BigHand Shifts Business Intelligence to Microsoft Fabric
BigHand, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions for law firms, has announced that it will transition its Business Intelligence solution to Microsoft Fabric. This move is expected to benefit existing BI 4.0 Cloud customers, who will be upgraded at no additional cost in September.
The new architecture brings BigHand's legal-specific data model and over 600 pre-built financial and operational measures into the Microsoft environment, giving law firms a ready-made foundation for analyzing profitability, WIP, realization, utilization, cost allocation, and performance without requiring significant time and resources to build from scratch.
According to Brian Taaffe, BigHand's Senior Director of Platform & Data Strategy, 'Law firms want greater ownership and flexibility around their data, but they should not have to spend years recreating the intelligence needed to make that data useful.' He adds that Fabric gives firms an incredibly powerful foundation, while BigHand brings the specialist understanding of how law firms actually operate and make money.
The move reflects feedback from BigHand's clients, who are looking to align their business intelligence more closely with their existing Microsoft infrastructure. This approach provides flexibility to work within their Microsoft environment without requiring them to recreate the underlying intelligence themselves.