8 August 2008

Document management system developer Laserfiche has launched its new Rio enterprise content management (ECM) solution.

“The ECM industry has been deluged with complex and difficult-to-implement systems that have been cobbled together from many different products,” said CEO Nien-Ling Wacker. “The time is right for an innovative solution that is easy to purchase, deploy and administer. Rio transcends product boundaries to unite document management, business process management and transparent records management in a single enterprise solution.”

Laserfiche says that Rio allows organisations to buy named user licenses which provide a full range of ECM functionality, including workflow automation, Web-based document management, audit trail tracking, and capture tools that unify content located in disparate systems and formats.

“We chose Rio because it really made sense,” said Frank Hagy, CIO of the Florida League of Cities, an early adopter. “Because we have locations in different parts of the state, Rio will help us streamline administration, add additional functionality and reduce our annual support costs. It's a refreshing way to think about ECM.”

Rio is built on Microsoft technologies and uses Microsoft-standard tools, including MMC snap-ins, WMI and the .NET Framework, to simplify system administration. Laserfiche Workflow, built on the Windows Workflow Foundation, helps organisations move beyond simple document routing to automate everyday tasks, optimise business processes and share information with a wide variety of applications. Seamless integration with SharePoint enables users to work with both paper and electronic documents from a uniform, user-friendly interface.

“We design our products to make complex systems simpler,” said Wacker. “Rio provides an intuitive, easy-to-use ECM system that builds on their existing Microsoft infrastructure.”