Business Chief Europe Magazine February 2021 | Page 161

sites , but we didn ’ t lose any of the security of the traditional platform that we had before .”
McKenna admits that while a small period of learning and “ ironing out bumps in the road ” was necessary , the solution accelerated what could have taken months via more traditional means . “ We are confident that by the early part of spring 2021 pretty much all of our core products will be in a position to take advantage of the elasticity of these hosted solutions , which potentially would have been more of a challenge for us in a traditional data centre environment ,” he says .
This new way of working places Howard Kennedy on solid footing as we head beyond the disruption of the pandemic . “ Our business aspirations are to grow our business , and therefore having a technology ready just to switch on in a dynamic way is a real business differentiator for us ,” McKenna continues . “ As we start to bring on other businesses or start to look at what we deliver against our strategic ambitions as a firm , we will be able to do that quickly and simply with the best technologies .”
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