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Visual Xpress®
Visual Analytics for Powerful Insight
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Visual Xpress is an interactive visual analysis tool
Visual Xpress can access all of the important
for answering your law firm’s most important
data within Omega Legal to help you answer key
business questions. It enables you to analyze
questions and make business-critical decisions,
Omega Legal data in a more in-depth and
such as:
interactive way than ever before. With Visual
Xpress, you can quickly identify trends, make
comparisons and focus on exceptions that may be
affecting your firm’s overall performance.
1.Which types of clients owe us the most money
for the longest period of time and to what
degree is this affecting our firm’s overall
profitability?
2.What is our average length of time to bill out
work performed and the average length of
time required to collect? In what areas can we
improve our performance?
3.In which practice areas or types of law are we
experiencing the largest write-downs and what’s
causing it?
4.What has been the trend over the last 5 years in
our billing rates, realization rates, write-downs
and why?
5.What is our current total dollar exposure from
potential e-bill rejections and how can we lower
it?
Exporting data to a spreadsheet to perform calculations and then struggling to display the reformatted
information graphically is now a thing of the past.
Visual Xpress does all of this for you, and more, in
one easy step—saving you valuable time, improving
your firm’s analytical capabilities and strengthening
the overall strategic planning process.
Benefit
Eliminate the need for data warehousing or
additional servers.
The answers to these and other questions will
provide valuable new insights to help guide your
firm in a more strategic and profitable direction in
the future.
“Visual Xpress will allow management to spot
at a glance problem areas such as slow paying
clients or nonproductive attorneys. These vital
statistics are essential for timely, efficient and
proper management of the firm.”
David Herrenbruck, finance director,
Moye White LLP
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Visualize
Analyze
The right visual presentation makes it easier to
Legal data into the correct visual presentation—
The capabilities of Visual Xpress enable you to analyze your Omega Legal data in a more in-depth and
interactive way than ever before. These capabilities
include such operations as:
making it easier for you to quickly identify im-
1.Filtering the information to focus on key items
organize and understand the information. Visual
Xpress instantly converts numbers-based Omega
portant trends, make comparisons and highlight
exceptions in the data.
of interest
2.Sorting to rank and prioritize the information
based on importance
3.Creating on-the-fly calculations to express
numbers in useful ways
4.Grouping and aggregating to summarize the
data for a top-level view of the situation
5.Drilling-down to view the details of the underlying data for more in-depth analysis
Starting with a view of “the big picture”, you can
quickly drill-down to more detailed underlying
data that may pinpoint or explain the cause of the
overall performance.
Uncovering the “whys” behind the data enables
the firm to make sound business decisions that
Visual Xpress automatically selects the type of
visual display that will best present the data
(e.g., bar chart, trend line, scatter plot, etc.).
You also have the freedom to change the type of
will have a positive effect on its future success.
This newfound knowledge will enhance the firm’s
strategic planning efforts in the following areas:
• Financial Management
visualization used; to filter, group or sort the data;
• New Business Development
or to change the timeline to see the data in a
• Resource Allocation
different, more insightful way. Actually seeing your
data from different viewpoints can often lead to
• Technology Investment
that “aha” moment when the underlying causes for
• Employee Compensation
your firm’s performance becomes crystal clear.
• Personnel Recruitment
• Employee Training
“Omega’s Visual Xpress product is an excellent
example of the type of dashboard and inquiry
system I wish all my clients had access to.”
Don Holland, CPA, Partner,
HSV Consulting Group LLC
• Organization & Workflow
• Communication Processes
• Client Relationships
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Share
Visual Xpress is available in both a desktop and a
In the desktop application, all pre-configured
web-based application. Both versions include a
workbooks, plus those created by your firm, can
set of pre-configured Visual Xpress workbooks with
be shared with others by simply using your firm’s
more than 50 different visual analysis worksheets
existing file-sharing protocol.
designed to answer the most common law firm
questions. These helpful workbooks are grouped
In the web-based application, all workbooks can be
by job function:
shared with others simply by publishing them to
• Firm Overview
your firm’s intranet with the click of a button on the
• Accounts Receivable
Visual Xpress menu bar.
• Work In Process
• New Business Development
• Financial Analysis
• Billing Attorney
“Using Visual Xpress live during our meetings
enables us to drill down to the details if we need
them, rather than calling down to Accounting to
ask for another report to be run while we wait.”
• Timekeeper
Brian Allen, Partner,
• Attorney Statistics
Udall Shumway & Lyons
• WIP Edit Analysis
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Workbooks & Dashboards
Features & Benefits
With Visual Xpress, you can create an unlimited
Strengthen the firm’s analytical and decisionmaking capabilities.
number of workbooks which are a collection of
related worksheets (specific visual displays of
Quickly & easily identify trends, make comparisons & highlight exceptions.
selected data). Each worksheet within a workbook
can be used to measure, monitor and analyze a
Gain valuable insight into the underlying causes
for firm performance.
different set of data.
The best way to organize workbooks is by job func-
Save valuable time & effort versus current
methods.
tion. Each workbook can contain the worksheets
which measure and monitor specific sets of data
Enhance productivity with specialized interactive
dashboards for each job function.
needed by a specific job function (e.g., collections
manager, firm administrator, controller, practice
Improve the firm’s overall strategic planning
process.
group leaders, managing partners, etc.).
The worksheets within each job-related workbook
can be displayed on the user’s desktop in one
Omega
Omega is a privately held Scottsdale-based
combined view to create a specialized dashboard
company that provides mid-to-large size law firms
that measures & monitors key information
an integrated financial and practice management
important to that user. With Visual Xpress and
software suite that sets the standard for return on
a live connection to the Omega Legal database,
investment, system performance and service. Since
the specialized dashboard will display the current
1975, Omega has been solving critical business
information the user needs to perform their job
issues for law firms, improving their profitability,
more efficiently and productively.
productivity and efficiency.
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