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Natural Resources Wales benefits from easy filing, better collaboration and compliance in Office 365 with Repstor affinity

NRW has deployed Repstor affinity to enable users across their Office 365 deployment to meet regulatory needs…

London, 15 December 2015

Leading ECM Adoption specialist, Repstor, today announced that Natural Resources Wales, has deployed Repstor affinity, to enable users across their widely dispersed Office 365 deployment to meet regulatory needs for records management and compliance.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is the largest Welsh Government Sponsored Body – employing 1,900 staff across Wales with a budget of £180 million. It was formed in April 2013, largely taking over the functions of the Countryside Council for Wales, Forestry Commission Wales and the Environment Agency in Wales, as well as certain Welsh Government functions.

One of the key commitments for NRW, and in keeping with Central Government strategies, was to deliver secure, accessible, effective, easy to use, online services to its customers.  Where possible, and appropriate, NRW has committed to using cloud services, existing solutions and shared services. Office 365TM is at the heart of NRW’s strategy and was chosen as it would support the early days of the new organisation by providing cost effective browser based functionality to staff, who at that time were operating on three separate systems. The core functionality at that time was email, intranet and document management.

In selecting Office 365 NRW knew that it wouldn’t meet all of their business needs and that additional tools would be required. One requirement was to support the management of email content as part of formal records management. User adoption of any new system was a critical factor. Staff were facing significant changes and it was important that any new tools could be deployed with minimum impact.

Over a four month period, NRW completed a comprehensive review of products available under the G-Cloud programme that could potentially allow this requirement to be met with Office 365. This resulted in the selection of Repstor affinity and its rapid roll out to all users of the NRW Office 365 system.

The NRW G-Cloud procurement included comprehensive presentations and demonstrations of the products alongside subsequent evaluation of the software on the Natural Resources Wales Office 365 system.  Repstor affinity was chosen because when the extensive evaluation was completed the product was seen to provide the best value for money including providing everything that was needed to meet all of the functional and non-functional requirements in the most effective manner. Critical to this was the depth of integration with Outlook for ease of use, adoption and configurability of the product to meet the very specific requirements without any customisation.

“Repstor affinity is a key part of our Office 365 deployment. Its quick deployment and ease of use has meant that users have adopted the system without the need for any special training enabling us to seamlessly bring users on board, focusing on ensuring that our policies are effectively implemented,” Debra Jones, Project Manager, Natural Resources Wales.

“The ease of use particularly around filing and retrieval of content has been an essential part of rolling out this project without the need for a large change management effort on our part around the use of the software,” adds Debra.

Repstor products were seen as being the best performing, most tightly integrated and most feature rich option while being the easiest for users to adopt, meaning that users are more productive and are able to take advantage of the software with zero training requirements.

To read the full Natural Resource Wales case study click here.

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About Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is the largest Welsh Government Sponsored Body – employing 1,900 staff across Wales with a budget of £180 million. It was formed in April 2013, largely taking over the functions of the Countryside Council for Wales, Forestry Commission Wales and the Environment Agency in Wales, as well as certain Welsh Government functions. Learn more at http://naturalresources.wales.

About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.  By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office 365.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor:
Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061.
For more information please visit www.repstor.com.

Repstor awarded place on the G-Cloud 7 services agreement by Crown Commercial Service

Repstor, is pleased to announce it has once again secured its position as a supplier to the UK public sector by being awarded a place on the G-Cloud 7 agreement

London, 2 December 2015

Crown Commerical Services

Leading ECM adoption specialist, Repstor, is pleased to announce it has once again secured its position as a supplier to the UK public sector by being awarded a place on the G-Cloud 7 agreement for the supply of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Specialist Cloud Services (SCS) by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

Repstor is delighted that it has been awarded a place on the latest Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud programme, G-Cloud 7. This means that all G-Cloud customers will continue to have access to Repstor Software as a Service and Specialist Cloud Services offerings via the G-Cloud online store, the Digital Marketplace. These offerings have been expanded to include more products from the Repstor product line including the Repstor affinity, assist, custodian and CRM Link products.

The G-Cloud 7 agreement supports the Government’s policy to centrally manage the procurement of common goods and services through an integrated commercial function at the heart of government. The agreement can be used by organisations across the UK public sector including central government, local government, health, education, devolved administrations, emergency services, defence and not-for-profit organisations.

Repstor helps government organisations successfully deploy ECM (Enterprise Content Management) systems by inspiring user adoption. We create products that users will adopt by making them intuitive and familiar. The Repstor flagship products, affinity and assist provide uninterrupted access to content from systems such as Microsoft® SharePoint®, HP Records Manager 8/TRIM®, Meridio® and File Shares through the familiar, intuitive interface of Microsoft Outlook®.

Repstor’s products and services enable users to continue with their preferred way of working while easily managing their information from Outlook hence ensuring content is filed correctly in the ECM systems that control policy and security. This avoids much of the change control, training and policy enforcement required where tools are new, unfamiliar, often perform poorly and are too complex for the general end user.

Repstor products currently available as part of the G-Cloud7 programme include:

  • Repstor affinityTM provides uninterrupted access to content repositories within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®. Repositories like Microsoft SharePoint®, HP Records Manager 8/TRIM®, Meridio® and File Shares can be accessed seamlessly from within Outlook.
  • Repstor assistTM provides additional filing capability that keeps the filed content fully available while on or offline. It provides assisted filing to users by taking best practice filing and using this to suggest the most suitable location for new content.
  • Repstor custodianTM turns Microsoft SharePoint into an effective case document management system to help organisations gain rapid ROI from SharePoint and Office 365TM investments.
  • Repstor CRM Link provides users with a secure and fast link to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint (or other ECM Systems) from within Microsoft Outlook.

By providing intuitive access to Office 365 and other content systems from Microsoft Outlook, Repstor helps organisations manage their content easily and to successfully deploy ECM systems by providing the tools needed to ensure their users adopt these systems.

The UK Government G-Cloud Programme is an initiative targeted at easing procurement by public-sector bodies in departments of the United Kingdom Government of commodity information technology services that use cloud computing. The G-Cloud consists of:

  • A series of framework agreements with suppliers, from which public sector organisations can buy services without needing to run a full tender or competition procurement process
  • An online store – the “Digital Marketplace” (previously “CloudStore”) that allows public sector bodies to search for services that are covered by the G-Cloud frameworks

G-Cloud covers the processes of buying, managing and using cloud services and provides Public Sector Bodies with a range of the best industry IT services and solutions available off-the-shelf for use when they need them.

Alan McMillen, CEO Repstor“Being awarded this place on the G-Cloud 7 agreement further confirms Repstor’s position as a leading SME supplier of Cloud services to the UK Public Sector. As part of the G-Cloud 7 agreement we have extended the range of products and services we are offering on the Digital Marketplace online store and are excited to be part of the G-Cloud 7 programme delivering great value cloud based products and services to Public Sector Bodies,”                   Alan McMillen, CEO, Repstor.

 

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About Repstor

Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®. By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries. We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office 365TM.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor:
Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061.

About the Crown Commercial Service

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) works with both departments and organisations across the whole of the public sector to ensure maximum value is extracted from every commercial relationship and improve the quality of service delivery. The CCS goal is to become the “go-to” place for expert commercial and procurement services.

Contact: Government Procurement Service Press Office
Tel: 0345 010 3503            Email: supplier@ccs.gsi.gov.uk   Web: www.gov.uk/ccs

Repstor Displaces Competitor in Email Management Software deployment at Queen’s University Belfast

Queen’s University Belfast, one of the UK’s leading universities, has selected and is deploying Repstor affinity across its Contracts team

Belfast, 15 October 2015

Leading ECM Adoption specialist, Repstor, today announced that Queen’s University Belfast, one of the UK’s leading universities, has selected and is deploying Repstor affinity across its Contracts team to underpin its email and content management program and to facilitate easy filing of email and content into their ECM platform Microsoft® SharePoint®.

Queen’s University Belfast is a member of the Russell Group of 24 leading UK research-intensive universities, alongside Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London and among the top one per cent of global universities. The Contracts team is part of the Research and Enterprise Directorate at the University and leads in the preparation, negotiation and execution of contracts for research and consultancy undertaken by academic staff.  The key role of the team is to ensure the interests of the University are protected in relation to intellectual property rights, research income and consultancy and supporting the delivery of the best possible commercialization outcomes. In order to do this team members are required to file relevant email and other content into contract folders so that all of the Contracts team members are able to access, manage and collaborate around this content.

In an effort to increase team collaboration Microsoft® SharePoint® was being used to store contract and commercial content. Queen’s University had also previously selected a leading competitor’s email management software to assist with the filing of email and content from Outlook into SharePoint. However this tool was slowing down the performance of Outlook which resulted in it being a very time consuming way of adding content to SharePoint. In particular the filing of email content to a large number of folders was extremely slow and cumbersome and there was no effective solution capability for Contract team users to use when working offline. Indeed the performance of Outlook had become so slow that most of the Contract team had de-installed the email management application.

In searching for a solution Queen’s selected Repstor affinity based on its ease of use, and true native integration with Microsoft Outlook and Office. Also highlighted during the evaluation was email filing and management, performance and stability, support for search, ease of enterprise-wide deployment and offline working. Using Repstor affinity the Contracts team could file email and other content quickly and easily into Microsoft® SharePoint® while also having an effective offline working solution. They could achieve all of this without impacting Outlook’s performance.

TomQUB_7055s“Queen’s University chose the Repstor affinity product because it provided a level of product integration, ease of use and performance that we did not see elsewhere. The filing of email is key within the Contracts team and in our evaluation filing of email to SharePoint using the Quick File tool in Repstor affinity was fast and easy, which was not the experience with competing products. The affinity product required no user training and was easily deployed across our entire team,” Tom Edgar, Head of Consultancy & Technical Services, Research and Enterprise Directorate, Queen’s University Belfast.

In selecting Repstor affinity Queen’s recognized that by providing an effective and easily adopted Outlook application, email and content filing into its Microsoft SharePoint ECM system would increase, improving team collaboration and productivity while meeting compliance needs.

Alan McMillen of the Repstor team.“We are delighted to be working with Queen’s University Belfast. It is great to work with a local University and to hear how their evaluation of the market led to our product being clearly identified as the market leader for Outlook and SharePoint integration,” Alan McMillen, CEO, Repstor Limited. 

 

 

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About Queen’s University, Belfast
Queen’s University Belfast was founded as Queen’s College in 1845, before becoming a university in its own right in 1908. Today, it is an international center of research and education and a major part of the fabric of Northern Ireland. With more than 23,000 students and 3,700 staff, it is a dynamic and diverse institution, a magnet for inward investment, a major employer and investor, a patron of the arts and a global player in areas ranging from cancer studies to sustainability, and from pharmaceuticals to creative writing.

About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office 365.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor:
Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061. For more information please visit www.repstor.com

Repstor affinity 3.0 – the Content Management tool for Microsoft 365 introduces Windows Explorer integration with Repstor drive

Repstor is pleased to announce the launch of the latest version of its Outlook content management tool Repstor affinity 3.0.

London, 4 August 2015

Repstor, the leading ECM adoption specialist, is pleased to announce the launch of the latest version of its Outlook content management tool Repstor affinityTM 3.0.

Microsoft® Outlook® is familiar to most as their email client. It is simple and easy to use. For many people it’s the first thing they open when they arrive in work, and the last thing closed before home time. They use it to collaborate with colleagues and customers.  Since we spend so much time in Outlook, wouldn’t it be ideal if all of the things we need for day-to-day work were accessible there?

Using Repstor affinity 3.0 makes this possible. Users get seamless access to their content repositories both on and offline without leaving the Outlook interface, regardless of what document repository it is saved in, meaning they can collaborate easily with colleagues. With this release there is enhanced Microsoft Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® integration. You can compare documents and convert documents to Adobe® PDF directly from affinity. Property support has also been improved. Repstor affinity 3.0 adds new repository support for HighQ Collaborate and Meridio®, ECM repositories along with the existing SharePoint®, OneDrive® and HP Records Manager/TRIM® support. Access to Repstor affinity folders and content is now also possible using the file system through the Repstor driveTM product. This enables users to save from any Windows Application directly into Repstor affinity.

CTO, Repstor“With 3.0, the affinity product further extends its deep integration with Microsoft 365 and other ECM repositories – providing access through the familiar interface of Microsoft Outlook without impacting Outlook’s stability or performance. We continue to deliver enterprise ECM user adoption by providing users with access to tools from where they prefer to do their work,” said Fergus Wilson, Repstor’s CTO.

Extending Repstor and Microsoft 365 Integration

The affinity 3.0 release delivers enhanced email and content management by providing deeper integration with Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint products. In affinity 3.0 Repstor has provided a new Compare Word Documents content menu which compares the contents of two affinity documents in Word. Users can also convert documents accessed from affinity to Adobe PDF directly from the Microsoft Word application. 3.0 also improves property support for managed metadata and user and group properties (allowing auto-complete for these property types both on and offline).

New Repstor Drive Module

Repstor focuses on giving users the choice to manage their content and access their documents via the application of their choice. With affinity 3.0 Repstor delivers a new Repstor driveTM module which enables users to access and save content via Windows® Explorer®. Users are able to save to Repstor affinity in the File->Save dialog, removing the need to move away from the source application in order to add a document to the organizations repository.

Improved Repository Support

Today Repstor affinity leads the ECM market with its extensive integration to multiple repositories. At every release of the affinity product Repstor aims to extend this support. Affinity 3.0 provides Outlook integration and support for the HighQ Collaborate product which is largely used as a collaboration tool for legal companies and also the Meridio ECM repository, providing users with the ability to store and access content in multiple repositories. Existing repository support has also been improved by providing property synchronization for HP TRIM® repositories.

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About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft 365.

Leading Law Firm, Mourant Ozannes, Selects Repstor ECM Adoption Software

Mourant Ozannes, one of the leading offshore law firms, has selected and is deploying Repstor affinity and assist to facilitate collaboration, sharing and easy filing of email and content into HP® Worksite®

London, 15 July 2015

Leading ECM Adoption specialist, Repstor, today announced that Mourant Ozannes, one of the leading offshore law firms, has selected and is deploying Repstor affinity and assist to facilitate collaboration, sharing and easy filing of email and content into its ECM platform HP® Worksite® for its Hong Kong office.

Mourant Ozannes is one of the leading offshore law firms, advising on the laws of the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. Clients include many of the world’s leading financial institutions, public companies, corporations and fund promoters as well as high net worth private clients. The Hong Kong office services clients based in the Asia Pacific region by providing multi-jurisdictional offshore legal advice. The highly rated team consists of partners and senior lawyers with significant experience across the leading offshore jurisdictions. The lawyers in Hong Kong specialize in corporate, finance, investment funds, and international trust work as well as litigation and insolvency matters. This requires the accurate filing of email, matters and other legal content to customer folders so that the team is able to file, access, manage and collaborate around this content while remaining compliant.

HP® WorkSite® is used to store legal documents and other content and to support collaborative working in a compliant way. Mourant Ozannes had previously used HP FileSite® to facilitate filing email while sharing and accessing content from HP Worksite via Outlook. However this was negatively impacting the performance of Outlook which resulted in users being unable to perform crucial tasks. In particular the filing of email content to a large number of folders was extremely slow and cumbersome and there was no effective solution capability for users when working offline.

After looking at various alternatives Mourant Ozannes selected Repstor affinity and assist to replace HP FileSite, enabling email and other content to be quickly and easily filed into HP WorkSite. Repstor affinity was selected based on its ease of use, and true native integration with Microsoft Outlook and HP WorkSite. Functionality highlighted during the Proof of Concept included easy email filing and matter management, high performance and stability, support for search, ease of enterprise-wide deployment and offline working, with user feedback being excellent. Using Repstor affinity and assist, users could file email and other content quickly and easily into HP WorkSite. This could all be achieved without impacting Outlook’s performance.

Tony IMG_6961“Our existing remote office thin client model wasn’t performing to acceptable standards and we needed to make some radical changes to introduce improvement. We decided early on that we needed to move away from a thin client model yet try and retain the centralised Worksite document management system but this simply wasn’t possible until we became aware of Repstor’s products. Testing and piloting of the products has got the remote offices really excited because it has resolved many of the performance issues that they see. It has also provided a level of matter management, product integration, ease of use and performance that we could get nowhere else.  We are so impressed with the Repstor products, and their speed at turning around our feature suggestions, that there is every likelihood that we will roll them out to all remote locations throughout 2015/16,” Tony Le Lerre, Head of Information Services, Mourant Ozannes.

Mourant Ozannes wanted to provide their users with an effective and easily adopted Outlook application, ensuring email and matter filing into its HP WorkSite ECM system became quick and easy. This resulted in users sharing and accessing accurate, up-to-date information, hence improving team collaboration and productivity while meeting compliance needs.

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About Mourant Ozannes
Mourant Ozannes provides award-winning offshore legal advice from offices in the key international finance centres of the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Hong Kong and London. With 56 partners and over 500 employees Mourant Ozannes has received numerous industry awards, including Offshore Law Firm of the Year by Chambers Europe 2015, Best U.S. Offshore Law Firm by Hedgeweek Global Awards 2015 and HFMWeek’s Best Offshore Law Firm for Client Service from 2011-2015. For more information, please visit: www.mourantozannes.com.

About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office365.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor: Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061. For more information please visit www.repstor.com

Repstor Announces CRM Link – the Dynamics CRM and ECM connector for Office 365®

Repstor announces the launch of its newest addition to the Repstor suite of products, Repstor CRM Link, at AIIM Forum UK.

AIIM Forum UK, London, 24 June 2015

At AIIM Forum UK, Repstor today announced the launch of its newest addition to the Repstor suite of products, Repstor CRM Link, the Dynamics CRM and ECM connector for Microsoft Office 365®.

Repstor CRM Link* provides users with a secure and fast link to Dynamics CRM and SharePoint (or other ECM Systems) from within Microsoft Outlook.

CRM Link enables users to associate emails quickly and easily with Dynamics CRM records or entities from Microsoft Outlook without ever leaving the Outlook interface. Repstor CRM Link helps users manage customer information and correspondence using Dynamics CRM from Microsoft Outlook without affecting the performance of Outlook.

Keeping track of client or customer related tasks and content such as emails, documents, marketing or sales activities and external correspondence can be time consuming and something that is often left until a later date, or indeed overlooked. This affects the ability of the organization and team members to access an accurate and up to date client profile at any time and can result in users missing critical details related to a client. Repstor CRM Link helps address these issues by providing a client management tool that is integrated into Outlook and accessible from the Outlook interface, the place users prefer to work.

By using Repstor affinity and custodian with CRM Link users are able to associate CRM records or entities with SharePoint Sites and Libraries (and other ECM information). SharePoint Sites and Libraries can be automatically provisioned based on the creation of CRM Records. Organizational information is shared between the user’s Outlook, Dynamics CRM and ECM systems cutting down on the need for users to manually update each system individually.

CTO, Repstor“CRM Link provides users with an easy-to-use client management tool that they can access directly from Microsoft Outlook. Users can update information on clients in Dynamics CRM and SharePoint or other ECM repositories easily without ever leaving the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface. This saves time for the user and avoids the need to update separate systems manually. Users are encouraged to keep all client information up to date. With accurate information available easily, the productivity of all team members increases,” said Fergus Wilson, CTO, Repstor.

Repstor CRM Link provides the following benefits:

  • Outlook integrated Client exploiting Repstor affinity
  • Surface CRM related documents in Outlook
  • Efficient Outlook integration – no slowdown to Outlook
  • Utilises Repstor Provisioning for Flexible Provisioning of SharePoint to support CRM Objects
  • CRM on-line or on-premise

Your organization can now leverage your CRM and ECM system to easily and accurately manage client information and other key content while enabling users to increase their productivity by working within the familiar Microsoft Outlook Client.

Click here to request a demo of Repstor CRM Link

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* CRM Link was developed in collaboration with CompanyNet, a Repstor Partner.

About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office365.

For more information please visit www.repstor.com or register for a free software trial at https://www.repstor.com/products-for-ecm-adoption/try-our-software.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor: Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061.

 

 

Repstor signs partnership with Transform Data to distribute leading ECM Outlook integration software

Repstor is pleased to announce that it has signed a partnership agreement with Transform Data. Transform Data will distribute the full set of Repstor products within the Benelux and Nordics regions.

London, 2 June 2015

Repstor, the leading ECM adoption specialist, is pleased to announce that it has signed a partnership agreement with Transform Data. Transform Data will distribute the full set of Repstor products within the Benelux and Nordics regions. This partnership will provide both end customers and channel partners with access to Repstor’s software products along with local support and complementary services. Repstor’s innovative software delivers intuitive access to Office® 365, SharePoint® and other content systems from Microsoft® Outlook® that helps ensure ECM projects are successful by encouraging collaboration and compliance.

Transform Data is a new business that helps organizations optimise the overall productivity of their workforce by reselling and implementing ECM, Mobility and Cloud solutions for enterprises. Using Repstor technology enterprises can enable users to easily capture, store, and file emails to multiple content repositories such as SharePoint or HP TRIM® allowing them to manage emails and documents in a compliant, easy and consistent manner

Rene“In our desire to make life easier and more productive for our customers, while finding solutions that users love, we are delighted to partner with Repstor as their technology offers solutions that make ECM easy. Repstor affinity provides intuitive access to any ECM repository, from Microsoft Outlook. Repstor affinity’s interface provides the simple behaviour of filing and collaborating from within Outlook even though the user is saving content to an ECM system,” says René Beulen, Managing Partner at Transform Data.

Alan McMillen, CEO RepstorAlan McMillen, Repstor CEO commented, “By partnering with Transform Data we have extended our reach further into the Benelux and Nordics regions. This partnership will allow us to develop business jointly in these important regions, and will enable us to provide effective local support for Repstor resellers in these regions. The Repstor product range continues to develop with the ethos that the company was built on – making happier users. We create products that users will adopt by making them intuitive and familiar. Transform Data also strives to increase users’ productivity –making it a natural fit for our companies to partner.”

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About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.
Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office365.

For more information please visit www.repstor.com or register for a free software trial at https://www.repstor.com/products-for-ecm-adoption/try-our-software.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor: Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061.

About Transform Data
Transform Data is founded to help organisations optimise the overall productivity of their workforce by reselling and implementing ECM, Mobility and Cloud solutions.

Transform Data specialises in finding solutions for the optimal use of information within organisations, for instance to support decision-making processes or day-to-day operations that require the availability of accurate data. The Repstor product portfolio is a very important part within the ECM projects that are implemented.

Transform Data has a special focus on the professional services market to help law firms, accountancy firms and corporate legal departments to manage their matters in an easy and intuitive way to be compliant and efficient.

Visit us at:  www.transformdata.eu

Repstor Awarded its Place on the G-Cloud 6 services agreement by Crown Commercial Service

Repstor has been awarded a place on the GCloud6 agreement for the supply of Software as a Service (SaaS) by Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

London, 1 April 2015

Crown Commerical ServicesRepstor, the leading ECM adoption specialist, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a place on the GCloud6 agreement for the supply of Software as a Service (SaaS) by Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

The GCloud6 agreement supports the Government’s policy to centrally manage the procurement of common goods and services through an integrated commercial function at the heart of government. The agreement can be used by organisations across the UK public sector including central government, local government, health, education, devolved administrations, emergency services, defence and not-for-profit organisations.

Repstor is delighted that it has been successfully awarded a place on the latest Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud programme. This means that all GCloud customers will have access to Repstor Software as a Service and Cloud Service offerings via the Digital Marketplace. These offerings include the Repstor affinity, assist and custodian products.

Repstor affinityTM provides uninterrupted access to content repositories within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®. affinity encourages user adoption of content systems by providing a natural, familiar and intuitive way of working. Repositories like Microsoft SharePoint® and File Shares can be accessed seamlessly from within Outlook. Repstor assistTM provides additional filing capability that keeps the filed content fully available while on or offline. It provides assisted filing to users by taking best practice filing and using this to suggest the most suitable location for new content. Repstor custodianTM turns Microsoft SharePoint into an effective case document management system to help organizations gain rapid ROI from SharePoint and Office 365® investments.

By providing intuitive access to Office 365 and other content systems from Microsoft Outlook, Repstor helps organisations manage their content easily and to successfully deploy ECM systems by providing the tools needed to ensure their users adopt these systems. This results in reduced change management requirements, increased productivity and compliance with policy aimed at meeting regulatory requirements.

The G-Cloud Programme is a cross government initiative targeted at easing procurement by public-sector bodies in departments of the United Kingdom Government of commodity information technology services that use cloud computing. G-Cloud covers the processes of buying, managing and using cloud services. The goal of G-Cloud is to move government ICT service provision from a costly dedicated development that is often duplicated many times over, to taking the best fit the market has to offer that balances functionality, service levels and cost. Essentially G-Cloud provides Public Sector Bodies with a range of the best industry IT services and solutions available off-the-shelf for use when they need them.

The Crown Commercial Service has put in place a Pan Government G-Cloud Framework Agreement (RM1557).  It is available for use by all UK Public Sector bodies, which include Central Government Departments and their Arms Length Bodies and Agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS Bodies & Local Authorities as a procurement vehicle by which to access Cloud Computing Services.

Alan McMillen, CEO Repstor“Being awarded this place on the GCloud6 agreement enables Repstor to further extend our range and delivery model of product offerings into the Public Sector. We are excited to be offering our latest product, custodian, as part of this offering and believe this community of SME’s delivers great value cloud based products and services to Public Sector Bodies,” Alan McMIllen, CEO, Repstor.

Repstor products deliver intuitive access to Office 365 and other content systems from Microsoft® Outlook®. To learn more about Repstor products please visit https://www.repstor.com/products-for-ecm-adoption

Supporting Resources:

About Repstor

Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®.   By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries.  We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office365.

For more information please visit www.repstor.com or register for a free software trial at https://www.repstor.com/products-for-ecm-adoption/try-our-software.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor:
Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061

About the Crown Commercial Service

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has brought together Government’s central commercial capability into a single organisation, amalgamating Government Procurement Service with other commercial teams from the Cabinet Office and central government departments.

CCS is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office and operates as a trading fund under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973. Their remit is to work with both departments and organisations across the whole of the public sector to ensure maximum value is extracted from every commercial relationship and improve the quality of service delivery.

The CCS goal is to become the “go-to” place for expert commercial and procurement services.

With both service delivery and advisory capability, services include contract management and supplier performance management to ensure that the Government acts as a true, single customer; freeing up individual organisations to focus their procurement expertise on what is unique to them.

Contact: Government Procurement Service Press Office Tel: 0345 010 3503 Email: supplier@ccs.gsi.gov.uk Web: www.gov.uk/ccs

Repstor Showcasing “custodian for legal” at the British Legal Technology Forum 2015

Repstor is proud to announce it is exhibiting at the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2015’, London on Tuesday, 17th March 2015.

London, 11 March 2015

Repstor, the leading ECM adoption and matter management specialist, is proud to announce it is exhibiting at the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2015’ at the Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday, 17th March 2015.

As Europe’s largest legal technology conference and exhibition, The British Legal Technology Forum will bring together the most respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology worlds to examine and explore the systems, strategies, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond. With Prof. Richard Susskind confirmed as Event Chair & Presenter it promises to be a very interesting event. Produced by Netlaw Media, the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2015’ will accommodate over 1,200 legal technology professionals from the UK, European and international legal sectors.

Repstor will be showcasing its “custodian for legal “product which provides intuitive Matter Management for Microsoft® SharePoint® users. The “custodian for legal” product provides Matter Management for legal firms and legal departments by enabling a standard SharePoint/Office 365® system for legal case and matter management.

Manage Your Matters the Outlook Way
Repstor custodianTM helps make legal document management possible in the Microsoft cloud, by providing full Matter Management and Outlook integrated access to documents and content in SharePoint, File Shares or other content systems.

custodian enables your standard SharePoint document management system for legal case and matter management. All of the key common Matter Management activities are completed in the familiar Outlook user interface. Offline working is provided so that users can access and work on Matters when they need to.

Talk to just about any Legal professional about how they communicate and collaborate and it is clear that Microsoft Outlook® plays a key part in their day to day work. Repstor custodian includes the affinityTM product which provides intuitive and seamless access to SharePoint, and other content systems from within Microsoft Outlook. Users can fully exploit Outlook features such as views, drag and drop and search across matters and Outlook email and other content stored in Office 365. This is an extremely effective way of navigating to matters and matter folders/locations.

Mark Harding from Repstor will be speaking on the demonstration stage at 13:10 on how you can manage your matters and access your SharePoint, Office 365 or documents via Outlook. To learn more about this topic you can download our complimentary whitepaper written by Doug Miles from AIIM on this very topic.

If you are attending the ‘British Legal Technology Forum 2015’, come and see Repstor at stand C14.

Supporting Resources:

About Repstor
Repstor was created to inspire ECM Adoption. We are dedicated to developing products that enable collaboration and compliance for the Outlook-centric workforce. Repstor’s products make access to content systems easy and intuitive for users, by providing access to them within the familiar interface of Microsoft® Outlook®. By making access to the content system easy and intuitive for users, we overcome the main cause of failed deployments of ECM systems – failure of users to adopt the system.

Our products are ideal for mobile, remote and semi-disconnected users especially in industries like Professional Services, Legal, Oil and Gas, Public Sector and other regulated industries. We significantly reduce change management costs when rolling out systems, improve ROI for existing systems, and fully support Microsoft Office365.

For more information please visit www.repstor.com or register for a free software trial at https://www.repstor.com/products-for-ecm-adoption/try-our-software.

For further press information please contact Olivia Bushe at Repstor:
Email: olivia.bushe@repstor.com or telephone +44 (0)28 9072 6061.