LaserFiche Document Imaging has made another step into the global marketplace by agreeing to become a strategic business partner of ESRI.
In recent months, LaserFiche value-added resellers (VARs) have had success linking document management software to related GIS files in a variety of applications. Chris Wacker, senior vice president of sales and marketing, and Jim King, director of education and training, finalized details of the business partnership earlier this month.
“ESRI and LaserFiche are good strategic partners in that they are both widely used in the government market,” said Todd Luchinsky, ESRI’s coordinator of business partners. “Since LaserFiche ties into ESRI products easily, we expect this relationship will make both of our software offerings most useful to customers.”
Under the agreement, LaserFiche and ESRI will collaborate in development and marketing activities. In addition, the firms and their resellers may pursue business opportunities together.
“We recognize the value of governments and landowners having access to all documentation related to GIS sites, on the same screen,” Wacker said. “ESRI agreed that LaserFiche’s ease of integration was a good fit with their product. Their worldwide clients will want to know how LaserFiche helps them work smarter.”
SIGSA (Sistemas de Información Geográfica, S.A. de C.V.), Mexico’s largest private map-making company, has used LaserFiche and ESRI in tandem for a tax collection and property statistics application in the resort city of Acapulco. Installed six months ago, the system also works with the city’s accounting software, according to Lilia Bosio, Latin American regional manager for LaserFiche.
SIGSA, a VAR of both LaserFiche and ESRI, also has linked the document imaging software in a number of mapping projects for PEMEX, Mexico’s huge petroleum and chemical enterprise.
Another LaserFiche application with ESRI has been installed in Savage, MN by VAR The Crabtree Companies of Eagan, MN. According to company President Rich Crabtree, the integation was faciliated by LaserFiche’s Integrator’s Toolkit. Crabtree said his LaserFiche training on the product made the job simple, adding that four other cities are waiting their turn for the integration.
Clayton Baer, also of Crabtree, said the LaserFiche/ESRI integration is working seamlessly for Savage. “We set up the ESRI system with two buttons that allows the user to click on a property ID number (PI) or by address and pull up all the specific information they need from LaserFiche, which could include water and sewer maps, deeds, permits and even council minutes that might have addressed the topic. The custom button automatically launches LaserFiche without having to log on or use a password.”
