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Overview

What is Laserfiche?

Laserfiche 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…

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Laserfiche is a versatile software that has been widely adopted by various departments and organizations to efficiently manage their …
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Top-Notch

9 out of 10
October 29, 2019
Incentivized
Laserfiche is used throughout the entire city as a records management repository. I am currently responsible for ensuring proper records …
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Best DMS ever

9 out of 10
October 14, 2019
Incentivized
Laserfiche is used in the schools where I managed the IT Department. We used it in archiving the student files, as well as each …
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Popular Features

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  • Document management (23)
    8.2
    82%
  • Content capture & imaging (23)
    8.0
    80%
  • Records management (22)
    8.0
    80%
  • File sync, storage & archiving (23)
    7.0
    70%
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Pricing

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Starter

$540

On Premise
per year per user

Starter

$600

Cloud
per year per user

Professional

$710

On Premise
per year per user (starts at 10 users)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.laserfiche.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $540 per year per user
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Product Demos

Laserfiche AP Processing Demo Part 2

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Intro to Laserfiche Client

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Workflow - Laserfiche

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Demo General LaserFiche.wmv

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Canon ScanFront 330 Laserfiche Integration by Accelerated Information Systems

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Laserfiche DocuSign Demo Video

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Features

Enterprise Content Management

Features related to managing business content and transactional content for enterprises.

8.1
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Laserfiche?

Laserfiche is an enterprise content management solution that automates processes, manages documents, and integrates applications across the organization. It works within the user's existing infrastructure by bringing their applications together, with the goal of simplifying how work gets done.

With Laserfiche’s code-free process designer, users can keep things moving quickly between departments without programming experience. Document management features digitize and organize business-critical information while keeping team members on the same page every step of the way.

Since 1987, Laserfiche has developed compliance and business process solutions for multiple industries, including:

•Local, State and Federal Government
•Higher Education and K-12
•Wealth Management
•Healthcare

The vendor promises to help organizations achieve rapid ROI with Laserfiche’s robust, out-of-the-box features or leverage powerful customization tools to develop solutions that meet their needs.

Laserfiche aims to streamline business operations so users can focus on the people and ideas that drive their businesses forward.

Laserfiche Features

Enterprise Content Management Features

  • Supported: Content capture & imaging
  • Supported: File sync, storage & archiving
  • Supported: Document management
  • Supported: Records management
  • Supported: Content search & retrieval
  • Supported: Enterprise content collaboration
  • Supported: Content publishing & creation
  • Supported: Security, risk management & information governance
  • Supported: Contract lifecycle management
  • Supported: Automated workflows
  • Supported: Mobile support
  • Supported: Integration

Laserfiche Screenshots

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 RepositoryScreenshot of The Laserfiche home screen is an intuitive starting point where users can access their open tasks, starred documents, forms and more.Screenshot of Creating and automating forms is a breeze with our easy-to-use software.Screenshot of Access a centralized repository from any web browser using the Laserfiche web client.Screenshot of With Laserfiche, you can easily access business process metrics to identify bottlenecks and assess process health.

Laserfiche Video

Discover how Laserfiche Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software can benefit your organization. From securely storing your information to automating routine processes, Laserfiche will help ensure you never lose a document again.

Laserfiche Integrations

Laserfiche Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesNorth America, South America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, China, India, South Pacific, Middle East, Australia
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese

Frequently Asked Questions

Laserfiche 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 fewer than 100 users. It combines content management with workflow tools that automate business processes. Built on the Microsoft platform, Laserfiche Avante allows users to drag and drop e-mails from Outlook® into Laserfiche.

Laserfiche starts at $540.

Xerox DocuShare, OpenText Content Suite Platform, and OnBase are common alternatives for Laserfiche.

Reviewers rate Automated workflows highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Laserfiche are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Laserfiche is a versatile software that has been widely adopted by various departments and organizations to efficiently manage their document processes. Users have praised its ability to handle both paper and digital documents, making it ideal for organizations looking to transition from a paper-based system. With Laserfiche, departments such as accounting and HR have been able to automate the identification of metadata and routing of documents, reducing manual tasks and improving efficiency. The software is also popular for its secure storage capabilities, allowing organizations to easily store and retrieve various types of documents, including financial aid documents, admissions documents, and employment documents. Additionally, users appreciate the intuitive interface of Laserfiche, which caters to individuals with varying levels of computer expertise. Moreover, Laserfiche Avante has proven valuable in automating processes, recording project data, and facilitating updates. Overall, Laserfiche enables organizations to streamline their document management processes, improve collaboration, and transition towards digitization and automation.

Efficient and Productive Tool: Users find Laserfiche to be an efficient and productive tool for streamlining accounts payable processes, increasing efficiency, and productivity. Many reviewers have stated that it helps them streamline their workflows and improve the overall efficiency of their operations.

Universal Access to Documents: The ability to have universal access to documents between office locations is highly valued by users. This feature eliminates the need for interoffice mail and allows for secure access between departments and employees. Several reviewers have praised this functionality for its convenience and effectiveness in facilitating collaboration among teams.

Backup and Version Control: Users appreciate the backup and version control feature of Laserfiche, as it allows them to easily retrieve old or outdated documents, ensuring accuracy, maintaining records, and complying with regulatory requirements. Many reviewers have highlighted how this feature gives them peace of mind knowing that they can always access previous versions of important documents when needed.

Difficult to Understand and Navigate: Many users have found the platform difficult to understand and navigate, citing a high learning curve and a lack of user-friendly features. They struggle with grasping the system's functionalities and find it challenging to locate specific tools or perform tasks efficiently.

Cumbersome Document Management Process: Users express frustration with the document management process, describing it as cumbersome and requiring too many clicks for simple tasks. They feel that streamlining this process would significantly improve their workflow efficiency.

Slow Performance: Several users have experienced slow performance on the platform, which hampers their productivity. The delays make it more time-consuming to complete tasks and can lead to frustration among users who rely on efficient software performance.

Based on user reviews, the most common recommendations for Laserfiche are to start with a small, definable need, take advantage of all features and ensure employee buy-in, and thoroughly map out workflows before implementing automation processes.

Users suggest starting with a specific and manageable task to gain competency and demonstrate the value of Laserfiche software. They also advise fully exploring all the features that Laserfiche offers to maximize its potential in streamlining workflows and improving productivity. Additionally, involving employees from the beginning is recommended to increase their acceptance and engagement with the software.

Before implementing automation processes, it is important to thoroughly analyze and map out existing workflows. This helps identify bottlenecks, streamline processes, and ensure a smooth transition to automated workflows.

Users also recommend connecting with other Laserfiche users through industry user groups for networking and sharing best practices. They highlight the importance of attending training sessions provided by Laserfiche, researching system compatibility, and planning a well-executed rollout across all departments.

Additionally, users find value in taking advantage of customization options and functionality for overall business integration. The support team at Laserfiche is often commended for their helpfulness and knowledge.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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December 02, 2016

Laserfiche for the win

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it in several departments (ITS, admissions, HR, business office), with several other departments waiting in line for their turn. It is being used to manage both employee and student documents from both paper and digital sources. Data is captured with online forms, and work flows are created to automate routing, naming, and other processes.
  • Workflow is amazing. Automating routing of files to appropriate folders to file naming based on metadata field values makes the scanning process a breeze.
  • Online forms allow students to easily submit pictures of their insurance card from their mobile phones, which then get inserted into Laserfiche with the appropriate metadata based on their authenticating credentials. No data entry on their part.
  • Laserfiche Connector allows us to capture data from any software app, such as our Student Information System, and then use that information to view the associated document. For example, we can look up a student's previous colleges in our SIS, select the desired college and then click on the Connector icon to view the transcript for that college.
  • There is a bit of a learning curve with Workflow and Online Forms, and taking the online courses or using a third party service provider for training costs money. We already pay quite a bit for the product. The online training should be free.
Any paper document or online form that needs to be easily retrieved needs to be put into Laserfiche. If you can describe how you manage documents, then you can build a workflow around that logic. Sometimes if a document is already easily retrievable from another system, such as a report, then it may not be appropriate to put into Laserfiche.
Enterprise Content Management (9)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Content capture & imaging
100%
10.0
File sync, storage & archiving
100%
10.0
Document management
100%
10.0
Records management
100%
10.0
Content search & retrieval
100%
10.0
Enterprise content collaboration
90%
9.0
Content publishing & creation
90%
9.0
Security, risk management & information governance
100%
10.0
Contract lifecycle management
90%
9.0
  • It is hard to quantify the value of the time saved, and the value of having documents immediately available at your fingertips, but we are relatively new to Laserfiche and it has already provided a high return on investment and the value will continue to grow as we implement it further.
  • Papervision
Document capture from multiple sources (scanning, web form, email, shared folder, etc.) is easier to manage and set up in Laserfiche. Integrating with third party software for document retrieval is easier in Laserfiche. Online form creation is possible with Laserfiche. The ability to export documents from Laserfiche in the event you decide to migrate is easier in Laserfiche.
Joy Beddingfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Laserfiche is being used by the City of Roanoke, Virginia as a technology solution in many departments. Some departments use it solely as a document management storage solution and other departments use it with workflow routing, forms, and approvals that allow the department(s) to go paperless and improve business processes. The biggest business problem we found was the acceptance of using Laserfiche workflow routing as a new business process over paper pushing documents.
  • Laserfiche does document imaging, storage, and image compression extremely well.
  • Laserfiche user administration is very easy, ties in with back-end systems using LDAP, SSO, and network security.
  • Laserfiche forms are easy to design, use, and configure quickly on the web.
  • Laserfiche workflow is extremely powerful, but is not easy to configure, set-up, and maintain especially if the workflow steps change. Transferring knowledge to another workflow developer was challenging, and once a workflow was configured it was not changed unless the person who wrote the workflow was available.
  • Laserfiche workflow has a Windows Explorer look and feel which is intimidating to everyday users who were not computer savvy. The process needed to be explained several times to users before it was understood how the workflow moved items from one folder to another. I have seen other workflow packages that were easier to use and grouped documents/approvals in a dashboard which would be a nice feature for Laserfiche to add.
  • Laserfiche Rio licenses are expensive and it is difficult to bring up an entire department and have them use Laserfiche correctly without having a full license. A read only license didn’t always give the access needed for users who only wanted to approve workflow documents and view activity.
Laserfiche is well suited for departments who have a lot of paper processes and who want to automate steps electronically and save on offsite document storage. I highly recommend Laserfiche for government agencies and paper heavy departments.
Enterprise Content Management (9)
94.44444444444444%
9.4
Content capture & imaging
100%
10.0
File sync, storage & archiving
100%
10.0
Document management
100%
10.0
Records management
100%
10.0
Content search & retrieval
100%
10.0
Enterprise content collaboration
80%
8.0
Content publishing & creation
90%
9.0
Security, risk management & information governance
100%
10.0
Contract lifecycle management
80%
8.0
  • Laserfiche has had a positive ROI impact on all departments that use the software. By improving work processes and inefficiencies many departs saved hours a day once Laserfiche was implemented.
  • The Commissioner of Revenue's Office had the largest ROI of any departments that I bought up on Laserfiche as well as having the lowest cost to bring up users and scanners.
  • The Sheriff's office was the most difficult to bring up because of the back-log and historical documents that needed to be scanned and tagged with meta data. I would recommend using a third party to scan back documents if it is more than 3 months internal scanning.
I did not compare Laserfiche against other products because the City of Roanoke, Virginia had already purchased Laserfiche 6 years prior. Once I learned how to use Laserfiche and the benefits, I decided that we needed to upgrade to Laserfiche RIO to be able to use some of the new functionality and improve business processes and expand the capabilities to more departments.
Santosh Mathew, PMP, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Laserfiche was initially used as simply a way to scan and organize paper files, prior to my arrival. After I took hold of the product, I saw that there were many features that weren't implemented, and began several projects to utilize Laserfiche to add efficiency to the business. From automating the AP approval process, through capturing digital signatures for Account approvals, to creating a site for clients to access and download their product drawings, there were so many features that the product provided that we were still tapping into.
  • Quickfields is an add-on that provides zones that can be set up for repeatable processes. So if you have a PO, or Invoice, the zones allow you to identify, OCR, and quickly index, so you can process thousands of documents, automatically, without manual input or intervention.
  • Lots of add-on products to extend the functionality of your MFP's or scanners for digitizing paper.
  • If your documents have sensitive information, there are many adjustable controls to help with those industry or company specific needs.
  • While it is a great product, integration with some databases, if they are not standard MS SQL, can provide challenges. This can be frustrating as we were trying to input data from a Progress database, and it was difficult. Once it was done, it enhanced what we were able to auto fill within Laserfiche significantly.
  • Laserfiche is a large platform. Lots of options. So it can get pricy depending on implementation. There are multiple licensing options, and they range from affordable to very expensive, so you have to be diligent in understanding what your business needs. Don't overbuy, you can always add on. And know your limits, as implementing the various pieces are more difficult at the user level, changing behaviors. The software works fine, but those that have to use it, don't always comply.
If you are a one person business, this may be overkill. Other than that, if you have 2 or more and have to process, file, and keep any sort of business documents that you need to be able to get to quickly, this is a great product for you.
  • Positive: We were able to automate digital signatures of Journal Entries. This helped in our Sarbanes Oxley audits for completeness, and speed of which we passed audits.
  • Positive: By automating the Accounts Payable process, we reduced manual work by 30%, automated the transfer of documents between offices, saving on postage costs, and reduced manual entry mistakes by nearly 100%
  • Neutral: We bought a lot of the software early on that we weren't able to implement, so we were paying for maintenance for those products, though not using it. Their licensing model has changed a little to alleviate this.
Laserfiche was already selected, but had other companies that used Documentum or other 3rd party scanning solutions. Laserfiche was usually more cost effective than the other document management systems, and much easier to use.
The only factor is that Laserfiche is another cost when you look at annual maintenance. Some of the larger Enterprise Resource Systems (ERPs) have some of the similar document management and workflow features built-in, so there would need to be that cost benefit analysis done if a larger ERP was implemented.
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Finance

Operations

IT

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Project Manager who took some of the training from the 3rd party Laserfiche Reseller

Outsourced additional items to 3rd party reseller

  • AP Automation
  • Journal Entry Approvals
  • Quality Cards Scanning for customers
  • Journal Entry approval helped us automate and simplify accounting SOX audits.
  • Continued digital workflow and digital signature implementation will help reduce wasted time waiting for approvals and reduce use of paper/printing and scanning.
Aaron White | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Laserfiche (with Quick Fields plug-in) is utilized by AP for AP invoicing and document warehousing. Our plants scan the invoices to a shared drive and enter the info into our ERP. Our Corp AP pulls the docs into Laserfiche via Quick Fields (using barcode recognition and metadata, which is pulled from our ERP via SQL, Quick Fields automatically sorts, stores, and categorizes by year and vendor).
  • Document warehousing
  • Process efficiency via digital automation
  • Paper reduction
  • Support (they're very knowledgable but always seem annoyed to help - I'm speaking to our LF support vendor which is a 3rd party, not the LF corporate office)
  • Quick Fields "Recent Sessions" is the springboard for that process and there's no way to sort the sessions which is frustrating when dealing with 50+ separate sessions
Ask about all the different plug-ins. Laserfiche LF is an umbrella product that has multiple uses (approval routing, document routing, document warehousing, processing applicants, etc.). They now sell the product as Rio or Avante so make sure you understand the difference between the two. It's pretty complex to setup (although their techs are very intelligent and will run the implementation). It's great for AP invoicing; future usage for us may include applicant tracking.
  • Cohesion amongst our Plant AP and Corp AP departments increased
  • Cost reduction due to reduced paper usage offsets some of the product cost
  • AP employees are much more efficient, we were able to eliminate a full time position (DID NOT FIRE! Just turned the position into a part time position when the AP lady in that position retired).
No products, just the attempt of manually scanning paper (or saving those already in digital format) into Microsoft folder tree structures (which were not searchable by amounts, vendor names, invoice numbers, etc. like they are in Laserfiche). LF obviously blows that ugly process away!
It's perfect for AP invoicing, our AP ladies may quit on the spot if we ever got rid of it!
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