Document Management Company Sponsors FPA Australia Conference

Shows Financial Planners How to Go Green

BROADBEACH, QUEENSLAND, Australia—Nov. 10, 2008—In an effort to further educate independent financial advisory firms on “going green,” Laserfiche® today announced its first-ever sponsorship of the upcoming Financial Planning Association (FPA) 2008 National Conference in Australia. The conference, which provides leading educational and professional development opportunities for financial planners, will be held at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre from Nov. 18-21, 2008.

Document management solutions will emphasize the importance of an EDMS and business process management (BPM) as a means for firms to simultaneously move beyond paperless offices and become digital and more profitable. Additionally, Tim Welsh, CFP, president of Nexus Strategy and Laserfiche financial spokesperson, will deliver a presentation on simple, cost-effective tips for financial advisors to green their offices with document management solutions.

“The independent financial advisory market is changing with today’s financial crunch and it is becoming increasingly important for small firms to automate processes and implement technology that increases efficiency,” Welsh said. “Through use of EDMS and BPM, financial advisors can assist their firms in becoming environmentally friendly with document images, while increasing overall profits.”

Welsh will refer to his latest work, “Going Beyond Green in Australia While Building a Sustainable Advisory Business,” written in conjunction with Louise Barnes, a senior consultant at Fire Up Consulting LLC. The article addresses the benefits of implementing sustainable strategies in the workplace. In addition, Welsh will offer advice to financial advisors on succession planning for their firms with document management software.

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Paperless Meetings are the Wave of the Future

New Jersey communities are using Laserfiche to eliminate paper and put more information in the hands of decision makers at public government meetings

The versatility of electronic document management software technology has inspired creative applications that have taken the paper out of countless government agencies and operations over the past 20 years. Now it’s reaching outside the office into that bastion of paper rustling, public government meetings.

Armed with laptops, compact discs and/or internet access, elected officials are working from electronic agendas that run the meetings that run local government. The technology eliminates mountains of paper, helps with organizing those meetings and—perhaps most important—puts much more information into the hands of the decisions makers as they make those decisions.

The Ramsey clerk’s office started scanning and storing meeting minutes and other paperwork into a document management database in January. Ramsey Councilman Arthur Nalbandian heard that other New Jersey communities were using document images software to help run their municipal meetings, and suggested it might work in Ramsey.

“Our council is receiving it very well,” Bendian says. “It enables us to link to every document that has to do with whatever agenda item we’re working on. We put it all in there together with the agenda.”

Bendian builds the electronic agenda by scanning all the upcoming meeting business into document management solutions, including agenda items requested by the various department heads and any internal supporting documentation those department heads may have submitted for those items. Public communications to the mayor and council are also scanned in.

While the use of document management for paperless meetings is an extremely useful innovation, the benefits of Laserfiche can go much further, according to Greg Hart, Borough Administrator for nearby Franklin Lakes. Hart is a strong proponent of paperless meeting technology and has given demonstrations on the subject before the Municipal Clerks’ Association of New Jersey.

“There is significant investment but the pay off is so much more than the input,” Hart says. “For us it was very user friendly, and the mayor and council adjusted very quickly. The important thing is that nobody is shuffling papers any more.”

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Sharing the Good News about Laserfiche with Your Colleagues

With the support of the Eaton County Information Systems Office, the Eaton County Prosecutor’s Office has successfully transitioned from dependence on physical paper file folders. In fact, we are among the first prosecutor offices in the USA to go paperless with document management software!

Changing to electronic files isn’t a revolutionary idea; many private industries have already made the switch. But our change has been a revolutionary improvement in how we do the people’s business, and is a harbinger of the future for many other prosecutor offices.

I think it’s important to show my colleagues that there’s a better way to do business. So, on our Website, we include information on why we chose Laserfiche, how it works, the benefits and our tips and suggestions for success. There’s a frequently asked questions section that answers questions like “How do you handle discovery?” and “What happens if your computer crashes?” We had such a positive response to that page that we created and posted videos about how we work, so other prosecutors’ offices can see the benefits of Laserfiche first hand.

One of the other things I do is talk about Laserfiche whenever I can. We host on-site visits from other prosecutors’ offices interested in seeing how “paperless” with document images we really are. (Instead of six file cabinets, we now only need a single drawer – and it doesn’t even hold paper. We use it to hold evidence CDs.) The fact that we haven’t lost a single file in over three years is earth-shattering to other prosecutors.

I also present at industry conferences. Last year, I lectured for the National College of District Attorneys (NCDA) and the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) National Advocacy Center about our paperless file document management system. During these presentations, I show screenshots of our Laserfiche repository and explain our various work processes. I also like to show photos of the “before” and “after” in our office. It’s a great way to spread the word that there’s a better way to work than with paper using document management solutions.

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Organize, Protect and Retrieve

The latest offering from Laseriche, a reputed document management and enterprise content management solutions provider is Rio.

Laserfiche Rio brings together the most popular modules of the Laserfiche content management suite in a new format specifically designed for enterprise deployment. Designed for organizations with more than 100 users, Laserfiche Rio offers named user licenses which provide a full range of ECM functionality, including workflow automation, Web-based document management, audit trail tracking and optional DoD 5015.2-certified records management. 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.

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When Laserfiche introduced their first version in the late1980s, 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 Enterprise Content Management 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 software 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.

Laserfiche ECM 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.

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Rio, the New Laserfiche ECM Solution, Makes its Debut

When Laserfiche introduced their first version in the late1980s, 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 Enterprise Content Management 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 software 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.

Laserfiche ECM 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.

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More California Cities Choose Laserfiche Document Management

Laserfiche Helps Municipal Staff Work More Efficiently, Reduce Overhead Costs and Comply with Open Public Records Acts

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Long Beach, CA – In the month of May alone, Laserfiche, a leading provider of digital document management and records management systems, has won the business of five new California cities: the City of Brawley, the City of Oroville, the City of Tehachapi, the City of Petaluma and the City of Westminster. Stephen Weinberg, Laserfiche’s regional sales manager for California, attributes this success to the fact that Laserfiche has obtained government certification year after year for each new version of its software, demonstrating its commitment to government customers. Laserfiche now works with over 200 cities in the state of California, and with thousands more cities across the U.S. and around the world.

“I believe that Laserfiche really stands out to city governments because we help them ensure compliance with freedom of information legislation and open public records laws by offering products like WebLink, Web Access and Audit Trail,” Weinberg said. “Laserfiche software is built on the Microsoft® platform and integrates easily with the software city governments use every day. We also have a team of in-house experts who work with their IT departments and staff on an ongoing basis.”

Weinberg added that most of his municipal customers want the stability of an established document management vendor they can trust. Laserfiche has been a successful private company for more than 20 years. According to Forrester Research, Inc., Laserfiche takes a “less is more” approach and focuses on ease of use, eliminating file cabinets and, most importantly, affordability. In uncertain economic times, solutions that streamline business processes across the enterprise are quite appealing because of the short- and long-term cost savings they provide. Paperless alternatives are also popular because they contribute to “green” initiatives that focus on saving paper and reducing energy consumption.

About LaserficheLaserfiche (http://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 providers — optimize business processes and reduce operating costs.

Laserfiche captures and indexes all your organization’s paperwork — from documents and faxes to e-mails and multimedia files — in a secure, central repository. A unified metadata model helps users classify information, while full-text search tools enable them to quickly find what they need. Laserfiche’s open architecture and flexible API promote rapid integration with other Web- and Windows-based applications, allowing users to capture, manage and distribute information in diverse working environments.

Laserfiche software is distributed by a worldwide network of value-added resellers, who have extensive experience creating enterprise content management solutions that meet clients’ specific business needs. In recognition of the outstanding training and support we provide our resellers, the Laserfiche VAR program has received a five-star rating from both VARBusiness and GovernmentVAR magazines.

For more information, please visit
http://www.laserfiche.com/news/archives/2008/05/30/more-california-cities-choose-laserfiche-document-management/

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