“ THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO , THE FIRM WASN ’ T EVEN TALKING ABOUT DATA ; NOW , DATA IS A COMMON CONSTRUCT AND CONVERSATION THROUGHOUT THE FIRM ”
NIGEL TRANTER CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER , PINSENT MASONS
“ We ' re now about halfway through our cloud modernisation journey , and the next couple of years is really around the core services .
“ And , of course , we need to build the skills up with the guys in the tech teams and around that . The other piece is the Power BI platform , which has been a raging success ,” he comments . “ When we first started rolling Power BI as a tool , we started with a small community of around 200 people . We ' ve now got around 70 % of the firm who can develop their own Power BI reports for things that are relevant to them . The worst thing we could have done is create a reporting centralisation bottleneck .
“ We decentralised it and took more of a business technologist developer approach . And we ' ve gone out and we ' ve got data stewards and we ' ve got people who are able to help other people develop Power BI dashboards , and they ' re used everywhere now . We see them all over the place , and there ' s been a significant increase in understanding our data and making decisions based on that .”
Another of Pinsent Masons ’ strategic partners is iManage , which over 20 years has provided the law firm with its core Global Document Management System ,
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