Taylor Vinters plot their path to success with new integrated IT solution

ENFIELD, U.K. - Feb. 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Taylor Vinters are a large regional firm of Solicitors with offices in London, Cambridge and Singapore. Operating in the areas of technology, investment and private client, they serve an international client base of private individuals, fast-growth companies, multinational, investors and non-profits.

The firm are an existing user of iManage for their document management needs. iManage from Autonomy is highly used amongst the top 100 firms in the UK and very heavily used in the USA market where document management solutions are arguably more popular than case management software.

When Steve Sumner, IT Director and Drew Winlaw, Director of Operational Development at Taylor Vinters looked at their firm’s business needs, they knew that neither a document management nor a case management software product fitted their requirements fully. They realised that the firm needed a document management solution for the business as a whole and a case management one for certain areas only.

Taylor Vinters were already users of DPS’s case management software (http://www.dpssoftware.co.uk/case-management-software/gen...) for the Plot Sales department and although this worked well, they needed to link this department to the rest of the business.

The Plot Sales department was using a fairly old version of DPS and needed to upgrade to the newer, Outlook Office case management system which is completely integrated with Outlook. This model also suited the iManage integration since iManage is also provided within Outlook. The integration between the two products meant that everything was embedded into their Outlook desktop.

The missing link was getting accounts information right into the case management system so that relevant financial information could be delivered right into the case.

Steve and Drew approached DPS and specified how the integration to their iManage system was to work. This had to be completely seamless and any document created by DPS’s case management software had to be accessed in the normal way but checked into iManage automatically, without any user’s intervention. Of course, if an iManage user checked a document into the case directly through iManage and outside of DPS, then DPS would need to synchronise the case automatically.

The task was particularly difficult but the benefits for the end user were also considerable. DPS enlisted the iManage expertise of Dr Mo Barkhordar at Mocom Systems to develop a module within their case management software that would meet the clients’ requirements and the project specified.

A completely new Plot Sales module was written internally by Taylor Vinters’ staff trained in DPS and the updated Outlook Office case management completely integrated to iManage and their Miles 33 accounts was rolled out in June 2014.

Steve Sumner said “This is more than an integration project – we actually did not want one to happen– we did not want our staff to have to think which software they are in. What we wanted was for them to do their work and all the ‘merging’ and integration of systems to be done in the background. The most successful integration is when users don’t even know it has happened and that is what we have achieved.”

Drew Winlaw added “We knew what we wanted- iManage document management for the business as a whole and the DPS case management system that could be customised to our own requirements. After only 6 months from the project’s implementation, we are reaping the benefits and are already looking to put our Conveyancing department onto our DPS/iManage solution.’’

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About Taylor Vinters

Taylor Vinters is a successful next generation law firm with a commitment to being one of the elite legal practices operating internationally in the areas of technology, investment and private client. Headquartered in Cambridge UK, Europe's innovation capital, and operating from their offices in London, Singapore and Cambridge, their team of entrepreneurially-minded people serve an international client base of private individuals, fast-growth companies, multinational, investors and non-profits.

More information about Taylor Vinters can be found on their website- www.taylorvinters.com.

About DPS Software

DPS Software are one of the leading independent legal case management software and hosted IT solutions providers in the UK, servicing law firms across the country. Catering to over 600 practices and 15,000 individual users, DPS have built a strong and growing market position thanks to their award-winning legal software products covering a variety of areas from legal accounts through to case management and workflow solutions for specialisms such as Crime, Conveyancing and Personal Injury.

DPS Software are committed to developing IT solutions that meet the specific and changing needs of law firms and their DPSCloud (http://www.dpscloud.com/) hosted solutions have helped them to become a realistic ‘one stop shop’ for the IT needs of the modern firm.

Learn more about the company and its services at www.dpssoftware.co.uk.

About Autonomy

Autonomy’s powerful management and analytics tools for structured information is a unique solution for companies seeking to get the most out of their data. Their product portfolio helps power companies through enterprise search analytics, business process management and OEM operations Their iManage Worksite is part of the company’s legal content management solution which enables law firms and corporate legal departments to improve productivity and enhance customer service by managing electronic content intuitively and conveniently.

Visit www.autonomy.com for more information.