Case Study: Bremer County achieves rapid digitization, automated state submissions and $2,500 annual savings with Laserfiche

Bremer County - Customer Case Study

Bremer County, IA, was struggling with a low-adoption, labor-intensive document management process: staff spent hours scanning and manually indexing land records, repeatedly avoided the system, and couldn’t integrate with the state’s land records service (ILR), costing the county $2,500 in penalties. Facing a costly mandatory upgrade to their legacy ECM, the county needed a more efficient, CLRIS/ILR-approved solution that staff would actually use.

Bremer County selected Laserfiche (via Advanced Systems, Inc.), deploying a 24-user Avante system with Quick Fields, Import Agent and SDK to six departments within two months. Automated Zone OCR, Workflow and a custom XML export integration enabled fast, accurate indexing and direct submission to the state, cutting scanning backlogs from months to days, eliminating the $2,500 fines, reclaiming staff time, improving user adoption, and allowing secure expansion into the Sheriff’s Office with centralized control and redaction capabilities.

Bremer County

Nate Koehler

IT Administrator