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Is now the time to move more of your systems and legaltech applications to the Cloud?
We can help you evaluate the pros, cons, options and suppliers quickly.
If you are considering spending money now on hardware or software, you should consider the Cloud (secure hosting by a specialist third party) as an alternative to replacing your current servers "on-premise".
Specialist legal technology consultants here at Carton & Co can help you make the right decisions about your legal IT faster, with confidence ; and help you produce results earlier by managing the transition with the benefit of our experience with other legal practices .
Why Consider Outsourcing your Legal IT now?
This is still unfamiliar territory for most lawyers. However, advances in technology and in the options available mean that outsourcing your IT in one way or another is an option that no legal practice should ignore because of the substantial benefits that can be achieved in the right circumstances. The arguments in favour are getting stronger. We can help you understand the growing variety of options now available to outsource management of some or all of your legal IT operations to improve the performance of your business and we can help you make the right decision quickly.
The main suppliers of legal practice management systems (and legal case management systems) all have some solution that can be used in the cloud, but with very different options available. Our legal technology consultants can help you fully understand the implications, costs and benefits, pros and cons of each so that you can make well-informed decisions.
Also - Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are now feasible and potentially attractive options as all or part of a hosted platform that ought to be included in any evaluation now, alongside privately hosted options, which have been the norm until recently. Microsoft Office 365 or law firms has to be considered too as part of future strategy, with the stack of tools that is being developed there.
The overriding concept is that responsibility for management of a law firm’s legal IT infrastructure and support can be given to a specialist organisation in part or as a whole to enable the remaining IT resources of a business to focus on adding value to the firm through enhancing business processes and providing a better service to clients.
By turning to a managed service provider, legal practices can have confidence in delivery of services against pre-defined service levels. Cost and benefit will vary for each firm, as will the cultural changes required. However, an increasing range of benefits can now be achieved with newer technologies for networks, the internet, thin client, storage area networks and other technologies coupled with a growth in potential suppliers.
How we can help?
We guide you through the following stages with as little or as much input as you need from us to:
There is now a variety of technical options and growing number of capable suppliers in this area. We can take you through the process to select the right suppliers very cost-effectively, having already worked with and evaluated the key established providers as they have developed their solutions.
We will help you focus on the right criteria for your practice and the key differentiators, enabling you to start off down the right track, to make well-informed decisions efficiently and with confidence. Too many firms spend too long going around in circles to make these decisions without a clear grasp in this often unfamiliar territory.
This is not just for larger firms, we can help smaller firms make these decisions too.
For more information or to discuss your plans - in confidence and with no obligation, contact Allan Carton or Frank Manning.
YOUR NEXT STEP: Schedule a free 1-hour video or telephone call here with Allan Carton. Call 07779 653105 or email here.
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