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When premier New Zealand law firm Mayne Wetherell\u2019s on-premise servers hit end of life, they had two options: Invest in new servers or find a new way of running their IT.<\/p>\n

A Kinetics FlightPlan<\/a>\u00a0best practice IT review shone a light on the company\u2019s stakeholder obligations and highlighted their business goals and priorities, enabling us to create an IT strategy aligned to their business goals, with the stakeholder obligations guiding the prioritisation of activities and helping set IT policies.<\/p>\n

In Mayne Wetherell\u2019s case those stakeholder obligations were around the sharing of information, privacy, customer privilege documentation, cybersecurity and the protection against data breaches.<\/p>\n

With the FlightPlan<\/a>\u00a0providing a helicopter view of their business needs and obligations, the decision to move to a hybrid cloud model, utilising Azure cloud was an easy one.<\/p>\n

Azure provides the company with the business continuity protection, resilience and Azure Active Directory enhanced security features including multifactor authentication, the company needed. It\u2019s also providing all the flexibility we\u2019ve come to expect from cloud services \u2013 invaluable when, like Mayne Wetherell, you have fluctuating staff numbers due to summer interns and a successful graduate programme.<\/p>\n

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Aligning business and IT with a helicopter view<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The project with Mayne Wetherell has been highly successful, with the company\u2019s staff embracing the new system. But if you\u2019ve ever had a great IT plan and rolled it out, only to struggle to get users to adopt the new system or process or for the business to fully buy-in to the change, you\u2019ll know that\u2019s not a given.<\/p>\n

Here at Kinetics there have been plenty of times when we\u2019ve been called in to help companies whose previous provider has done a good job rolling out an IT system or process, but that process hasn\u2019t been fully aligned with the business and user needs, and there hasn\u2019t been a change management plan to encourage adoption. As a result users haven\u2019t fully bought into the changes that the new system or process should bring and the company has failed to reap the benefits of their investment – and we\u2019ve been called on to provide the required change management component.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why our FlightPlan<\/a>\u00a0best practice IT review service is such a critical part of our IT engagements. It\u2019s tightly aligned to your business strategy and provides a helicopter view of your business from an IT perspective, and helps you reimagine and remap what you should be doing with IT to propel your business forward.<\/p>\n

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Review your business goals, Reimagine what is possible, Remap your path to success<\/strong><\/h3>\n

FlightPlan<\/a>\u00a0enables your business to answer the critical questions of where you currently are, where you want to go, and how to use IT to get there.<\/p>\n

Interviewing key stakeholders in the business – not just the IT team, but within the wider business (in Mayne Wetherell\u2019s case, that included practice managers and senior partners<\/em>) \u2013 and gathering data from your systems provides an overview of your current IT and your business goals and priorities.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ve identified your business priorities, you can set a plan to get there, leveraging different technologies to propel your business forward, engage you staff and strengthen your security posture.<\/p>\n

And because your business needs and goals change, we revisit FlightPlan<\/a> regularly to ensure you\u2019re always well placed to navigate changes in technology.<\/p>\n

Flightplan in action<\/strong><\/h2>\n

FlightPlan<\/a> considered a number of key benefits pertaining to Azure migration, all of which feed into Mayne Wetherell\u2019s business requirements.<\/p>\n

– Security<\/strong>
Kinetics customers, including Mayne Wetherell, routinely place security as the number one requirement for a cloud-based service and Azure is one of the most secure platforms available.<\/p>\n

Microsoft regularly detects up to two million attempts a day to compromise its systems. Azure doesn\u2019t just fend off those attacks. It also learns from them so it can provide the best and most up to date security system to every Azure customer.<\/p>\n

Azure also has the ability to back up your data in different locations around the globe to ensure that if one data centre does ever go down, your data is safe, backed-up and available via another data centre.<\/p>\n

For Mayne Wetherell the robust security and backup protection met the company\u2019s stakeholder obligations on the protection and security front.<\/p>\n

– Scalability<\/strong>
With Azure you can simply add or remove more computing power as and when you need it. It really is that simple. Azure will also keep track of the traffic associated with your solution\/project and can automatically adjust to meet your needs if you\u2019d like it to do that. It\u2019s an ability that enables Mayne Wetherell to quickly and easily scale up their systems to cope with the summer interns and graduates, and then just as easily scale down systems when the season ends, paying only for what they need.<\/p>\n

– Data insight and visibility<\/strong>
The constant flow of data from your system will all be tracked in Azure and Kinetics has the skills to help you visualise this data using tools like PowerBI.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an option which enables you to make the best decisions based on real time data. In Mayne Wetherell\u2019s case, it\u2019s unlocking a wealth of data from legal practice software, and enabling the company to see how the business is performing and where any bottlenecks are \u2013 and enabling them to make changes to quickly address any issues.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re ready to identify \u2018where to next\u2019 for your business and your IT plan, contact Kinetics and if you\u2019d like to read more about Mayne Wetherell\u2019s transition to Azure cloud, click here\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Find out more about FlightPlan<\/h2>\n

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