Reducing IT Costs and Increasing Profits
How Aspire IT helped a 20-person legal firm in Cheadle Hulme and Manchester cut their office footprint, save ~25%, and give their team secure work-from-anywhere capability.
Sector
Legal
Location
Cheadle Hulme & Manchester
Team size
20 staff
Solution
Cloud workspace & secure remote access
The Challenge
Our client — a successful legal practice with offices in Cheadle Hulme and Manchester — wanted their business running like a well-oiled machine.
In practical terms, that meant reducing the office space they were paying for. They had more square footage than they were getting value out of, the geographical placement of staff was limiting productivity, and there were real concerns about how to enable remote working without compromising the security of client data.
They were already sourcing Microsoft 365 from us, so when they came to us with the challenge, we already understood their environment.
The Solution
We moved their workstations to our Pragma cloud infrastructure and migrated their servers into our hosted cloud environment. Staff connected by secure VPN, with productivity monitoring via ActivTrak — giving the management team more visibility of how the team was working remotely than they'd had when everyone was on-site.
Moving to the cloud also let us extract more life out of their existing legacy PCs — those endpoints no longer had to do the heavy lifting, so they kept running happily rather than needing a refresh.
The Outcome
What the firm got from the move.
~25% saving
Estimated overall cost saving versus running the previous office-based setup.
Better security
Tighter controls on client matter data plus visibility of who's doing what, when.
Work from anywhere
The team now works productively from anywhere in the country — no office tether.
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