CIO interview: Julie Berry of Saffery Champness advances business advisory role for IT
Summary
Julie Berry, IT partner at accountancy firm Saffery Champness, has a great deal of experience in the legal sector, too. It just doesn’t provide agility.” There is a more profound advantage, too, with respect to the nature of the job of the IT professional, that cloud provision of applications confers, she says. The cloud document management system the firm chose and implemented last year, NetDocuments, has stood it in good stead during the Covid-19 coronavirus public health crisis. This is crucial for employee productivity and happiness as we look to attract and retain the best talent” The system is used by 600 professionals and partners and 200 support staff in the UK mainland and in Dublin. “Enabling staff to access our documents from anywhere using their device of choice is becoming increasingly important, especially as working practices change,” Berry concludes.