Law firms run on information. Whether distributed weekly, monthly or "on demand," reports provide firm leaders with vital insight into how their business is performing. Reports make it possible for partners to make rapid, informed decisions to keep the firm on track to meet its business objectives.

Reporting, however, has traditionally been a burdensome exercise for a firm's finance staff. Each report had to be generated, formatted, printed, and distributed to key decision-makers and professionals throughout the firm. These steps delayed getting essential information to the people who need it. And, with the pace of business today, any delay can be costly.

Expert Report Center enables firms to overcome these challenges, getting vital information in the hands of firm executives quickly and with a minimum of effort and cost. The solution is an enterprise-wide reporting solution that enables firms to quickly generate high quality reports from any data source and automatically distribute them to partners, timekeepers, and other firm decision-makers.

• Improves information access and visibility
• Increases timeliness and accuracy of information
• Improves decision making
• Minimizes installation and administrative costs
• Reduces end-user training and support
• Leverages existing reporting investments
• Minimizes administrative burden of reporting
• Increases speed of information distribution
• Frees staff to analyze data and add value

• "Drag-and-drop" report creation
• Single source, enterprise-wide report delivery
• Browser-based report generation, viewing, and distribution
• Report scheduling and bursting
• "On demand" reporting
• Anywhere, anytime access - web, firm intranet, or email

Expert Report Center users can write reports quickly by simply dragging-and-dropping data fields - identified by a text description for easy recognition - right onto a form. Users can produce multiple outputs of the same data without requiring knowledge of ADERANT Expert's database tables.

Once data fields are placed on a form, users can customize the report output to meet their firm's requirements. Users can change the alignment and sizing of data fields as well as add text, boxes, and lines to improve the readability of the report.

Calculations for reports are made automatically by the system and the results can also be used with additional calculations for reporting purposes. For realization reports, users can specify the rate that should be used as the standard rate.

Expert Report Center includes a wide array of out-of-the-box reports to access a firm's financial and non-financial records, including:

• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Billing
• Cash receipts
• Disbursement
• General Ledger
• Management
• Tax
• Time accounting
• Trust
• WIP

Additionally, the application provides users with a variety other useful reports, including personnel-related reports, edit list-based reports for transaction areas, and more.

Expert Report Center dramatically increases the velocity of information throughout a firm, helping executives make rapid, informed decisions. By virtually eliminating the costly delays between the request or generation of a report and its consumption, the application ensures firm leaders have the most up-to-date performance and financial information.

Expert Report Center streamlines a firm's reporting process with powerful scheduling, bursting, and distribution functionality. By minimizing the administrative burden and cost of creating and distributing reports, finance teams can spend more time analyzing data and creating value.

The ADERANT solution can schedule the generation of reports, ensuring the flow of timely information to firm decision-makers while minimizing the impact on other departmental activities.

Expert Report Center also includes report bursting capabilities that automatically split a larger report into smaller pre-defined portions that are suitable for direct consumption by end-users, such as practice group leaders or individual timekeepers. This functionality eliminates what was once a time-consuming, manual process and ensures that the right information is available to decision-makers.

Once created, reports can be distributed rapidly throughout the entire firm. Expert Report Center allows reports to be securely accessed through the web, pushed to firm intranets, or emailed directly to professionals. The solution's ability to distribute reports instantly - whether to an executive on another floor or another continent - makes it an ideal information sharing and collaboration tool for firms with multiple offices.

For firm professionals, Expert Report Center serves as a single, easy-to-use source of information. The solution allows users to view, store, organize, and even request "on demand" reports via its intuitive web browser interface. Expert Report Center can be configured easily to meet the preferences and unique requirements of individual users.

Expert Report Center generates reports from any data source, regardless of reporting tool, and allows them to be viewed in a variety of formats, including PDF, HTML, and others. The solution supports multiple report formats, including:

• PDF
• RTF
• HTML
• TXT
• TIFF
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Access
• XML
• Text Comma or Tab Delimited
• Text ASCII

To help firms leverage their existing investments in reporting tools, Expert Report Center supports multiple reporting engines, such as:

• ComponentOne
• Crystal Decisions
• Microsoft FRx
• Microsoft Reporting Services
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Access