Steere Executive Inquiry System | Iridium, now part of BigHand

Steere Executive Inquiry System History

2019

Steere Executive Inquiry System provides key statistics crucial to the operation of each firm

The Executive Inquiry System© (EIS) is customized and designed to provide key statistics crucial to the operation of each firm. It is primarily designed for use by Firm Management, Practice Group Leaders, Office Heads, Managing Partners, and all Attorneys. Many firms choose to provide EIS to the entire firm to provide an excellent tool for managing clients, timekeeper workloads, and firm statistics at all levels. In addition, it is an excellent substitute for paper reports.

2020

Intellistat and Steere products join Iridium

Iridium Technology announces its merger with Data Fusion Technologies, Inc. (DFTech). The Iridium BI product offerings are extended to include the Intellistat line of business analytics tools as well as the Steere family of law firm business technologies.

“Law firms are under pressure to improve pricing, profitability and service delivery. This combination enables both companies to continue at the forefront of innovation for firms looking to leverage data and analytics to drive better decision making and improved performance,” says Tom Jones, Chief Executive Officer of Iridium Technology. “Adding the Intellistat and Steere product lines puts Iridium in the position of having the broadest BI and financial analytics product footprint of any business partner to the legal industry.”

2021

Record results

Iridium Technology announces record-breaking Q1 results. As law firms continue to embrace digital transformation, more firm leaders are turning to Iridium for targeted solutions to improve firm profitability and processes.

The company also announces new product releases for all four product families and hired five additional consulting/development resources to keep up with the increasing demand for Iridium products.

2022

Iridium joins BigHand

The complementary products mean law firms now have powerful insight into their financial management and operational management, alongside resource optimization and business development.

BigHand now has over 350 employees, 3,600 clients and 810,000 users worldwide. We support 82% of UK Top 200 firms and 81% of AmLaw 200 firms, and pride ourselves on meeting client needs, demonstrated in our customer satisfaction score of 98%, and NPS score of +83.

Key Features

Ad-Hoc Inquires

Use the data available in the EIS Warehouse to group, sort, filter, Top X, even look at data across several years in just minutes.

NPHASE

This functionality is only available in EIS BI. It’s unique, it’s powerful, and it’s easy to use. This feature allows you to build lists by running a single or many queries across your BI. Then apply this list to a final query result.

My Reports

Create standard or ad-hoc reports in EIS BI, then share them with other users. One can allow changes to the report or lock it down.

EIS Business Intelligence (BI)

EIS BI is a one-of-a-kind product that puts the ability to create, run, and share ad hoc and standard inquiries into the financial power user’s hands. Finance won’t need to wait for IT to write a special report to get their data.

EIS BI is available for all of the EIS inquiries as well as custom inquiries and is generally made available to EIS power users. It leverages the power of the EIS warehouse yet allows ad hoc queries and reports to be easily created and saved. One can easily select which data to include, up to 5 levels of sorting and up to 4 reporting breaks, Crosstab (Pivot), and much more.

Key Benefits

My Reports

Classic Inquiries and Business Intelligence (BI) come together to create one powerful tool. Write reports in BI and share reports with attorneys with a single click.

Attorney and Client Groups

Establish ad hoc attorney or client lists, then use these groups to filter your data when standard filtering does not provide the customised view you need. Groups may be public or private.

Summary

Customise an Inquiry to summarise all the data on one page. Quickly drill-down to see the details of that data. Common Summaries: Attorney, Client, Office, Department, Practice Group, Matter Budget. Let’s talk about what we can do for YOUR firm.

Easy Grouping, Sorting, Filtering, and Drilldown

By using Intellistat Analytics as your repository, your firm can move to a technologically current solution and complete other initiatives this fiscal year.