Cloud computing is the future for modern law firms who like to leverage that competitive edge from their IT platforms. A cloud based network in part, or fully fledged, will provide your practice with a full range of IT services without the need to purchase and maintain an exhaustive Internal IT Infrastructure. All Windows desktops, applications, third party software and Exchange email services are delivered directly to your PC over a secure internet connection. With Cloud Computing, your practise can experience scalable, flexible, reliable, up-to-date IT network at a fraction of the cost.
Downtime is a risk to Practice continuity
Modern legal IT managers are responsible for; business applications, data, IT infrastructure management and maintenance. In smaller firms, that can be very challenging for an IT department that faces budgetary and staffing challenges.
Having access to a more flexible infrastructure, on-tap expertise and a seamless upgrade path could free up IT personnel to plan ahead and become more closely aligned with practice goals, developing in-house Case Management systems, working toward improved productivity, better time capture and so forth, rather than focusing on low-level repairs, support and system maintenance.
Removing the burden of day-to-day management of IT hardware, applications and data infrastructure frees up IT staff to become a more active, agile and strategic component of the firm, as opposed to merely a passive or reactive internal function whose profile rarely rises above that of low-level service.
World-class infrastructure with Little or No Capital Expense
Having access to hosted services allows smaller firms to face the world on a more secure footing, namely with a world-class infrastructure that can scale with future ambitions. Cloud and Utility computing for the smaller firm is a great leveller.
Smaller enterprises are the core of the economy, and so an efficient, competitive, flexible IT infrastructure can remove some of the restrictions on broader competition and allow smaller businesses to be efficient, competitive and flexible, without the need for large scale capital expenditure. “Cloud computing enables small to medium sized practices to concentrate capital and human resources on their main business goal, practicing law whilst increasing their competitiveness against rival organisations.”
As operational expenditure represents liquidity and predictability, this is attractive for smaller firms as it furthers their ability to budget for IT strategically, and to account for it accurately.
The importance of familiarity
Legal enterprises opting to deploy some form of cloud solution must recognise that a strategic decision for change requires diligence: it means beginning a careful, step-by-step journey in which the potential, power and scalability of cloud resources, applications and services are methodically added to the business, augmenting existing investment in on-premise systems that are familiar.
At Accesspoint Technologies we focus all of our attention on developing the best migration path for your firm into the cloud. We feel that familiarity is one of the most vital business decision drivers for today’s legal services enterprise and are therefore making use of the best known Legal application platforms on the market today.
Outside of software applications we have access to what we believe to be the very best of breed public and private networking platforms, Amazon and Star. As Amazon and Star partners we are ideally placed to work with you on maximising the very best that both of these platforms have to offer your firm.
Cloud Security
To date the biggest issue facing Law firms with Cloud and Utility based computing has been that of data security when stored outside of the local area network.
Security is a number one priority for all Legal IT departments. Accesspoint Technologies share in this philosophy and work tirelessly to ensure that your data is secure whilst in transit, during processing and in storage in our highly available N1 datacentres. Developing and maintaining client trust and confidence is of the utmost importance to us.
