BIGfish BI enhances management’s ability to steer the practice through data driven decision making. Your financial and practice management systems contain a wealth of historical information. Leverage that asset with BIGfish BI.

• BIGfish BI was developed to provide high end BI capabilities to small and mid-sized firms without the cost and complexity normally associated with these technologies.
• Can be deployed in a fraction of the time required to install legacy law firm BI tools and at a greatly reduced cost.
• Provides access to firm data that enables managers to make informed business decisions to guide the firm towards growth and profitability.
• Unlike many BI tools, we provide over 20 dashboards pre-configured for your firm with the default implementation. This means your firm can start benefiting from powerful analytics from day one.
• Be it top down management analysis or an individual attorneys book of business, BIGfish offers a complete set of fast, easy to understand dashboards.
• BIGfish dashboards cover the spectrum of law firm metrics including effort, billings, collections, utilization, realization, profit, WIP, AR and matter inventory.
• All dashboards support drill down and the ability to slice the data by standard dimensions including office, department, law type, client, matter, attorney, location, staff level, practice group etc. Our integrated security model ensures that users only see dashboards they have been granted permissions to.

• Self-service business intelligence (SSBI) involves the business systems and data analytics that give business end-users access to an organization’s information without direct IT involvement.
• Gives end-users the ability to do more with their data without having technical skills. These solutions are flexible and easy-to-use so that end-users can analyze data, make decisions, plan and forecast on their own.
• Currently organizations are starting to see that data and content should be managed in an integrated enterprise approach. Enterprise information management brings Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management together. Operational Business Intelligence is currently under served and uncontested by vendors.

• BIGfish BI can greatly simplify the process of compensation by creating a single export of information from the accounting system in a format suitable for the introduction to the external data.
• Getting all common metrics into a single report almost always requires the accounting manager to run 5 separate reports and manually key all of these data points into Excel. The potential for introducing errors is high and the ever-present possibility that during the final numbers a payment/invoice or allocation will be found to be in error which requires all reports to be rerun and numbers manually re-entered. BIGfish BI solves this by just running a report based upon date range and getting all of these columns as well as calculations on these columns at a click of a button. This module stores monthly buckets of activity for every attorney who touched a case in any way.
• Examples:
  • Billable hours worked
  • Collections by originating attorney
  • Collections by responsible attorney
  • Collections by working attorney
  • AR adjustments by responsible attorney

• For most small to mid-sized law firms, solving the Profit Analysis question is a seemingly impossible challenge. Firms who have already gone down this path, recognize the challenge is both in definition and execution. BIGfish BI offers a variety of standard approaches as well as some best practices guidelines to make true profit analysis a reality. Examples:
  • Profit on Time Worked
  • Profit on Time Billed
  • Profit on Time Collected

• BIGfish BI provides an administrative portal for the administration of users. This security system allows for the creation of an unlimited number of user groups with security governing which dashboards and features are available to members of each group.
• Firms can also define and maintain user definable fields at the client, matter or employee level. These custom fields can be incorporated in custom dashboards as columns, groups or filter attributes.
• Finally, this administrative site allows for the entry of KPI (goals) as various levels of the practice including firm, office, department, law type, attorney etc. These goals may include such items as WIP or AR levels, billable hours, billed hours or fees, collections or even rate information. The custom KPI can be consumed in custom dashboards to compare actual data to goals to create variances.