Keluro enters into a new dimension as you can now use Keluro directly with your Gmail account. Take advantage of the full power of Keluro directly with your personal Gmail or with your professional G suite account. You don’t need any configuration, just go on Keluro and log in with your Google account. You will be able to use all the features (email sharing, archiving, pdf export…) with your emails, even if you share a...
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KMailPrint is a popular Outlook add-in available in the Office Store and also developed by us, the Keluro company. It allows you to convert an email to a nicely formatted PDF file. Members of the Keluro insiders program were numerous to ask for the same kind of exporting capabilities within Keluro. We are proud to anounce that now KMailPrint and Keluro share the same virtual printing technology. In addition, with the latter end-users have more...
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Keluro now allows you to connect if you have a Microsoft account–an Outlook or Hotmail email, a Skype account, or even an Xbox account. Once you are logged in, you can start to organise your emails, and archive emails that do not need to sit in your inbox. Though a precursory step in organising your personal email with Keluro, it nonetheless provides the necessary step to archiving emails that still have necessary information, but not...
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Project management is one of the most important aspects of any business. Seeing a project through from beginning to end and staffing the right people for the job are crucial to meeting your goals. But also tracking the project is of upmost importance, which we discussed in a previous blog. Though project management carries a heavy weight in the success of any venture, the idea of project collaboration is often overlooked. Project management is monitoring...
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As we move more and more into the digital age, more and more employees are working remotely. This is becoming common practice, more so with freelancers, and is still a professional novelty that is evolving, where maintaining proper lines of communication is essential. Working remotely detracts from team connections and rapport due to lack of face-to-face with colleagues. Tone and intent can be lost, and more importantly documents, information, and projects. Keluro’s smart email sharing...
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In the digital age, where technology is key, distance is no longer a barrier to collaboration. But the same problems that prevented communication in the office has continued to online. The piles of files and paperwork that cluttered desks and file cabinets are now having the same effect on email inboxes. Miscommunication carries on even in the digital age, however, Keluro is an effective team collaboration tool. Email still reigns as the #1 form of...
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In a previous post, we monetized the importance of productivity, and how the use of Keluro’s hashtag channeling system really reinforces team collaboration, and overall boosts productivity. But here, we want to apply how Keluro can be a useful tool for project management. Even though there are several project management solutions available, many project managers still rely heavily on basic email. But basic email alone is by no way the best resource for project management,...
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As explained in a previous blog post, the so-called web add-ins are actually web applications. However when it comes to development, especially with Office Desktop host applications, things are not so simple. In this blog post, we propose to describe and compare the available debugging solutions. Using your favorite web browser devtools. When running in Office Online, an add-in is just a plain old iFrame. Most modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) let you debug iFrames...
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Email overload is a recurring problem within the workplace, and with the number of email users, email accounts, and email sends only on the rise, the problem is only going to get worse. According to the McKinsey Institute, 28% of workers’ time is dedicated to email. A large amount of time for completely reactive, low-value work, as studies show that 62% of emails can be labeled of low importance, or simply not urgent. These email...
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Implementing an OAUTH sign-in flow in Office add-ins can be problematic. Indeed, this thematic is subject to frequent questions on stackoverflow (see this one for example ). When developing Keluro - Smart Email Sharing which is both an Office 365 web-app and an Outlook add-in, we needed a solution where these two applications share the same sign-in/authentication mechanism for a better user experience. We worked in order to propose an email archiving software that takes...
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In short, what is Office 365? According to Microsoft, Office 365 is an umbrella for “subscription plans that include access to Office applications plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet.” In other words, it is a subscription service that empowers organizations to work effectively using email, shared storages, messaging services, Office applications, and more—without the need to install server hardware on premises or manage und purchase software updates. The birth of Office...
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Consulting is all about people and knowledge The most important asset of any consulting services business is their people. As is the case with any human capital-driven organization, these companies would not last for a long time without great employees. This is no wonder, since it is essentially their employees that they rent out to solve their clients’ problems. And when talking about “great” employees, this encompasses their personality traits just as much as the...
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How we access shared documents How many times have you started to work on a new task or project that required some sort of access to existing files and documents? Probably often! Depending on how far your organization has moved away from individual silos toward more collaborative ways of storing information, there are two main ways to go about this: Option 1: You go ask your fellow colleagues to send you all the information you...
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How we handle email hasn’t really changed for decades Workplace email clients have proven to be good companions for tasks related to your office job. First and foremost, managing the email (hopefully) relevant to you, but also providing enterprise grade contact, calendar, and simple task management. However, in essence, these software applications haven’t changed too much over the past decades. Microsoft’s flagship mail client, Outlook, used by millions of companies small and large, is still...
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New ways of working come with new problems In today’s often fast-paced business world, people are joining one team, leaving another one, or suddenly deciding to quit one job for another one in the quest of finding ever new opportunities to learn and grow. Another phenomenon that is increasingly posing challenges for organizational collaboration are teams that interact mostly virtually, be it due to the growing demand for work-from-home arrangements or due to geographical dispersion....
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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a service created by Microsoft and released in 2013. This service has little public awareness and for a good reason: Azure AD is meant to be used by software publishers and IT administrators, consequently it is not visible for end-users. However, this service has significantly transform Office based applications, and more generally most software interacting with Microsoft services. What is precisely Azure AD? Following Microsoft’s documentation, Azure Active Directory...
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Ever since 2003, Microsoft Office add-ins, which we will from now on designate as “first generation” add-ins or v1, have arrived in successive waves: “raw” COM add-ins, IDTExtensibility2, VSTO, etc. These are mature technologies that have allowed the development of excellent products, sometimes even with great commercial success. However, like all current technology, they are challenged by a new generation. Thus, new generation add-ins, at first called “App for Office”, arrived in 2013 and are...
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Using a management tool is crucial for proper supervision of a law or consultancy firm. This is because it allows to keep track of what has been done and save time when billing. Furthermore, we believe that it is essential that such a tool is capable of generating relevant indicators in order to improve performance of the firm. Reports such as dashboards should allow regular and real-time monitoring of case files, from a financial point...
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Office 365 refers to “subscription plans that include access to Office plus other productivity services”. Among those services there are Exchange and Sharepoint Online. The Exchange services are email backend services, end-users have no knowledge of them: they use their mailboxes using Outlook desktop software, Outlook Web Access or their mobile devices. Remark that, having access to a real Exchange server within Office 365 let you use your own domain for the mailboxes (e.g. bpatra@keluro.com,...
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Most companies require generic email addresses such as contact@contoso.com or sales@contoso.com. It is not reasonable to use personal addresses outside of the company, such as on a website. Indeed, the target employees may be unavailable or have left the company. It is also possible that one person alone is not able to answer certain questions or that managing the flow of emails is simply too much for a single employee. What’s more, Office365 has the...
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After KMailAssistant, a free trial of KBilling is now available. KBilling is management software aimed at law and consultancy firms. Such firms have to be managed effectively so that they can grow. Using powerful management software is a real advantage: the user can focus on value-added operations without wasting time on essential duties such as billing or reporting working hours. Email messaging, customer contact information, diaries… the whole life of a firm is based on...
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KMailAssistant proposes addressing the issue of the increasing number of e-mails in businesses and consolidating the information they contain. Distributed as an addin for Outlook, KMailAssistant allows in particular to gather and save e-mails linked to one common subject in a joint electronic document library in order to make the set of conversations available to all the people concerned. It also allows to assign e-mails to collaborators and to share e-mail templates within a team....
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This new school year 2015 has once again brought its share of innovation. Indeed, we took advantage of the Summer to redesign the graphic layout of our Outlook add-in KMailAssistant. The significant changes are the following: Now, KMailAssistant’s windows adopts the ‘METRO’ look. The so-called ‘METRO style’ of application design was introduced by Microsoft for its applications starting with the release of Windows 8. Since its 2013 version, the Office suite has itself also featured...
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It was the star of the 2000s and since then it has almost become the enemy to be defeated. We receive every day more and more emails and so we spend more and more time each day to read them, classify them, shortly respond to them, and manage them. The increasing number of emails is sometimes caused by a low optimal use of the latter. For example, by gathering many people in copy exchanges, answering...
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“The cloud” is ever more present: “share your files over the cloud”, “access your files from your smartphone with the power of the cloud”, “because of the cloud, everyone can access your data”, “make savings thanks to the cloud” are common expressions. But what is “the cloud”, really? “The cloud” is a bit of a catch-all term for using remote computers (whether in the next room or on the other side of the planet), that...
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Either on the internet or in your computer, your data are usually protected with a password of your choice. But what’s behind a password, and why do we always say that one must choose a long one with numbers? Once you have entered your user name and password, the software or websites verify through their database that the two match. Contrary to popular belief, this kind of software only rarely knows the users’ passwords, as...
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If every month witnesses the emergence of new connected devices and new working software, it seems that the e-mail have not known any major changes for ten years or so. Yet, e-mails daily occupy a growing part of our professional activity. Meeting invitations, report exchange, and information requests mingle in our inbox with news of the family, funny videos, and the latest offers for plane tickets without forgetting Spam… This usage diversity makes it increasingly...
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Numerous examples show that computing is revolutionizing many professions. Start-up companies are regarded as competitors of aging industries and it seems that soon we will be able to live equipped with only a smartphone… However, there are little-spoken-of companies which are neither start-ups nor large companies; this is the case of legal professions. Yet, IT also influences the future of law firms for example. By studying the current innovations, we can highlight several major trends,...
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Excel 5.0 in 1993 was the first version of the product to support VBA and Excel 2003 came with the support of addins. Excel 2013 is also a landmark in the history of customized Office programming with the launch of Apps For Office. Indeed they bring a very promising technology for tailored development and also benefit from new ways of distribution. You can distribute your app through an online store but you can also setup...
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Indeed, why would we name our software company Keluro? We are specialized in Microsoft Office® technologies and mainly in add-ins and apps. We could have named ourselves “Excellent add-ins”, “Email Sharing Software” or “Best apps for Office ever” but well, we went with Keluro. To explain this reason I need to tell you how, Benoît and I, the two Keluro founders met each others. Actually we built a non-profit association, few years ago, to participate...
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