Legal IT professionals: Are you ready to move to the cloud?
It seems like everyone is talking about how computing is moving to the cloud – In a recent article posted on LegalITProfessionals.com, Smoothstone EVP James Whitemore shares some communication knowledge with the Legal IT community in an article titled Five Key Considerations for Law Firms Before Moving to the Cloud.
So what’s driving the change and why should law firms be looking to move from their old legacy communication systems to the cloud? Whitemore lays out five key business drivers that will propel legal firms to consider leveraging the cloud for their communications needs.
1. Distributed vs. centralized enterprise
The first consideration should be whether your firm has multiple locations or everyone under one roof. If you have several offices or a significant number of your attorneys spend most of their time out of the office, moving to the cloud simplifies management of communications and applications – which, in turn, improves collaboration between employees.