Technology Magazine August 2023 | Page 94

“ The key benefits for us in automation are reducing manual processes , reducing manual mistakes , and improving our efficiencies ”

JEREMY ZUNG CIO , ALVAREZ & MARSAL
Reducing the amount of technical debt One of the first challenges when he joined A & M was reducing the amount of technical debt that the company faced . “ During the last few years prior to my joining , we really fell behind on a lot of things – just like most companies ,” Zung says . This technical debt consisted of old laptops , servers , infrastructure components that were reaching their end of life , and slow adoption of cloud services . All of these things were directly impacting A & M staff .
“ We focused on eliminating critical points of failure – not just systems – but our talent ,” he continues . “ We had key areas which were vulnerable when a person went on vacation
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