E-BILLING
The Paperless Office Has Arrived…
Major clients, particularly insurance companies and banks, now use sophisticated tools to automate, analyze and audit law firm billings. As a result, in addition to the traditional hardcopy invoice, they need billing details in an uploadable format suitable for computer analysis. There is a wide range of products in use on the client side and each system requires a specific data file layout. Data Fusion provides Elite firms with a simple, easy-to-use method for generating these file formats that does not interfere with normal billing operations. [..more]

REPORT PACKAGES
Beyond the Basics…
The Elite Professional Billing System (EPBS) includes a comprehensive set of over 100 standard reports and a full-featured inquiry system. For the vast majority of firms, these cover 95% of their reporting needs. However, many firms have specialized reporting needs driven by profitability goals, compensation arrangements, market analysis or other management objectives. These factors require data to be processed and presented in a context that may not be available in the standard package. [..more]

BILL TEMPLATES
Making a Good Impression, Meeting Client Needs
The contents and appearance of your invoice is an important aspect of your firm's public perception. More importantly, providing prospective clients with specific bill details is often a prerequisite to providing services. The Elite Professional Billing System offers a variety of facilities designed to give you the utmost flexibility in presenting account information and billing information. From the simplest "one-size-fits-all" to advanced task-based budgeting spreadsheets, Elite has a bill presentation solution to meet your needs. [..more]

VAULT MODULE
For many larger firms, prior period adjustments represent a significant hurdle to accurate reporting of month-end statistics. Simply put, Elite has no mechanism allowing firms to recreate exactly what the state of the Elite tables were at any month-end. Currently, firms needing to accurately go back in time must resort to costly extra servers, backup and restore procedures that are difficult to maintain and execute without the aid of professional IT staff. [..more]

BROWSER-BASED PARTNER/ATTORNEY EVALUATIONS
Your Evaluation Process – Your Way
Many law firms evaluate the performance of their lawyers annually. The evaluation process often supports the distribution of firm income, awarding of partnerships and other significant personnel decisions. Although nearly all firms engage in this process to some extent, the nature, depth and parameters of attorney evaluations vary considerably from firm to firm. In spite of the differences encountered, Data Fusion has found that moving the evaluation process from paper reports to the browser has greatly simplified and improved this annual procedure. [..more]

CUSTOM EVENT-DRIVEN REPORTING
Exception Reporting Delivered Via E-mail
The quantity of information available to managers today makes it impractical to try to keep up with the deluge of data presented in traditional reports. To survive in this environment, it is important to use technology to control the information stream and help you focus on the trends and developments that really require your attention. [..more]

RATE NEGOTIATOR
Using Business Intelligence to Successfully Negotiate Rates
Managing client rates and discounts is a growing challenge for firm partners and administrators. Our Rate Negotiator allows a firm to set rate approval guidelines, provides partners with historical rate data, and performs profitability analyses specific to the client, the area of law, firm offices, etc. [..more]