MILLS & REEVE
“ There ’ s an ever increasing list of very stringent security requirements that our clients demand ”
DAVE BRADSHAW HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY , MILLS & REEVE
infrastructure ( VDI ) to enable employees to work remotely and access systems in a more flexible and secure manner . This also enabled a ‘ Bring Your Own Device ’ ( BYOD ) policy , which was “ a huge enabler ” that allowed employees to work from anywhere on any device securely .
But the transformation doesn ’ t stop here as Mills & Reeve follows a corporate trajectory of digitalisation . The approach it takes will see various IT functions outsourced , allowing the team to work on key projects more effectively and allowing more time to dedicate to critical in-house functions .
“ In the last eight or nine years , there ’ s been a real big push to SaaS services where possible . Our strategy is to buy , not build and select best of breed products that integrate tightly with Microsoft 365 . The Microsoft 365 suite is the foundation to the whole platform ” says Bradshaw .
“ We ’ ve just completed a huge document management system migration project . We ’ ve moved 90 million documents to the cloud , put in new enterprise search tools , and template management tools , and we ’ ve just launched a new intranet . These investments are key to our technology transformation .”
298 January 2024