Intellera teams up with CIBC Run for the Cure 2009

Team Intellera participated in the annual CIBC Run for the Cure, which took place in Montreal on October 4th, 2009. CIBC Run for the Cure is a Canada-wide event benefitting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the leading national volunteer-based organization in Canada dedicated to creating a future without breast cancer.
Team Intellera members raised over $5200 for this worthy cause, in a fun-filled and inspirational event. Way to go team!
Intellera presents at “Vitrine technologique”
Intellera hosted a presentation at “Vitrine technologique” in Quebec City recently, highlighting the benefits of Business Process Management, Workflow automation, and Document Management in government agencies and municipalities. Speaking for Intellera was Patrick Lyman, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. We were very pleased to include a presentation from Michel Caron, from our client Teknion Roy & Breton, a major manufacturer of office furniture systems. Michel discussed the successful implementation of WorkflowGen and how Teknion Roy & Breton were automating over 20 business processes to increase efficiency and productivity in their organization.
Vitrine technologique, sponsored by the government of Quebec, is a showcase for IT solution providers to meet with prospective clients from the public sector.

Presenting at Vitrine technologique
New release of Intellera Help Desk is now available
The Intellera Help Desk, powered by WorkflowGen, continues to provide our clients with the ability to post new tickets and track outstanding ones in a fully bilingual environment.
The new version of the Intellera Help Desk will feature a host of great enhancements such as:
- A streamlined user interface to reduce the number of clicks to post
- Experience WorkflowGen’s Remote Approval: Reply to help desk requests from our team via e-mail with MS Outlook, BlackBerry, iPhone, or any other standard e-mail applications
- A new automatic knowledge base searches our support site FAQs based on your questions to provide immediate suggestions
- Integration to Intellera’s client management systems so you can view and update information about your purchased solutions
- The ability to post tickets to report bugs, request service, and report software issues about specific ongoing projects with Intellera coaches
- A restructured messaging section to quickly view your ticket history information in one page.
As always, we encourage and welcome your feedback – please submit your comments below.
Intellera to exhibit at Colloque RIMQ 2009
Intellera is proud to be participating in the upcoming Colloque RIMQ 2009, taking place September 13-15 at Manoir des Sables in Orford, Quebec.
RIMQ (Reseau de l’informatique municipale du Québec) supports the exchange of information and knowledge of information resources in the municipalities of Quebec to optimize business processes among its member organizations and thus to better serve its citizens.
The RIMQ has 47 member cities, which represent nearly 70% of the population of Quebec. The association also includes 28 members partners among the leading suppliers of the municipal area. For more information about RIMQ, visit www.rimq.com
Intellera to attend eConcordia Summit 2009
Intellera will be attending the upcoming eConcordia Summit, to take place in Montreal on September 10th. The eConcordia Summit 2009 will welcome professionals, experts, practitioners, researchers and educators to meet and network with high-profile eleaders who will address how technological advances are impacting the way we learn today.
We look forward to participating in this exciting and informative event.
Global food manufacturer selects Intellera for workflow and BPM
Intellera team members have been selected to participate in a large BPM rollout for a global food manufacturer running SAP. The WorkflowGen BPM solution will be integrating with SAP to provide best-of-breed workflow to their Product Life Cycle and Master Data Management processes.
New White Paper: “Open Architecture and Integration Methods using WorkflowGen BPM”
Download our new White Paper, entitled “Open Architecture and Integration Methods using WorkflowGen BPM”. In it, you will learn about the available range of options for integrating external applications with WorkflowGen, a 100% web-based solution built on Microsoft’s industry-leading .NET platform.
Patrick Lyman completes Laserfiche® certification process
Patrick Lyman, Intellera’s co-founder and Chief Technology and Process Officer, has recently completed his training and certification with our new partner Laserfiche. He blogs about his experience during the week-long process at their Long Beach, California head office – click here to read his observations and more about how this partnership will expand and enhance Intellera’s BPM and ECM solutions to better serve the needs of our clients.
WorkflowGen helps healthcare provider St. Michael’s House manage their operations
We had developed our own in-house solution which highlighted the benefits of having a web-based workflow solution, but quickly realized that the cost of developing a scalable and robust solution that was as powerful as WorkflowGen was not realistic. We found that WorkflowGen offered the best combination of functionality, ease of use and critically low costs both in the short- and long-term.
Neil Kelly, IT Consultant, St. Michael’s House
Click here to read the case study.
USC streamlines faculty record document management – case study in “Campus Technology”
Read about USC’s campus-wide implementation of Laserfiche’s Document Management solution in a recent case study published in “Campus Technology” magazine. According to David Haugland, associate vice provost, the university is realizing benefits ranging from the simple (cutting down on inter-office mail and reducing storage and processing costs) to the critical (disaster recovery, transparency, and compliance).
Disaster recovery has really been the catalyst for enterprise-wide adoption of Laserfiche. All institutions of higher education–especially when it comes to stimulus funding–are facing higher compliance issues. We’re able to report accurately and quickly, and that affects everybody.
David Haugland, associate vice provost, USC
Click to read the Case Study
The Insider issue 4 – June 2009
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New Release: WorkflowGen 5.1.7
Intellera is pleased to announce that Release 5.1.7 of WorkflowGen is now available.
New features of this release include:
- Overdue Pre-Notification, enabling notifications to be set up prior to an action coming due.
- Database Scaling, allows for the use of optimized read/write distributed databases across a wide area network to improve performance and user experience. Database Scaling may be used in a single production instance, or in a web farm environment.
In addition to these new features, various improvements have been made in the administration module performance, and the new release addresses other important bug fixes. Click here to read the release notes.
Expanding our education at the CAUBO conference

Intellera participated in the recent CAUBO 2009 conference hosted by the University of Ottawa. We had the opportunity to meet and speak with many of the CAUBO delegates who work in higher education across Canada about the types of challenges that they face when it comes to workflow, electronic and paper forms, records and documents.
Intellera donated a SOLIO solar powered charger that was given away at the Closing luncheon – congratulations to the winner Claudio Brun del Re from the University of Ottawa!
Thanks to the hundreds of people who stopped by our booth at the conference – we appreciate your interest in Intellera.
Intellera joins Laserfiche® as value-added reseller
Montreal, Canada – June 9, 2009 — Laserfiche® welcomes Intellera (www.intellera.com) as an authorized Value Added Reseller (VAR) that will provide electronic document management solutions for customers in North America.
“Our proven track record as a systems integrator specializing in business process management (BPM) and Workflow automation solutions, combined with the addition of the Laserfiche offering to our portfolio further establishes our unique value proposition in the marketplace,” said Jonathan Maldoff, president of Intellera. “We will now offer a full suite of services and solutions to meet our clients’ needs in the areas of document and records management, electronic forms, workflow and collaboration, and business intelligence.”
James Every, Laserfiche vice president of VAR Business Management said, “Intellera staff have over 16 years of business and technology experience and they are passionate about solving business process challenges. This experience and enthusiasm will surely contribute to their success. We welcome them as part of the Laserfiche team.”
About Laserfiche®
Laserfiche® creates simple and elegant document management solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, more than 25,000 organizations have used Laserfiche software to help staff find what they need in seconds, collaborate more effectively and complete daily tasks more efficiently. Engineered for rapid deployment, Laserfiche easily integrates with the primary business applications staff use every day.
Laserfiche distributes software through a worldwide network of value-added resellers (VARs), who tailor solutions to clients’ individual needs. In recognition of the outstanding training and support we provide to our resellers, the Laserfiche VAR program has received the Five-Star Rating from Computer Reseller News/VARBusiness magazine. For more information, please go to www.laserfiche.com.
About Intellera
Intellera delivers cost effective, high-value business process improvements to over 200 loyal clients across North America. The company combines leading-edge tailored business process management (BPM) and enterprise content management (ECM) software with best of breed professional services to achieve sustainable results in business process efficiency. Intellera was founded in 2001 and is based in Montreal, Canada. For more information, visit www.intellera.com.
Contacts:
Francine Marlenée, Public Relations Specialist, Laserfiche
562-988-1688, ext. 211, Email: fmarlenee@laserfiche.com
Mia Saks, Marketing Coordinator, Intellera
514-341-0606, ext. 388, Email: mia.saks@intellera.com
University of Texas discovers something special with WorkflowGen
Once we discovered WorkflowGen, we knew that we were looking at something special. Being able to design workflow processes using forms, without formal programming, was extremely important to us. We plan to extend WorkflowGen processes to other areas since it is so easy to design and implement them quickly and economically. We are very satisfied with the product.
Gary L. Tate, Facilities Management Assistant Director
Global, diversified corporation Mitsui uses WorkflowGen integrated to SAP
The concept of the WorkflowGen product is excellent: it enables the focus on the workflow function; its robust design facilitates the quick implementation of new functions; and it leverages the core Web technologies (.NET, XML, RSS Feed, Web Services, etc.) The tool is easy to use, the design and various settings of WorkflowGen are intuitive, and finally the cost performance is very high.
Masaki Takahiko, Mitsui Global IS Enhacement Dept.
The Insider issue 3 – May 2009
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Intellera at CAUBO 2009
Intellera is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at CAUBO’s 2009 Annual Conference, taking place June 14 – 16 in Ottawa. CAUBO stands for the Canadian Association of University Business Officers and this year is the 66th anniversary of their annual conference. The CAUBO conference gathers over 450 senior administrators and is the largest non-academic university business and administration conference in Canada. Visit us at booth #411.
Intellera participated in the Microsoft SharePoint Summit in Montreal (April 6-9,2009)
http://www.sharepointsummit2009.com/index_e.htm
The SharePoint Summit brings executives, technology managers and analysts together to share real world problems and solutions, across a multitude of industries and applications. The result for all is a better understanding of SharePoint’s potential, capabilities, and limitations.
Our resident process guru, Patrick Lyman, wrote a post about the Summit in our blog – read his insights:
http://intellera.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/review-of-the-sharepoint-summit-2009/
University of Minnesota relies on Intellera to find solutions outside the box
The University of Minnesota does not endorse any product or company. I have observed, however, that Intellera has consistently demonstrated its willingness to be creative and to work with us to find solutions outside the box. I feel we have received outstanding customer service. From our first interaction with you, all the way to working with your Help Desk, everyone with whom we worked at Intellera has been exceptionally professional, knowledgeable, and prompt.
Susan Geller, Business Analyst and Project Manager, University of Minnesota
WorkflowGen Mobile Approval supports document approvals
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
In response to client demand, Intellera today released extended functionality in its Mobile Approval module which optionally sends documents to approvers for review through email. This feature will significantly enhance productivity in any document-based approval process.
UAP achieves major boost in productivity and accountability with WorkflowGen CAPEX
Using WorkflowGen CAPEX, we’ve been able to dramatically increase our control over the capital expenditure process. We have hundreds of users in the field making purchase requests, and prior to implementing this tool we had very limited visibility into the process. In addition, requests were taking too long to approve causing hold-ups and confusion. Now with WorkflowGen, there has been a major boost in both productivity and accountability – what had been a weakness before, is now a strength.
Gaetan Mainville, Director, Information Systems, UAP inc.
Air Canada Cargo uses WorkflowGen to obtain Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
No matter what software product we were going to use, we needed advice from an experienced partner who could recommend best practices in the process automation field and ensure that we maximize the return on our investment from the business process management solution selected. Intellera is a highly trusted consulting partner. They have escorted and assisted us from concept through implementation.
André Forest, IT Manager, Air Canada Cargo
Click here to read the Case Study.
NTD Apparel and Intellera – a fully collaborative relationship
Intellera quickly transformed the critical path of our order process to a fully collaborative automated process, resulting in a significant cost reduction and a 100% production increase over a period of three years. Even more, the implementation was completed with minimal disruption to our day-to-day operation and there was no need to hire additional people.
Andrew Hattem, Senior Vice President, NTD Apparel
Click here to read the Case Study.
WorkflowGen BPM automates Korean Air’s key client service process
Wherever there is a form and a process, WorkflowGen BPM can be applied very quickly to convert a manual process into a systematic process. Besides WorkflowGen BPM’s simple and straightforward method to handle form and flow, it allows interfacing to external resources, at any step of a flow, a snap.
Inkee Lee, Vice President and Deputy Director, ITDC for Korean Air
Click here to read the Case Study.
Three essential ingredients turn Black’s Photo into raving fans
Intellera provided three essential ingredients: they understood our business; they understood our needs; and with their industry knowledge, they were impressively fast in terms of getting us up and running. Essentially, Intellera had it all figured out.
Tim Hammond, ex-Vice President, Black Photo Corporation
Deloitte identifies over 200 processes to optimize using WorkflowGen
After we defined the processes to automate, we launched the WorkflowGen solution within one week. More than 200 processes have been identified for optimization with WorkflowGen. We also use this product as a gateway to our ERP applications because the workflow features provided by ERP systems are usually too complex and cumbersome to implement.
Gauthier Boulot, Web Department Manager, Deloitte France
Intellera assists Sanmina-SCI with complex processes
Intellera was instrumental in the success of the Quotation process implementation in our plant. They quickly realized our challenges and suggested many improvements to achieve our objectives. They offered us customized training on various levels and with high emphasis on how to expedite the implementation phase. We have also found their technical team highly professional and fast to respond when we were under-staffed and we needed some external assistance to meet our deadlines. We have consulted with Intellera on many occasions on complex processes to get advice.
Daniel Meilleur, Program/Quotation Manager, Sanmina-SCI Corporation









