Laserfiche Debuts Higher Ed Package of Business Automation Processes
Laserfiche has introduced a
version of its Laserfiche Business Process Library that is specifically
designed to provide services for higher education institutions.
The Business Process Library is a collection of prebuilt forms-based business process templates
designed to
eliminate many of the steps organizations take in conducting their
business by
deploying faster automation.
A
package of higher education-specific
process templates within the Business Process Library
provides some of the most
common business processes used by colleges and universities. In most
cases,
this means automation now takes less time and resources that can be
redirected
toward other duties.
The
Business Process Library
has a large inventory of process diagrams, workflows, template fields
and
reports that can be reconfigured to an institution's specific
requirements to
aid such administrative functions as application review, transcript
processing,
changes of major or minor and diploma requests.
Other
templates in the higher
education package include:
- Course
add or drop requests;
- Faculty
and staff requisition;
- FERPA
authorization;
- Transcript
evaluation; and
- Tuition
payment agreements.
Functions
can be customized
so, for instance, some can be accessed on mobile devices and others
cannot and
to accommodate the varying demands for authorization. Once each process
is
complete, built into the system is archiving of documents on a
predetermined
retention schedule designed to meet compliance requirements.
The
Business Process Library
is part of Laserfiche 10, an enterprise content management system that
includes
analytics and performance dashboard that give colleges and universities
insight
into workloads and staff performance.
The Texas
A&M University
system uses Laserfiche as a shared service across 11
university campuses, three
state agencies and a health science center.
"IT
is usually seen as a
spender of money," said Chris Huff, network systems administrator at
Texas
A&M's College of Engineering, in a prepared statement. "But by reengineering our
onboarding process,
we saved about 45 minutes per new hire. This allows our employees to
invest the
time saved into other job duties."
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.