OPG-3: To SharePoint with Laserfiche, or without; that is the question.

 According to Microsoft executives, “Laserfiche is a SharePoint accelerator.” Here’s why.

SharePoint has a great user interface and Message Board. It’s a simple file-sharing system. On the back-end, SharePoint gobbles up documents to store them as binary code—ones and zeros—stored within SQL. Binary is efficient for file storage but not with documents. What if the document is fifty pages? What if it’s three hundred pages? Using one’s and zero’s is efficient for SQL file storage, but not for launching and storing a large documents or large volumes of documents. 

SharePoint is more difficult to write and code for meta-tags and Workflows. As a scanning on-ramp, SharePoint lacks what seems very simple for Laserfiche users; including bar-coding, OCR Zone Capture, and auto-naming and auto-filing. 

Laserfiche is the best document management system (ECM) available. On the back-end of Laserfiche, all documents are stored in a Hexi-decimal system within SQL. The first document stored with Laserfiche will have a 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 wrapped around it, pointing to the document in math code. Why? Because Laserfiche founder Nein Ling-Wacker was a math genius, and when it comes to being the best at document management, flawless math coding is our imperative core.

When you begin to move documents via Workflows, SharePoint must manipulate binary code, while Laserfiche uses simple pointers to appear like the document moved, but only the pointer moved. 

Great document management is more than binary file storage. So, share your files in SharePoint, and use Laserfiche as the document management back-end, to move and store large volumes of documents.