For many of us, top ten lists have been a part of our late night routine. We stayed up to watch David Letterman’s monologue because it was alway funny and entertaining.
I have found a top ten list developed by a non-profit organization, AIIM, that helps people find, control, and optimize their information. It gives the top 10 excuses for not considering a document imaging system this year.
If you have been looking at implementing a document imaging system such as Laserfiche, you may be asking, will this technology help my business be more efficient? How do I justify this expense at this time? What is my return on investment (ROI)?
I think that AIIM’s short videos will help answer all of these questions and more:
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Sobrekk Business Technology Solutions
Reaches Winners Circle Status
GOLDEN VALLEY, MN (Solbrekk) – October 14, 2009 — Solbrekk announced today that the business technology solutions provider has reached Laserfiche “Winners Circle” status for the second time. This means that Solbrekk will be recognized in January 2010 at a special event for accomplished value-added resellers.
“This year, customers have been careful to select a reliable, cost-effective solution that creates efficiency, and adds value to their organization, “says Larry Phelps, Solbrekk’s vice president of sales. “Laserfiche has been a great fit because their enterprise content management software suite is open, easy to integrate, loaded with functionality and easy to use, reducing the complexities for IT staff and end-users, and frankly, this is exactly what our customers want.”
As a case in point, Phelps points to Solbrekk’s work for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, one of the largest newspapers in the United States. “It was a very challenging project,” Phelps explained that the company needed to replace a legacy imaging system and migrate massive databases from shared servers.
“As part of that task, Chad Brinkman, our senior network and integration engineer, deciphered their existing integrations and workflows and then implemented them in the new systems. All told, he integrated Laserfiche successfully with PeopleSoft®, RightFax® and Oracle® applications,” said Phelps. “These integrations will help the Star Tribune streamline key processes in accounts payable, human resources, travel and contracts. This project is a great example of how Laserfiche serves as a versatile and flexible foundation for enterprise solutions.”
Solbrekk’s other recent successes include Laserfiche deployments for I.C. System and the City of Shoreview, Minnesota. Looking ahead, Solbrekk plans to focus on delivering solutions to clients in the medical, local government and manufacturing fields, as well as developing enterprise-wide solutions for corporations of all sizes.
Based in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Solbrekk, Inc., was formed in 2003 to bring together the combined knowledge and experience of four complementary businesses that had each been in business for a dozen years or more. The group included Software Tailors, Inc., Phelps’ former company, which had been a Laserfiche VAR since 1995. With 20 certified network engineers on staff, Solbrekk has quickly become one of the largest computer service companies in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Larry Phelps and Chad Brinkman lead the company’s electronic document management solutions team.
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 healthcare organizations, 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 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.
I just heard that Laserfiche 8 has just received the highest-possible Five-Star rating from Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) in its latest Solutions Report. Never before has a document management solution received a Five-Star rating from BLI. Buyers Laboratory does independent research about products produced by the imaging industry for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), dealers and business consumers.
If you have been waiting to upgrade from Laserfiche version 7, now is probably the time to consider upgrading. Laserfiche 8.1 includes the following enhancements:
- Restore deleted pages from the Recycle Bin.
- Preview pane for viewing pages, annotations, and other
document properties from the Folder Browser.
- Search fields, text, annotations and file names in one simple search.
- Updates to annotations, including new polygon annotations.
- LDAP integration.
- Connection encryption using SSL/TSL.
- Improved volume management tools.
- Repository locking for cleaner administration maintenance
For more details on Laserfiche version 8.1CLICK HERE
New Horizon Academy has been serving families since 1971. Not only must they be excellent at teaching and caring for children, but they must maintain their paper work in the same manner. That is why they use Laserfiche.
Hear their story:
People often ask me isn’t document imaging really expensive compared to using paper. Good question!
If you knew what your paper systems are costing you, you would probably set your sights on this new target …
… saving money by using paper-less technology.
Here are what experts are saying about how costly paper is to your organization:
Professionals spend 50 percent of their time searching for information, and take 18 minutes to locate each document on average. -Gartner Research
Companies typically misfile up to 20 percent of their records – thus losing them forever. -ARMA International
$14,000 worth of productivity is lost per worker per year due to their inability to find the data they require to do their job. -IDC Canada
A study conducted by The Delphi Group in 1999 found that 90% of typical office tasks still revolve around the gathering and distribution of paper documents. While 15% of all papers are lost, 30% of our time is used trying to find these lost documents. Companies on average spend $25,000 to fill a typical four-drawer file cabinet, $2,000 to maintain it each year, and over its life-span, a single sheet of paper ends up costing an average of $30. -Delphi Group
US companies spend approximately $20 on labor costs in order to file a document, $120 on the labor required to find a misfiled document and $220 to reproduce a lost document. -Coopers & Lybrand
For companies that manage their own files, employees spend between 20-40% of their time searching for documents manually. -Coopers & Lybrand
90% of documents that are consulted daily are handled without any appropriate management. -Coopers & Lybrand
For lost documents, companies pay a cost of searching, 6 times the value of the original document. -Coopers & Lybrand
Companies that need to redo documents pay 11 times more than the cost of the original document. -Coopers & Lybrand
Out of all documents generated, up to 7% are lost. -Coopers & Lybrand
Employees spend more than 50% of their time searching for information. -Coopers & Lybrand
Paper files are doubling every 3.5 years. -Coopers & Lybrand
The average document is copied 19 times. -Coopers & Lybrand
Each day one billion photocopies are made -AIIM, Forrester, Star Securities, US Department of Labor
Minneapolis, Minnesota – May 12, 2009 – Laserfiche today named Solbrekk Business Tecnhnology Solutions as VAR of the Month for May 2009. The reseller has demonstrated significant success with Community Action Agencies and ancillary government agencies like Watersheds (Rice Creek Watershed). The resellers work with the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s legacy systems helped the newspaper win a Run Smarter Award at last year’s Laserfiche International Conference. Laserfiche news story
Our hosted Laserfiche solution enables you to use top-class document imaging and management applications without the cost of buying, managing, and supporting the underlying technology.
Why store your documents using our hosted Laserfiche solution?
- Minimal up-front costs
- Predictable monthly fee
- Fast and simple implementation
- Better security
- Guaranteed data security, data back-up, and disaster recovery plan
I was recently asked an interesting question “Is it unusual that we are using Laserfiche Workflow, because it seems that many organizations similar to ours are not?”Here was my response to her:
“I would say that you are ahead of many organizations your size.They are just starting to realize that they need to work on their business processes, automating as many as possible.I am working with a few clients similar to you and they are in the most difficult phase: the definition phase.During this phase, we found that the processes that management put in place were not often what was happening on a day-to-day basis.It is quite time-consuming to follow the process, document what is actually happening, and then define what the correct process should be.You have already done.
“Many organizations have not taken the steps you have because; they think it is too time consuming to define the process, the software is too expensive, and their staff does not have time to learn something new.
“But the organizations that have implemented Laserfiche Workflow have found that saving time is just one of the benefits they received.Other benefits are:
1.Management now knows exactly what the business process (workflow) is and that it was being followed each and every time.
2.Training of new employees is easier because they don’t have to learn the business process rules, they just need to complete their part of the process, and Laserfiche Workflow takes care of the rest.
3.Management can be alerted when a certain process is not completed in a timely manner.
4.It is much easier to find where a file is in the process, rather than physically searching the office to find who has the file.
5.The organization is less dependent on key employees who know the business process.
6.The workflow does not stop if an employee is on vacation or leaves the organization.
“So, you are on the right track using Laserfiche Workflow.And, in the near future, many organizations similar to yours will be doing the same.”
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