The Special Education Department of Cincinnati, Ohio Public Schools was in a race against time. The department need to have a document imaging solution up, running and with the records of special education students at three schools in the database prior to the upcoming retirement of the head of the department.

The head of the department had promised to get the staff out of the business of working with paper files and it was coming down to the last few months. The paper files were literally pushing staff out of their offices. In addition, they where wearing themselves out keeping up with requests for information from authorized personnel.

They were looking at other document imaging companies, but none of them was able to show that they could get the system up and running soon enough to meet their deadline. All of the senior officials in the department were present for a demonstration of Laserfiche document imaging software. The demonstration stressed how simple Laserfiche is to install, easy to teach and easy to use. A live demonstration was able to support those claims and the local Laserfiche VAR was able to guarantee that they could meet the department's schedule.

The Laserfiche demonstration impressed the officials, and at the end of the meeting the leader of the group said, 'We're buying it.' There was a little delay while the department pulled together the purchase order, but the installation was completed, with training, they are on target to meet their scanning goals.

Eventually, the department plans to use a password-protected intranet application of Laserfiche WebLink. This will allow them to store, retrieve and distribute the files of the 5,000 students spread through Cincinnati's 80 public schools who are in their jurisdiction.

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