TECHNOLOGY experience that we want to give to clients , and asked how does that translate to what we need to give to our consultants in the field and in the front offices in order to deliver that experience ?”

Strutt & Parker is currently in the midst of a migration to the Microsoft Azure public cloud as it simultaneously seeks to incorporate the use of the Office 365 suite of applications . For the past five years , the firm has utilised an outsourced data centre solution with a traditional managed service ‘ wrapper ’. 3Gi Technology , a cloud specialist , has been recruited to execute the migration — a movement of data into the cloud — and provide a new managed service wrapper .

“ When we initially engaged with Strutt & Parker , I think what they were looking for is fluidity and the ability to access data , information and documents ‘ on-the-fly ’, without being tied to a rigid legacy infrastructure ,”

says Jonathan Collins , Associate Director of 3Gi Technology . “ What we were looking for , and what the business requested , was to have a much more fluid approach toward its technology environment , where it can change-manage very quickly .”

The process of data migration is one that is notoriously rife with stumbling blocks , and technology users can be left to feel the effects of a chaotic migration . Spalding credits 3Gi with cultivating a crucial combination of forethought and problem-solving .

“ We couldn ’ t have done what we ’ re doing without 3Gi ,” he explains . “ We ’ ve been given warnings that there is going to be pain when you go through migrations . But so far , there has been minimal user pain , and that ’ s a testament to all of the rigorous testing and planning that 3Gi has been doing in the background , before we get anywhere near an end user .”

Gamma was also brought on board as a key partner in Strutt &

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