What is business intelligence? A BI system extracts information from your accounting and other systems, refines and transforms it where neccessary and finally aggregates it into a flexible format useful for making strategic business decisions.

BI answers questions like:

• How profitable are my firm's practice groups, offices, timekeepers, clients and matters?
• Which practice groups have a high profit margin but low billing volume and vice versa?
• How can I determine realization differences between practice groups?
• How can I get supporting information when determining partner allocation and compensation?
• What are the underlying billing and collection lag differences across billing partners?
• What are the firms carrying costs by billing timekeeper?

The ProVantage^® Business Intelligence Suite consists of the following:

Wellspring – point and click data extraction and portfolio-building tool

Executive Portfolio – user interface supporting executives and senior administrative staff

• Drill-down and flat views of information –– a flat view is a recap of any dimension in the drill-down
• Dynamic selection of tabular and graphical presentations
• Dynamic time slicing choices:
• monthly, quarterly, and yearly
• calendar and fiscal basis

Focal Point – point and click Excel report writer

ProVantage BI Suite reveals performance within the context of organization dimensions. We support the following measures and dimensions (unlimited user-definable measures can be obtained by using expressions):

Performance Measures – 36 basic measures (by month worked, billed or applied) the number of which can be extended with expressions

Organizational dimensions – 80+ Date effective or current assignments

The ProVantage Suite is unique in its:

• Simplicity
• Flexibility
• Extensibility
• Extremely small IT footprint
• Comparatively small budget

A relationship with ProVantage Software, Inc. is characterized by:

• High quality support
• Accessible expertise based on intimate knowledge of your industry
• Available customization services
• Preferred upgrade status to other software offered by ProVantage Software

Read about how the BI Suite helps a firm access information they couldn't get to before, what our clients are saying, overview of the Business Intelligence Suite. We also have a published article in the LawNet Knowledge Management white paper (PDF, Requires Adobe Acrobat).