The guiding principal when designing any dashboard should be to ensure your users understand key information at a glance. Ideally, a user taking their first look at your dashboard should be able to understand key information within a few seconds. Achieving this is not rocket science, simply applying a few simple principles to your decision making will transform your dashboards.   First off, make sure your dashboard is focused. If I’m looking at a dashboard that contains information for five different roles in the organisation, I need to filter out or navigate round views for all the others to get…

Speak to pretty much any application vendor whose been around for some time and they’ll likely tell you their resources are focused heavily on modernization. Understandable, given how rapidly our industry has been changing over the last few years, and the constant barrage of social chatter around cloud, mobility and SaaS. Yet look at any recent survey of CIO investment priorities and you’ll find modernization of enterprise applications is near the bottom. We think this is because disruptive change within industry is not being driven by change to core business applications (which is often very expensive and presents huge risk),…

Workflow is a key component for any legal practice – increasing efficiencies, improving customer service and coping with evolving regulatory requirements – which is why legal case management has always been a key focus area for software developers. The market leader in legal case management is Lexis® Visualfiles from LexisNexis. The Visualfiles “toolkit” allows organisations to expand the standard solution, adding their own entities and workflows to match any business requirement, automating even the most complex processes. Today, Visualfiles is the most widely used case and matter management system in the UK with more than 25,000 registered users in firms…

Look up pretty much any survey on IT priorities over the last few years, and analytics is consistently number one. Not only that, the number of decision makers reporting that it is their highest priority is growing year on year. Why? Well we think the major reason is modern analytics offers real disruptive change for organisations, rather than just the iterative efficiencies afforded by traditional BI. This change has been driven by the development from passive reporting to technology that allows users to actively discover, share and collaborate with insight about their organisation. In our presentation at PUG Challenge EMEA…