FRESHFIELDS

Delivery and ownership of technology products at Freshfields is the result of close collaboration between the firm and an ecosystem of partners .

“ Increasingly , the characteristics we ’ re looking for in our technology partners are people who have a vision to provide their software in a way that the end user wouldn ’ t even know they were contributing ,” Grainger explains . “ We ’ re working with partners rather than vendors , and I find that when I speak to prospective technology partners , very quickly you determine whether they get our platform story and where we want to go .”

Below are some of the key technology partnerships that are helping Grainger and his team to power operations at Freshfields :

WM Promus : Provider of Puppet . “ I met those guys and what was instantly apparent was their passion and drive , and a real belief that they could make a difference . That is something you can ’ t hide . It ’ s also very difficult to imitate or to fake . That is really important because it is also becomes infectious to our engineers as well .”

Business Data Quality Ltd : Provider of Atlassian products . “ For Jira and for Confluence as part of the Atlassian suite , again those are very solid , proven elements of the tool chain . We have a lot of familiarity with that , and it ’ s a very well-established set of products .”

20 June 2018