Your data. Your infrastructure. Always in sync.
Sophisticated enterprises eventually hit a ceiling with any SaaS reporting interface:
Backdocket is a SaaS platform. We can’t hand you the production database — and you wouldn’t want us to. But we can do something better.
BackVault keeps a local SQL Server instance — on your infrastructure — synchronized with your live Backdocket data in real time. Think of it as a read-only replica purpose-built for reporting. But unlike a raw database dump, BackVault delivers a reporting-ready data warehouse that mirrors every aspect of your Backdocket configuration:
Everything is strongly typed, foreign key constrained, indexed, and denormalized. This isn’t a data export. It’s a living, queryable data warehouse that evolves with your configuration — automatically.
Direct SQL access to every data point in your Backdocket instance. Build dashboards, automate reports, feed data pipelines — with the tools your team already knows. No API rate limits. No CSV exports. No waiting on vendor support to build a custom report.
Every metric you need for firm governance — case velocity, financial exposure, staff productivity, intake conversion — available in whatever reporting tool your team prefers. Real-time data, not last week’s export.
Whether you’re a holding company, a legal network, or a management group overseeing multiple firms — BackVault makes consolidated reporting possible. Each firm runs its own BackVault instance, syncing to a shared reporting infrastructure.
No other legal practice management platform can offer this — because none of them have a mechanism to get live, structured data out of their SaaS environment and into your enterprise reporting infrastructure.
Even if you never write a SQL query, BackVault gives you something valuable: a real-time, on-site backup of your entire Backdocket dataset. Your data, on your hardware, always current.
Most platforms that offer “data access” give you a CSV export or an API you have to poll and assemble yourself. BackVault delivers a denormalized, indexed, relationally constrained SQL Server database that’s ready for reporting the moment it syncs. No ETL pipeline to build. No schema to reverse-engineer.
Add a custom field in Backdocket on Monday morning. By Monday afternoon, that column exists in your BackVault — typed, indexed, and populated with historical data. Add a custom list, and a new table appears with proper foreign keys. Your data warehouse is never out of date with your platform configuration. No other platform in the legal space does this — not even FileVine’s DataBridge, which shares raw data through Snowflake but doesn’t automatically extend the schema when you customize your platform.
Scheduled sync runs as frequently as every minute. Webhook delivery provides sub-second synchronization. You choose the mode that fits your infrastructure. Either way, your local data warehouse reflects your production state continuously — not hours behind, not overnight batches.
FileVine’s DataBridge requires your organization to purchase and maintain a Snowflake account — a separate vendor, a separate cost, a separate skill set. BackVault targets Microsoft SQL Server, the database your IT team already knows, already runs, and already has tooling for. Every BI tool, every reporting engine, every scripting language connects to SQL Server out of the box.
The SQL Server instance runs on your infrastructure. Your firewall. Your backup policy. Your access controls. Backdocket never touches it — we only push data to it. You own the hardware, the access, and the analysis. For firms with regulatory or compliance requirements, BackVault provides demonstrable data custody — your data never leaves infrastructure you control.
BackVault is part of the Backdocket platform at $59.99/user/month. No add-on. No premium tier. No per-row sync fees. FileVine’s DataBridge is a separately priced add-on. Clio requires third-party products. Most competitors offer nothing at all.
APIs require engineering resources to build and maintain a data pipeline — ingestion scripts, schema mapping, error handling, retry logic, incremental sync, and ongoing maintenance as the platform evolves. For most firms, that’s $20K–$50K in development and $5K–$10K/year to maintain. BackVault delivers a complete, structured, reporting-ready database with zero development effort. The schema manages itself. IT connects their BI tools and starts working.
Your data shouldn’t be trapped in a SaaS platform. BackVault gives you full, real-time, SQL-native access to everything in your Backdocket instance — on your own infrastructure, in a schema that’s ready for enterprise reporting from day one.
Only one competitor — FileVine — offers anything remotely comparable, and theirs requires a Snowflake account, doesn’t evolve with your configuration, and costs extra. Everyone else gives you CSV exports or makes you build your own pipeline from an API.
BackVault is a reporting-ready, self-evolving data warehouse on the database platform your team already runs. Included in your subscription.
Schedule a live walkthrough with a Backdocket solutions engineer. We’ll connect BackVault to your SQL Server instance, run a sync, and build a live Power BI dashboard against your data — in under an hour.
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