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“ 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 ”

DAVE BRADSHAW HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY , MILLS & REEVE
As the business goes increasingly digital , Bradshaw explains that these technologies have had a major impact on development .
“ We ’ ve completely automated our ‘ joiners , movers , and leavers ’ process . That was 120 days of effort per year , by people just creating accounts , making changes to accounts and processing leavers . We fully automated that and we ’ re looking to use that toolset across business services , and are working with other teams on legal process automation ,” says Bradshaw .
“ We ’ re trialling generative AI , particularly in IT for scripting and development work . We find that it can take hours or days off the initial build of a script , which is incredibly
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