1. for Solicitors Business Intelligence Presentation 2013 With Working Sample Report Based on a Fictitious firm of solicitors focused mainly on Personal Injury Clients

2. Do accounts systems provide business intelligence reports? Yes, but its only one of your sources of data. Specialist tools edit faster and join data from other sources allowing for greater range of KPI analysis 10 BI market leaders V’s 1000’s of accounts packages. Horses for Courses Business Intelligence for Solicitors

3. Control Auto Checks and Balances Day to day & Basic Reporting Tax & Regulatory ADVANCED KPI REPORTING IS NOT A PRIORITY FOR YOUR ACCOUNTS PACKAGE Business Intelligence for Solicitors Main Roles of Accounts Systems

4. Business Intelligence for Solicitors Screenshot of typical software that was created to join tables Link To Key Identical fields allows successful Joins Now Smaller Firms can use this technology

5. Business Intelligence for Solicitors Large Corporates have lots of data to manage and need KPI reporting Data Warehouse Project Management Budget & Procurement Human Resources Project Data Other Data Executive Manager Program Manger Admin Staff Filed Staff Public Information

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7. Business Intelligence for Solicitors By joining data from different sources you have new options when creating reports So what are your critical success factors and can we now measure them?

8. What does information from an accounts system data reports often look like? Notice the 006 the in the left hand column It is not a value on each line and this creates difficulty when crunching data as it forces you to read it rather than automate summaries Problem Overcome using SQL Query Tools Business Intelligence for Solicitors Reporting Issue Example within Accounts

9. Business Intelligence for Solicitors RESULT = FRESH REPORTING & ANALYSIS USING LIVE REFRESH TEMPLATES

10. Business Intelligence for Solicitors Examples of Relevant KPIs might be easier to understand It might be easier if you go to the bottom of the video link at www.far.ie Look for this page link http://far.ie/video/http://far.ie/video/ Click on the Reporting Sample icon and print out the report contained The following slides are excerpts from that report

11. Business Intelligence for Solicitors Objective Reason Graph It As much summary high level information on one page as you dare. Combine it with easily referenced drill downs Business unit managers in large corporate concerns have benefitted from business summary reports which are no longer than one page their regular reviews. Then research their concerns. KPIs should have some relationship to each other which may allow for seeing the Bridging relationship in an illustration / graph

12. Business Intelligence for Solicitors Sample Business Summary KPI Report

13. Business Intelligence for Solicitors Bridging Graphs from Sample Analysis

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