“If only your IT systems could talk…” Steven Tyndall , NextLegal
Learning a second language can be tricky. It takes practice, repetition and years of dedication just to be able to maintain a conversation.
Learning how to communicate with your IT systems can be much easier.
As Steven Tyndall, Managing Director at our legal IT partner NextLegal, points out, our IT systems contain a wealth of business intelligence just waiting to be tapped. As he says, all of your IT systems are recording each interaction, each event it is a part of – resulting in an incredible volume of data that’s being hidden from us in a language we don’t understand.
“Your systems can talk to you in a meaningful way, if you know how to ask the question.”
Asking the right question requires the right tools. Tools that can translate massive quantities of raw data into something human, something visual. A tool that allows us to ask a question and receive an answer using natural language.
Power BI is a cloud-based, analytics tool from Microsoft that collates your firms data and transforms it into an actionable resource.
Billable hours, website hits, meeting data, phone calls, documents, referrals and more. All of this data can be translated. Within hours, you can be asking and swiftly discovering the answer to questions like, “Which individual in our firm generates the highest number of long-term clients?”
Power BI on iPhone 6
Visualised information on demand
For many organisations, once they start learning from their IT systems they are quickly overwhelmed with data. Power BI's consolidates your data into a centralised dashboard.
From the dashboard, you're able to see an overview of your firm. Opportunities for improvements to internal processes and analysis of individual performances can quickly be identified. And its available wherever you are, on desktop or mobile.
Delivering results
For each set of data entered into Power BI, a new set of information will be produced to help guide the strategic direction of your firm. Plus, if your firm chooses, you can now publish your impressive statistics in an easy-to-read format for your clients.
Any questions? Contact us to find out what your firm can learn from its IT systems.
