Your firm's data is in CORE. Getting at it is the part that has always been hard. A&E firm management systems will run the reports they were built to run, but they will not let you export the data itself. Firms either rebuild spreadsheets by hand or stand up a separate BI system to get the answers they need. CORE Insights is the better solution: the depth of a BI tool, drawing from live CORE data, built inside CORE.
Ready to use in the system you know.
Pre-built dashboards on day one — no blank canvas and no wait. Already running Power BI alongside CORE? Same analysis, no second system to license, configure, and keep in sync.
Your data, not just your reports.
Project, time, expense, vendor costs, and invoicing data down to the transaction, with hundreds of columns and your custom fields included. Not an export of what someone else decided to show you.
Any answer, in minutes.
Build the view yourself, in the platform you already use — no coding, no specialist, no waiting on someone else's schedule.
Dive deep into data.
Every dashboard is a starting point. Click any margin, balance, or metric and trace it to the project, client, or PM behind it.
Where is cash flow getting stuck?
Sort AR by client, project type, PM, or anything else, and find the root of the problem.
Are we delivering projects profitably?
Know which projects, clients, and PMs drive your margin — and which are eroding it.
Where is my team's time actually going?
Understand utilization by person, office, phase, or activity, with no chasing required.
Which office is generating revenue, and which is bringing the work in?
Know these two key metrics, which cannot be separated by most firms.
See the numbers you actually manage to.
Choose the data points, arrange them how you think about them, and save the view.
Build your own formulas.
If the metric you need is not a standard column, write it. Simple editors, working on the data already in CORE.
Chart, table, or trend line — your call.
Insights adapts to how you read information, not the other way around.
Slice it, shape it, send it.
Export a whole dashboard or a single component, to Excel, a PDF, a client deck, wherever it needs to go.
Insights is embedded business intelligence inside BQE CORE. It gives A&E firms direct access to their project, time, expense, and invoicing data, and the tools to shape it into the views their firm actually runs on. Think of it as replacing the custom report requests, the Power BI stack, and the spreadsheets in between.
You can connect one, with work. What you cannot do in most A&E systems is export the data itself as a spreadsheet or a raw extract. So firms have had two options: rebuild the answer by hand from report exports, or license, configure and maintain a second BI system alongside the one they already pay for. Insights is the third option, with nothing to sync and nothing to maintain.
Insights is designed for both firm leaders who need a clear picture of overall performance and the administrators and project managers who need detailed, day-to-day reporting. Everyone gets access to the information they need for their role, from a shared, up-to-date dataset that becomes your firm's source of truth.
Insights is an add-on to CORE, not a standalone product. It runs on your live CORE data, so there is nothing to export, nothing to sync, and no second system to maintain.
Spreadsheets and third party tools require you to export data, keep it updated, and rebuild reports every time something changes. Insights runs directly on your live CORE data, so there is nothing to export, nothing to sync, and no second system to maintain. What you see always reflects where your projects and firm stand right now, not a snapshot from the last time someone updated a file.
Insights is also built specifically for A&E firms, so the views and metrics are already relevant to how your firm operates, rather than a generic dashboard you have to configure from scratch to make sense for project based work.
There is no data migration and no separate setup, since Insights runs on the data already in CORE. Once Insights is added to your subscription, our team provisions your firm. From there, you are working with pre-built dashboards immediately, and most people build their first custom view the same day.
No. Your data is already organized and ready to view, in pre-built dashboards. However, the true power is giving you the control to manipulate your data to answer the unique questions your firm wants answered. You can shape it into the report or dashboard you need without copying numbers into a spreadsheet or exporting into a third-party tool. It is fully customizable and is intuitive to use. New dashboards can be built in minutes, without needing to understand coding or hiring a consultant.
Yes. Insights is built to adapt to how you work, so leaders and administrators can each configure views that match their role, whether that is firm-wide performance or project-level detail. Plus, each view you create can be saved and shared with the right people at your firm.
Insights pulls from real-time data within BQE CORE, so what you see reflects where your projects and firm stand right now, not a snapshot from last week or last month. Because you don't have to copy and paste into a spreadsheet or export to a third-party tool, you are getting the most accurate view of your firm's data at all times.
No. CORE's standard reports and dashboards stay exactly where they are, and they answer the questions most firms share. Insights supplements them for the questions specific to your firm and for the depth the standard set was never meant to reach.
Insights is available for one fixed annual price. Unlimited users. No per-seat math, no Power BI specialist, no expensive consultants, and no hidden fees. If someone needs an answer, they get it.
Ask your BQE Account Manager to learn more and see if Insights is the right fit for your firm.
