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Up From Report Writers: How BI Excels

By Jim Hammond
September 06, 2005

So what's all this excitement about Business Intelligence? You already have a pretty good report writer built right into your time-and-billing system. Your vendor provides over 50 pre-designed reports, each with selection options. Moreover, you have someone on staff that knows Crystal Report Writer. Isn't this all you need?

No, it's not. Today's law firm managers need more powerful and flexible access to financial information than canned or even custom-programmed report writers can deliver.

Put another way: how many times have you wanted to create an important report from your system, only to stop because it would take too long or the information wasn't readily available? This is a common problem for users because even powerful modern time-and-billing systems are mainly transactional database software, not analysis tools. These T&B systems execute complex transactions well, but getting information out in a meaningful report format can be time consuming, challenging and costly. Consider that many reports in even a midsize firm are based on millions of transactions.

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