Telford-based managed services provider e-know.net has announced
details of another substantial win in the legal sector. It has been
appointed by Howells Solicitors, one of Yorkshire's best-known law
firms, to deliver its Managed Desktop solution to 200 users across
the firm's offices in Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Hull and
Leicester.
The project, which is due to go live shortly, will see the
firm's PMS, SOS Connect, hosted and supported by e-know.net,
alongside core Microsoft products and a range of business
applications. These include Bighand digital dictation, Dragon voice
recognition and Oyez electronic forms.
The outsourcing move is the major element of a new IT strategy
designed to underpin the firm's growth plans. Howells' managing
partner Peter Mahy explains:
"Over the past 30 years, we have established an excellent
reputation for providing quality legal advice to individuals both
in Yorkshire and across the UK. We're now keen to build upon those
solid foundations and that means embedding reliable, flexible and
secure IT systems across the practice. The switch to managed
services gives us the ability to do that quickly, cost-effectively
and without risk; while it also enables us to keep our IT aligned
to the needs of the business as we move forward.
In e-know.net, we have an IT partner on board who understands
legal and who brings us a depth and breadth of resource and
expertise that we can now effectively call our own. And we're
looking to this relationship to help us achieve a key business goal
- with the technology and telephony we're adopting, we'll be able
to scale up quickly to meet the demand for our services."
Nigel Redwood, e-know.net's managing director, is delighted to
welcome another law firm into the managed service fold: "Howells
understands that modern, flexible IT is key to law firm growth and
agility and believes that a managed platform is the best way of
securing that capability long-term. Howells is ambitious for the
future and we're looking forward to matching great IT delivery to
great legal delivery."