Prince Evans embraces the cloud with Accesspoint Technologies
Lee Davis, head of finance and IT at Prince Evans, says the firm’s legacy systems had served us very well for many years but the lack of modern functionality and disjointedness of having separate systems was holding us back.
Prince Evans Solicitors is a leading west London law firm offering a full-service range of legal advice to its diverse client base.
Prince Evans works in a number of specialist areas and niche markets, its experienced team continues to provide excellent expertise in all areas of business, property and people law to include corporate transactions, commercial property, social housing and new build homes conveyancing, litigation and personal injury, private client work and much more.
The issue seen in this case was that, for some time, Prince Evans was operating with a myriad of site-based software controlling the various aspects of the firm – which, as a result, didn’t provide the joined-up approach the firm was looking for. With a software vendor issuing end of support on one of the software provisions and its site-based network infrastructure coming to its replacement anniversary, Prince Evans proactively began to investigate a desire to not only consolidate its software provisions but also embrace cloud hosting technology.
Consequently, Prince Evans explored its options and engaged with software vendor and Accesspoint Technologies, which helped the firm ensure the best plan of action was provided and catered to the current and future needs of the firm. Prince Evans selected its new practice management software and removed a large footprint of its site-based network infrastructure.
Accesspoint Technologies partnered with Dell, invested in the very latest generation of server hardware and infrastructure, based around hyperconverged technology in a private datacentre, and built a new hosted platform for Prince Evans. This combined with Microsoft’s 365 platform created, in essence, a hybrid cloud technology service available across multiple cloud environments, be that public or private, to deliver the latest and greatest best in breed legal IT platform to help drive a more secure and unified process.
Through our partnership with Prince Evans, we are now providing the firm with a broad range of services, which includes cloud hosting, necessary consultancy, training and development on its new practice management software.
“Our legacy systems had served us very well for many years but the lack of modern functionality and disjointedness of having separate systems was holding us back. We are very ambitious and determined to be at the cutting edge of legal IT technology, and as a result, we teamed up with Accesspoint, who we knew had a wealth of experience and knowledge in this area, to produce and implement an IT strategy which would take us on our journey and fulfil the ambitions of the partners.” – Lee Davis, head of finance and IT.
