Iraq may seem a country in crisis to most, but to new Laserfiche VAR Mohammed Qasim, it is the land of opportunity. QasimIn his first year selling Laserfiche, Qasim, Executive Director of New Visions IQ, has joined the elite Winners Circle club of top VARs and is now in talks with key government agencies that could position Laserfiche as the ECM system running the new government emerging from the ouster of Kamil Al Maliki. A great deal of Qasim’s optimism comes from inroads Laserfiche has already made in many of those key agencies such as the ministries of Oil, Foreign Affairs and Justice. Years ago those agencies purchased Laserfiche systems, but as the country’s government languished, so did its IT infrastructure. The ouster of the old prime minister and the installation of a new administration is reenergizing staff in many of those agencies, Qasim says, and Laserfiche is a perfect vehicle for turning that optimism into very real improvements in how that government operates. “Because of the government’s behavior in the past it makes it very hard for a private company to anticipate their future needs or behavior,” Qasim says. “But with Laserfiche they don’t need to make huge upfront investments to quickly move their offices toward much greater efficiency. As they see that efficiency it is inspiring these agencies to expand their efforts.” In the past year, Iraq’s Ministry of Oil expanded its Laserfiche system from its Baghdad base to 12 regional offices across the country, Qasim says. Now he is working on tying those offices together with a Laserfiche Rio system that will be the basis for serving the ministry nationwide. Qasim is also upgrading the Laserfiche system that has been serving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2007 to Laserfiche Rio. He expects that in the next year all the embassies in the country will be tied into the same Laserfiche ECM system. Babylon University is also expanding its existing Laserfiche system to several hundred new users and Qasim is talking to the ministries of Education and Justice about installing Laserfiche there. Qasim and select New Vision staff will be coming to Empower 2015 in Anaheim in January to see how to further serve the needs of these agencies through Laserfiche. Helping these vital agencies grow helps Iraq grow, Qasim says. “When we first sit down with these agency officials all they are talking about is needing an archiving system,” he says. “When we show them how much more they can do with Laserfiche they start to think differently about their plans and their agencies. We’re no longer talking about tools to help find documents; we’re talking about ways to better serve the people of Iraq. That’s something that’s been missing here for a long time.”
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:51:03 +0000
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