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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Laserfiche

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ALaserfiche has two main editions: Rio and Avante: Laserfiche Rio is designed to meet the needs of large organizations that have more than 100 users. It combines content management functionality with business process management (BPM), security and auditing, unlimited servers and a thin-client interface. Add-ons include records management functionality, public Web portals and production-level document capture and processing. Laserfiche Avante is an ECM suite for small to medium organizations with…

    $540

    per year per user

    Tidal by Redwood

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ATidal Automation, from Redwood Software since the early 2023 acquisition, is an enterprise workload automation platform for automating and orchestrating cross-application, cross-platform workloads – in on-prem, cloud or hybrid environments – from one central point of control. Tidal is used to optimize mission-critical business processes, manage…N/A
    Pricing
    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $540
    per year per user
    Starter
    $600
    per year per user
    Professional
    $710
    per year per user (starts at 10 users)
    Professional
    $830
    per year per user (starting at 5 users)
    Business
    $830
    per year per user (starts at 25 users)
    Business
    $950
    per year per user (starting at 25 users)
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Considered Both Products
    Laserfiche
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    Redwood Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Laserfiche and Tidal by Redwood
    Feature
    Laserfiche
    8.5
    25 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Tidal by Redwood
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    Ratings
    Content capture & imaging9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document management8.525 Ratings00 Ratings
    Records management9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval8.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content publishing & creation8.516 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance9.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract lifecycle management8.919 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated workflows8.516 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Laserfiche and Tidal by Redwood
    Feature
    Laserfiche
    -
    Ratings
    Tidal by Redwood
    8.3
    19 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Central monitoring00 Ratings8.618 Ratings
    Logging00 Ratings8.519 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.519 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Application integration00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
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    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Small Businesses
    Egnyte
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Epicor ECM
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Apache Airflow
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Dashpivot - By Sitemate
    Score10 out of 10
    Redwood RunMyJobs
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (48 ratings)
    7.4
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    LaserficheTidal by Redwood
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Laserfiche
    Laserfiche is well suited to the submission of simple routine reports to create a record repository. We use it for routine transport reports, audit reports, and anonymous citizen complaints. It creates a simple chronological record of routine events that can be reviewed and easily stored and recalled. Because the reports are in PDF format, it is not well suited to anything that needs to be imported into a common database or amended after submission.
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    Redwood Software
    On coming to well suited experience while error handling and effortless recovery processes are crucial, Tidal performs exceptionally well. It can identify and fix automated issues, reducing downtime and interruptions. A smaller automation solution may be more cost-effective if a business primarily utilizes a single platform or uses a small number of applications that do not require complex integration.
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    Pros
    Laserfiche
    • Laserfiche is easy to learn. Anyone, whether they have experience with IT or not, can learn how to use Laserfiche.
    • Laserfiche Forms allows people to use the form without having each person needing to be fully licensed which saves money.
    • Laserfiche Workflow and Forms can make processes quick, easy, and efficient, freeing up time so staff can get more work done.
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    Redwood Software
    • Tidal Automation allows us to automate and schedule/ perform various tasks in a easy and effective manner. It is highly interactive and effective allowing nearly 4k -5k jobs to run a day.
    • Tidal is designed to be easily shareable and collaborative allowing multiple users to work at a particular time making work effective.
    • Tidal allows us to ensure that every event which is triggered is exactly when it's supposed to be regardless of other activities which are going as well.
    • It is user-friendly to generate the reports required of a particular object and allows us to test the codes perfectly well before executing in live environment.
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    Cons
    Laserfiche
    • While Laserfiche has some powerful development tools, it is difficult to manage configurations while promoting code across environments. For example, SQL connections and other environment specific resources have to be manually configured in each environment.
    • Laserfiche forms are a newer addition to the product family and could use some product maturity. While easy to use for simple forms, once your forms become more complex, you need to accomplish tasks by heavy JavaScript coding.
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    Redwood Software
    • Still a bit slow when navigating. If you close a job you have to wait a few seconds to open another one. Even when you made no changes.
    • When viewing a job and make no changes, the "ok" button changes the last modified date as if you made a change. No big deal, but wastes time when troubleshooting a problem and looking into what jobs were changed last.
    • You can see the parameters column in the "job activity", but not in "Job definitions".
    • Can't search the parameters field in the filter.
    • Changing a variable name does not change it on the job. It still works because Tidal Automation uses the ID number. It just causes confusion when you see a variable on a job and can't find the variable under "Variables". On top of that, Tidal Automation does not show the ID column under "Variables" making it even more difficult to find the variable.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Laserfiche
    We plan on renewing Laserfiche for the coming year but also have been considering a scanning and document management solution that can be purchased from our new accounting system company, we are implementing the accounting system this year. It will be a couple years before we make a decision to stay with Laserfiche or change.
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    Redwood Software
    We are on the fence. The increased pricing for renewals is staggering. With new automation options like Microsoft's Power Automate and Event Driven Ansible on the field, there are other options now available.
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    Usability
    Laserfiche
    It has an intuitive design that feels very natural to any user that has ever used Outlook or Windows Explorer. There are multiple ways to perform every action in order to help users with various software experiences find the shortcuts and actions they seek quickly and effectively.
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    Redwood Software
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    Reliability and Availability
    Laserfiche
    I am very satisfied with Laserfiche. I have found that certain larger jobs may are slow. This may also be related to our infrastructure environment. We have been able to tune Laserfiche to increase performance on larger jobs.
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    Redwood Software
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    Performance
    Laserfiche
    Performance, of course, is largely dependent on the underlying environment. Laserfiche does its part with multi-threading, taking advantage of multi-core servers on scanning, workflows, and bots. A SQL-Server back-end is suitable for small to medium-sized company, but may not scale to large, where Oracle would be the better choice. Workflows can be poorly written and perform recursive work slowing down the system. It's better to run batch type workflows at night when possible.
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    Redwood Software
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    Support Rating
    Laserfiche
    I have never had to wait for help from Laserfiche. If I cannot find the answer online, I can easily send an email to a customer support representative. I have always been helped the same day and my questions have always been resolved. The Empower conference is always a great learning opportunity and the online resources and webinars are top-notch.
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    Redwood Software
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    Online Training
    Laserfiche
    Easily accessible 24/7 so am able to complete courseware whenever time allows: Commute to work; waiting for friends or family; at night while relaxing [with a delicious glass of wine!]; whenever and wherever time and circumstances permit. Courseware is well written and presented in an easy to follow and understand format.
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    Redwood Software
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    Implementation Rating
    Laserfiche
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    Redwood Software
    Having provided consulting services for years on Tidal by Redwood, I recommend going with a solutions partner or consultant to deploy it. I believe there are sizing and tuning guidelines that should be followed for environments of scale. I believe they are not critical when first lighting up the product, but if you are not aware of them you will encounter performance degradation after a few thousand job objects are added.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Laserfiche
    The core infrastructure of Laserfiche, and the end user experience, is vastly superior. OnBase has a TERRIBLE UI and administration console by comparison. The core architecture of OnBase is also more scattered, while all Laserfiche processes go through a single service. Overall, the Laserfiche product is easier and more intuitive to install, maintain, and use.
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    Redwood Software
    1. Tidal is good at processing large volume pf data and is cost effective. 2. Tidal can automate the scheduling of production objects, ensure that materials are delivered on time 3. Tidal Process large volumes of data which cannot be done everyday by running codes/scripts manually which does it with ease when required.
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    Return on Investment
    Laserfiche
    • Laserfiche has increased the efficiency of our sales reps by giving making all of the historical sales deal information very simple and fast to retrieve.
    • Laserfiche has increased our efficiency with our AP department and gave department heads the ability to approve invoices where ever they are.
    • I would say the biggest ROI came with the transparency of the order process for new deals. Before there would be numerous phone calls made daily to find out where an order was within the process, and now you can simply look at all deals at any time.
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    Redwood Software
    • Better decision-making and more process visibility are achieved through reporting and monitoring.
    • Lowered time frames and streamlined administration of the workflow.
    • Improved cost and resource allocation, especially in cloud contexts.
    • A decrease in manual errors and related expenditures.
    • Unusual problems that could occur during automation.
    • Possible difficulties shifting to a new automation tool.
    • The expense of beginning implementation and training.
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    Screenshot of Laserfiche Records ManagementScreenshot of Change of Major/Minor Request created with Laserfiche FormsScreenshot of Student Information Sheet created with Laserfiche FormsScreenshot of Laserfiche Quick Fields ScanningScreenshot of Laserfiche Quick Fields ScanningScreenshot of Laserfiche Mobile Repository