Wang, our director of ECM strategy, here.

“Laserfiche has done the hard work to achieve DoD 5015.2 certification with a solution built on the SharePoint platform,” said Dan Craytor, Chief Architect for Microsoft’s Department of Defense business. “By combining Laserfiche with SharePoint 2010, customers can use a rich and agile platform for collaboration and content management.”

Laserfiche works together with SharePoint 2010 to provide a unified business collaboration platform with comprehensive enterprise content management (ECM) functionality. The joint certification reflects a commitment from both Microsoft Corp. and Laserfiche to work together to provide customers with a cutting-edge solution that offers:

• DoD 5015.2-certified records management.
• Complete document capture and imaging functionality.
• Turnkey transactional content management.
• Simplified workflow design with Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.
• Accelerated deployment of SharePoint sites.

“A rock-solid records management strategy that simplifies compliance and ensures security of information is essential for success in today’s market,” said Brian LaPointe, Vice President of Strategic Solutions at Laserfiche. “Our joint, DoD 5015.2-certified solution allows organizations and agencies to leverage the strengths of both Laserfiche and SharePoint 2010.”

“In recent years, Federal, state and local government entities have recognized the significance of such standards as DoD 5015.2,” said Craytor. “As Microsoft’s first partner to achieve this joint certification with SharePoint 2010, we are very enthusiastic about the new opportunities this opens up for government customers of all sizes.”

The DoD 5015.2 standard sets forth core functionality requirements for records management software used by the Department of Defense and its components. Endorsed by the National Archives and Records Administration, it is also used as a benchmark by many other federal, state and local government entities, in addition to numerous public and private corporations.

About Microsoft
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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 is designed to give IT managers centralized 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 on Microsoft technologies to simplify system administration, supports the Microsoft SQL Server platform and combines with Microsoft Office applications and with SharePoint.

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

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners

“People want more choice and flexibility in how, where, and when they work,” said Owen Allen, SharePoint senior product manager, Microsoft Corp. “Laserfiche is built on the SharePoint 2010 platform to offer customers a way to achieve richer and better collaboration and productivity using SharePoint 2010.”

“Given Laserfiche’s experience and dedication to the Microsoft suite of technology, we believe it delivers a complete offering to customers seeking an integrated content management and SharePoint 2010 solution,” said Jerry Carnley, CIO of Spindletop MHMR (a community mental health center). Spindletop has evolved as an innovator of technology among the community centers of east Texas (covering about 30% of counties in Texas) that store and access data on the SharePoint Server farm housed at Spindletop.

“Laserfiche provided custom templates that allow our users to scan 10 times more content than before the custom templates were implemented,” added Carnley. “Also, the Web interface provided by Laserfiche allows us to properly and securely archive this sensitive data in a responsible way that is accessible from anywhere on the private MPLS network that connects all 10 community centers.” Laserfiche value-added reseller DynaSource successfully integrated Laserfiche Web Access with Spindletop’s SharePoint Server-powered Intranet.

The Laserfiche customer base and community of developers are eager to start working on integrations with SharePoint 2010 to leverage new features and support them when available. With the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 fast approaching, Laserfiche looks forward to the unveiling of SharePoint Server 2010 and to continuing its tradition of a firm alignment with Microsoft technology.

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

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—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 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 on top of 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 Products and Technologies.

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.

The Tuesday, June 9, 3:15-4:15 p.m., session will include findings from a recent EIU global survey and part of a research report titled Disciplined Autonomy: Resolving the tension between flexibility and control. The report, sponsored by Laserfiche, concluded that the more employees feel empowered, the more productive they tend to be.

EIU Research Director, Americas, Nigel Holloway, who will participate in the presentation said, “Standardization leads to greater efficiency and more effective corporate governance. Organizations may find it increasingly difficult to centralize back-office functions, particularly in regards to technology. Instead, IT leaders should look to define standards that add transparency and efficiency to the flow of information across the organization.”

Further, Mark Gilbert, Gartner Vice President of Research and PCC Summit Chair, will kick off the session with a look at how to stop fighting your users and give them the freedom to do better.

The Summit brings together C-level executives with analysts and industry experts for more than 40 in-depth sessions focused on new ways to access, search, structure and manage information to improve organizational productivity and efficiency through collaboration and social software.

Laserfiche is a Premier Sponsor at this event. Representatives on site will demonstrate (booth #2) Rio, a fully scalable ECM system that is easy to purchase and deploy across the information-heavy enterprise. They will also be presenting the Laserfiche-SharePoint integration, which maximizes the strengths of both systems; while SharePoint adds collaboration portal functionality to Microsoft Office, Laserfiche provides best-in-class document imaging and content management.

To learn more please download Disciplined Autonomy: Resolving the tension between flexibility and control.

About Laserfiche
Laserfiche creates simple and elegant enterprise content management solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, more than 27,000 organizations—including government offices, Fortune 1000 companies, healthcare organizations and financial services firms—have used Laserfiche software to streamline processes for managing documents, records and workflow.

• Localization support for language packs.
• Spanish language pack release for Web Access 8.0.1, Web Access Light and the SharePoint integration.
• General improvements to the UI and usability, including usability of whitespace, a Recycle Bin, settings dialog and page deletion.
• Enhanced e-mail attachments that enable users to add Laserfiche documents from all over the repository to a single attachment and hold them until the e-mail is ready to send.
• Simplified SharePoint integration configuration with a configuration utility which does not require manual editing of XML files.
• Web Access Light, a Section 508-compatible text version of Web Access which also provides support for mobile devices such as Blackberries and iPhones.

For more information, please download What’s New in Web Access 8.0.1 from the Support Site.

When we introduced the first version of Laserfiche in the late 1980s, digital document management was a new concept for most organizations. Now, as technology has matured and the world has increasingly gone digital, few organizations can survive without it.

Organizations’ needs have also grown more complex over the years. In the past, they needed a system that would help their most paper-intensive departments archive and retrieve their documents. But now they need a solution that also helps them streamline business processes enterprise-wide.

The marketplace is clearly ready for an enterprise solution that’s easy on the budget and easy to purchase and install, and that’s why we’ve spent the last few years developing Rio.

One of Rio’s strongest features in this regard is its licensing structure—you simply purchase a named license for each user in your organization. This license provides users with a full range of ECM functionality, including Workflow, Web Access, Advanced Audit Trail, Snapshot and the E-mail Plug-in. License pricing follows a sliding scale, so the more users in your organization, the lower per-user price you’ll pay. In addition, you can upgrade your system to add Laserfiche WebLink to provide unlimited public access to documents in your Laserfiche repository.

Rio includes an unlimited number of Laserfiche servers, which you can use for back ups, failover clusters, testing and other purposes. Rio also helps you adapt to changing business conditions—you can add users simply by purchasing additional user licenses, and you can take advantage of workflow automation or Web-based document management without extra expense. This licensing structure makes budgeting for an enterprise deployment much easier, and it eliminates the long requisition process customers often face when they want to expand their system.

Rio also offers industry-leading integration with SharePoint, complementing SharePoint’s collaboration tools by adding imaging functionality and enhanced workflow capabilities. So if your organization has a SharePoint installation, but you’re not sure how it will work with your Laserfiche system, now there’s a solution to help you unite SharePoint with Laserfiche, without compromising the security or records management functionality of your Laserfiche solution.

We’ve created a Website to provide you with more information about Rio. If you have questions about if Rio is right for your organization, please contact your solutions provider.

“The ECM industry has been deluged with complex and difficult-to-implement systems that have been cobbled together from many different products,” said Laserfiche CEO Nien-Ling Wacker. “The time is right for an innovative solution that is easy to purchase, deploy and administer. Rio transcends product boundaries to unite document management, business process management and transparent records management in a single enterprise solution.”

With Rio, organizations simply purchase named user licenses which provide a full range of ECM functionality, including workflow automation, Web-based document management, audit trail tracking, optional DoD 5015.2-certified records management and powerful capture tools that unify content located in disparate systems and formats. Licenses range from $700 to $100 per user, based on the quantity purchased.

Rio also includes an unlimited number of Laserfiche servers and repositories, which organizations can use to support back ups, failover clusters, testing environments and multiple locations. To expand their systems, organizations simply purchase additional licenses, which eliminates long requisition processes and makes budgeting for an enterprise deployment much easier.

“We chose Rio because it really made sense,” said Frank Hagy, CIO of the Florida League of Cities. “Because we have locations in different parts of the state, Rio will help us streamline administration, add additional functionality and reduce our annual support costs. It’s a refreshing way to think about ECM.”

Rio is built on a Microsoft platform and uses Microsoft-standard tools, including Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and the .NET framework, to simplify system administration. Laserfiche Workflow, built on the Windows Workflow Foundation, helps organizations move beyond simple document routing to automate everyday tasks, optimize business processes and share information with a wide variety of applications. And a seamless integration with SharePoint^® enables users to work with both paper and electronic documents from a uniform, user-friendly interface.

“We design our products to make complex systems simpler,” said Wacker. “Rio provides what enterprises have been looking for—an intuitive, easy-to-use ECM system that builds on their existing Microsoft infrastructure.”

About Laserfiche

Laserfiche (www.laserfiche.com) creates simple and elegant document management solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, Laserfiche has helped more than 25,000 organizations—including state and local governments, financial services firms and healthcare organizations—streamline processes for managing documents, records and workflow.