Laserfiche Avante

The Client and Server form the core of the Laserfiche enterprise content management solution, allowing you to manage content, mitigate content-related risks, and put information to use for business people and processes. Laserfiche begins with basic content services, and adds document capture, library services, and a wide variety of other tools and functionality to improve the flow of business.

The Foundation of Your Enterprise Content Repository

The Laserfiche Client is the user-friendly software interface to a centralized electronic content repository, and includes a variety of tools for managing the resources it contains. Functionality of the baseline Laserfiche product includes document capture and image enhancement, storage and archiving for documents and unstructured information, easy-to-use document organization tools, annotation and metadata features, search and retrieval, collaboration and content distribution, and extensive security controls.

Expand Your Content Management Capabilities

Basic Laserfiche functionality can be expanded with additional Laserfiche product modules, including records management tools; Web distribution via Web Access and WebLink; business process management via Workflow, Agenda Manager, and Quick Fields; and personal portal functionality with the Laserfiche SharePoint integration. In addition, the Laserfiche Toolkit provides the resources necessary to customize your implementation of Laserfiche and create integrations with third-party applications.

Basic Functionality

Key Components
• Powerful content repository organized in a familiar folder tree structure.
• User-friendly client interface for enterprise content management.
• Flexible administration and repository management tools.
• Document image capture with Laserfiche Scanning.
• Capture images from a digital camera or cell phone with PhotoDocs.
• Image capture of electronic documents with Laserfiche Snapshot.
• E-mail documents directly from your repository.
• Import and work with electronic documents, such as Word files or PDFs, alongside your scanned documents.

Searching
• Search the contents of the entire repository (imaged and electronic documents) for a specific word or phrase.
• Search the text of electronic documents, find what you need despite alternate spellings or typos using fuzzy search, and see your search result hits in context to determine whether you've located the document you need.
• Search for documents or folders based on their properties, user-defined metadata, or text.
• Perform basic and advanced searches through simple user interfaces or with user-provided syntax.

Image and Document Tools
• Annotate images with drawing tools, redactions, sticky notes, and attachments.
• Add user-defined metadata such as tags, relationships between documents, and customized field information.
• Collaborate with check-in/check-out, versioning, and document linking.
• Store documents in Laserfiche directly from Microsoft Office.
• Export, print or e-mail different file formats directly from the Laserfiche repository.

System Administration
• Administer your repository and server from a single installation on any workstation on the network with the Laserfiche Administration Console.
• Monitor connections and port use, set up server administrators, and take your repository offline or online for maintenance.
• Secure information using a flexible, granular security system to restrict access to folders, documents, or metadata; create or add users and groups to ensure that the right users have access to the right information.
• Create user-definable metadata with which your users can add information to documents—and make them more searchable.
• Manage administrative settings for your storage volumes, your full-text search engine, your recycle bin, and many other features.
• Track changes to your content repository using Audit Trail.

Installation and Support

Server
• Installed on a central Server computer, accessible with a variety of Laserfiche thin and thick clients.
• Includes a dedicated full-text indexing and search service.
• Works with a SQL database server and volume storage files that can be distributed to other hard drives or computers to reduce the load on your server and take advantage of additional storage space.

Clients
• Thick client application can be installed on workstations on your network for fast, transparent access to the content repository.
• Web Access, the full-featured thin client, and WebLink, the read-only portal, can be centrally administered with a single installation and accessed from a variety of browsers, operating systems and mobile devices.
• Both the thick client and the full-featured thin client include scanning modules for image capture.

Authentication
• Single sign-on with Windows domain account in Active Directory.
• Password authentication using integrated LDAP support.
• Password authentication using Laserfiche accounts.

Security
• Secure documents and metadata through access control lists, security tags, feature controls, and privileges.
• Granular document control using inheritance and folder scope.
• Organize users into groups for easier security maintenance.
• Dynamic security using advanced filter expressions.
• Recycle bin to protect against accidental or unauthorized deletions.
• Secure deletions per DoD 5022.22 M compatible protocols.
• Support for SSL secure communication.

System Administration

MMC
• Manage your Laserfiche Servers and repositories through a Laserfiche Administration Manager snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
• Manage Server settings such as current connections, port use, and license handling.
• Manage repository settings such as users and groups, user-defined metadata types, storage volumes, indexing, auditing, and security.
• Administer document handling with collaborative tools and recycle bin settings.

Event Tracing
• Troubleshoot with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), supplemented by HTTP logging and real-time "console mode."

Windows Event Log
• Monitor health of the system with a Laserfiche errors and warnings reporting system integrated with the Windows Event Log.

Performance Counters
• Monitor basic Laserfiche Server activity using performance counters and Windows Performance Monitor to help you correctly allocate resources.

WMI
• Automate administrative tasks with Windows PowerShell through Laserfiche Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or .NET interface.

Environment

Server OS
• Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 x64.

Databases
• MS SQL Server 2003, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g.

Client OS
• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.

Protocols
• HTTP/WebDAV, DCOM, .NET.

Clustering
• Support for Active/Passive Failover.

Authentication
• Integrated Windows Authentication, Kerberos, Laserfiche Authentication, LDAP

Virtualization
• VMWare Infrastructure, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Server

Webinars

Have questions? Get answers in our document management Webinars. We present over 500 Webinars each year on a variety of document management topics.

Available Tracks: Introductory Sessions Records Management Series Financial Services Track Local Government Track

Healthcare Track Product Focus Federal Government Track IT Track

Workshops

Reserve your seat at a free educational event

Take advantage of face-to-face learning opportunities at a workshop near you. You'll engage the experts and see solutions in action.

Regional Training

All Regional Training events, with the exception of the User Workshop, are held from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily. Registration and continental breakfast is available from 8:30AM to 9:00AM. Lunch is from 12:00PM to 1:00PM.

The price of each session is per day and includes continental breakfast, lunch and morning and afternoon refreshment breaks.

Tradeshows

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from industry experts and your peers on trends, tips and techniques to unleash the rich collaborative power of Laserfiche.