Much more than just print management software

Much more than just print management software

Most business processes were originally designed from moving paper from one place to another.

Nowadays, we still tend to print the paper that we need to move from one place to another…Kappris is here to help you print in a smart way– without paper – and often, without printers.

Smart workflow automation to digitise your office

Let’s face it, no business enjoys paying for administration and owners constantly strive to reduce the cost of business operations. Kappris Print Management software gives you smooth processes with just a click of a button, freeing up time and reducing the use and movement of paper.

Sending your letters with digital signatures, safe and securely

Quite rightly so, there’s a lot of fear about using digital signatures in the legal sector. After all, it’s a criminal offence if a solicitor’s letterhead is misused.

But fear won’t stop innovation happening. In fact, Kappris addresses all of the risks around using digital signatures, in particular, in the most frequent used scenario – sending out a letter.

Sending your letters with digital signatures, safe and securely

Quite rightly so, there’s a lot of fear about using digital signatures in the legal sector. After all, it’s a criminal offence if a solicitor’s letterhead is misused.

But fear won’t stop innovation happening. In fact, Kappris addresses all of the risks around using digital signatures, in particular, in the most frequent used scenario – sending out a letter.

Sending your letters with digital signatures, safe and securely

Quite rightly so, there’s a lot of fear about using digital signatures in the legal sector. After all, it’s a criminal offence if a solicitor’s letterhead is misused.

But fear won’t stop innovation happening. In fact, Kappris addresses all of the risks around using digital signatures, in particular, in the most frequent used scenario – sending out a letter.

Sending your letters with digital signatures, safe and securely

Quite rightly so, there’s a lot of fear about using digital signatures in the legal sector. After all, it’s a criminal offence if a solicitor’s letterhead is misused.

But fear won’t stop innovation happening. In fact, Kappris addresses all of the risks around using digital signatures, in particular, in the most frequent used scenario – sending out a letter.

Rubber stamp documents without paper or a rubber stamp!

Even in tomorrow’s digital world there’ll still be a need to have a ‘rubber stamp’. Our electronic rubber stamps and signatures are designed just for you and are used in many ways including;

 

  • Certifying digital document to be true and accurate copies.
  • Approving invoices to be paid.
  • Acknowledging receipt of documents on a specific date.
An approval process that works in any application

We have a client in Asia who needs funds to be released from their London office.

The Asia office sends a form to the accounts team in London, who must have approval before funds are released.

They print the form, run to a partner to get the signature and only then they can release funds. They then scan and save the signed form into their system for compliance.

If we receive information electronically in the first place, let’s keep it that way!

Does this scenario sound familiar? How often is a form printed in order to get a signature for it to then be scanned back?

Kappris users have:
  • Security and control of every digital signature, including persons authorised to sign on behalf of others.
  • An audit trail of who signed which letters, including persons who signed on behalf of others.
  • Seamless integration with Outlook to quickly send electronic letterhead by email.
  • Seamless integration with iManage/document management systems to store signed letters into the correct workspace with a meaningful andd easily identifiable file name.

iManage and DMS integration

Remove unfriendly file names from your DMS & make it easier to find your scanned documents.

You will no longer have to trawl through files with lengthy unique identifier names given to scanned documents. Kappris forces documents to be stored in your document management system into a client matter workspace with a meaningful file name.

iManage integration makes it easier to identify your documents from a ‘follow-me print queue’.

Intelligent print drivers know that a letter is to be printed on letterhead

Who or what tells the printer which paper to print on and whether it’s single or double sided?

Kappris recognises documents by their templates and sends instructions to printers so that the default setting for the document type is always used. Some document types can be forced to print double sided and in black and white and can achieve a huge cost saving.

Kappris smart printing saves money in wasted printing errors and saves time in messing about with printer settings. Kappris is a universal interface which means it works with any brand of MFD or printer so your experience is always the same even in a mixed fleet environment with lots of different printer types.

Kappris is a system that makes it easy for users to print the jobs they want without having to alter any of the printer settings.

Outlook integration thread

Do you want to print a 20 thread email conversation, or just the last 2?

The Kappris print button makes it easy to select parts of an email conversation, or the complete conversation, to print. It automatically recognises how many email exchanges have taken place, and the user can then select the number of these they wish to print.

Our clients’ favourite feature is to set a default to print only the last two emails in a thread, it saves masses of wasted paper.

In their 1st year of using Kappris, BLM Solicitors saved 1.5 million sheets of paper just by using the ‘Print Last 2 Emails Only’ feature in Outlook.

Email attachments

Printing attachments from emails is also made easier

No longer do you have to wait for applications to open, print, close, before moving onto your next task. And printing ZIP files is now more secure as no extraction to other folders is needed.

Effective and practical print management is key to any business. We can simplify your print processes, giving you control over the way your staff print. Influencing email printing, often a firm’s most significant print output, will reduce paper and toner use resulting in print savings and environmental benefits.

Kappris prevents harmful virus in macro enabled templates.

Reporting

Enjoy transparency of your business with Kappris reporting.

How do you know your investment is working for you?

How do you know if the changes you’ve made are working?

Kappris reports tell you who signed that letter using the digital signature. It will tell you how many emails have been printed using the ‘print only last 2 emails’ feature.

You can calculate your savings on paper usage, and you can demonstrate your compliance. You can be assured that you made the right investment in choosing Kappris.

Check out who and how many documents are being ‘printed’ to electronic stationery rather than paper.

Our simple to implement Kappris software allows your law firm to work in an extremely easy and flexible way, transforming your firm’s efficiency and creating a tailored digital working environment.

Kappris is a suite of simple software and templates that can transform the way your law firm works, whether that be digitally or with physical documents. It enables you to print securely from your work system to your home printer and it gives you one common view linking multiple hardware setups, wherever you are.

Book your Kappris demonstration or contact us today to understand how we can improve your performance and deliver genuine and significant reduction in costs.

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Saving emailed Zip files into iManage

Saving emailed Zip files into iManage

Have you ever needed to save the contents of an emailed Zip file into iManage?

We have now added a new feature in Kappris to allow users to save the contents of an emailed Zip file into iManage as a new document or new version.

Save Nested Attachments

There is a new button in the toolbar called “Save Nested Attachments”

Shows the dialog

If New Version is selected a ‘select document’ dialog is shown and then an ‘edit profile’ dialog, to allow the profile to be updated for the new version.  Users can continue selecting and filing until they hit close.

After New Document

Multiple emails and attachments can be selected and a standard iManage ‘save as’ dialog appears for each selected file if ‘New Document’ is selected.

After New Version
Then the edit profile

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How agile working is shaping our future

How agile working is shaping our future

Modern businesses survive or die by their ability to adapt to changing environments and embrace new ways of working.

Core values such as customer service or relationship building remain the foundations for successful companies but the best ones are those that grasp new and innovative ways of delivering services.

Forward thinking businesses are always looking to streamline procedures as well as creating the right environments to stimulate creative thinking, encourage collaboration and of course attracting and retaining staff in an increasing competitive landscape for talent.

Being able to adapt to changes in the legal sector relies significantly on incorporating agile working practices. Major legal firms such as DAC Beachcroft, Dentons and Shoosmiths are passionate advocates.

Shoosmiths designed its state-of-the art Manchester office with agile working at its very core. Lawyers do not have their own desks, but work flexibly in “neighbourhoods”.

In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, the office managing partner at the time, Vaqas Farooq, explained the ethos behind agile, stating;” No one has a desk. Each practice group has their own neighbourhood where their PAs are located, but beyond that there are collaboration zones, with lots of different types of working environments in which to work.

“We want lawyers to collaborate with their colleagues rather than sitting at their desk and emailing when a colleague is sat just 10ft away.”

Investment in IT and embracing new technology is a integral to agile working. Martin Arnold of Wedlake Bell told the Law Society Gazette: “‘The use of technology and the flexible working practices that it enables are vital. Agile working is something that is not only possible but essential for a full service law firm that is seeking to achieve the highest level of service integration.’

As firms change the way the work to increase client service, collaboration and efficiency, it makes sense for management teams to look at all areas of operation.

In our experience, areas such as print management can sometimes be overlooked by hard-pressed IT departments managing and implementing change.

This is surely a missed opportunity, since the right software platform for a firm’s print needs can unlock both process efficiencies and significant cost savings, particularly where firms have high print needs.

Just as employees are being encouraged to adopt a flexible approach to their style of working, administration tasks that can be long and laborious need to be streamlined to make firms more agile.

Print management is an essential process to adapt to a quicker moving business environment.

At Kutana, our pioneering print management solution Kappris is a great fit with the agile working agenda, making your way of working more flexible and efficient especially for home workers.

In a modern business world, where processes and technology are changing all the time, Kappris is an easy to use solution that has seamless integration with Word, Outlook and Excel.

Not only that, while many print solutions encompass a “one size fits all” philosophy that can lead to lengthy configuration or even software rewrites, Kappris can be tailored to a user’s specific needs and can be easily edited as and when upgrades are required.

Agile working and adapting your workforce to work smoother and quicker is essential, but unless all procedures are dealt with in a joined up way, then maybe you’re missing a trick?

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Templates, Macros and Office Development

Templates, Macros and Office Development

If you need Word templates and macros, we can help. As experts in design and development of templates we can build the day-to-day document production.

 

Many of our clients have old templates and macros that need to be brought into the modern world but which are no longer understood by the administration or development teams.

We can help and specialise in reading legacy code so as to understand how your software works and how it can be improved.

Kutana specialises in template, macro and Microsoft Office add-in development using VBA and .NET technology. Where appropriate we can also assist with programming that sits “closer to the metal” in C++, Object Pascal or Visual Basic.

We code for Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Access.

We can help you to use Kappris in your own development with our Kappris Library API.

Contact us to find out how Kutana can help your business.

 

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