ACS
The experience to deliver meaningful change
Borneo Martell Turner Coulston LLP (BMTC) is a family-owned law fi rm based in Northampton. With branches in both Northampton and Kettering, BMTC consists of nine highly experienced partners and a total of 50 staff across its two sites. As for so many businesses, 2020 was a
challenging year for BMTC. New ways of working and the requirement for a complete IT overhaul called for some real expertise to see them through, which led BMTC to ACS.
The brief T e team at BMTC knew that a thorough review of their existing IT infrastructure was desperately needed. However, they wanted to find a local fi rm who had the experience required to deliver meaningful change. It became apparent during the initial meetings
ACS held with BMTC that there were several areas in which support was required; the existing infrastructure was starting to show its age.
Photographs from left - right
Paul Hooton Field Service Engineer ACS -
Clare de Banke Managing Partner BMTC -
Connor Slasberg Technology Consultant ACS
“We last had a review of our IT back in 2013,” explained Clare de
Banke, Managing Partner at BMTC. “Now, we have more staff and many of them have been saddled with old hardware.” T e risks of not acting were considerable. Signifi cant downtime was
a very real possibility and some of the operating systems in use were no longer supported by manufacturers. “We wanted to be up to date and keep both our business and client
data secure,” said Clare. “All in all, we just needed to review everything we had, IT-wise.”
The solution T e fi rst task for ACS was to conduct a thorough on-site audit of BMTC’s IT infrastructure. T is included everything from the network to individual devices and software. T e audit took around a day to complete and involved an ACS expert working directly with the team at BMTC. “I think it confi rmed some of the weaknesses we were aware of, but it also gives us food for thought and identifi ed other possibilities,” said Clare. “T e ACS audit revealed that were a number of things we could do which would futureproof our technology.” T e audit enabled the ACS team to deliver a fully considered,
relevant managed services and infrastructure proposal. T e main issue to overcome was clearly the hardware, such as BMTC’s servers, which were outdated and running unsupported operating systems.
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