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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

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The terms “reporting” and “analytics” are often used interchangeably. In fact there are some very important differences between the two, and understanding those distinctions can go a long way toward helping your organization make best use of both financial reporting and analytics. What About Financial Analytics?

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Complexity Drives Costs: A Look Inside BYOD and Azure Data Lakes

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Now, instead of making a direct SQL call to the database to get information, a report must query a kind of intermediary layer instead. As Microsoft envisions it, this will serve up all the information needed by a reporting engine, without allowing the inserts, updates, and deletions that could potentially corrupt the database.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

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Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. The SQL query language used to extract data for reporting could also potentially be used to insert, update, or delete records from the database.

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Replacing FRx and Management Reporter: What You Need to Know

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Since implementing your Dynamics GP solution, you have probably been doing what you can with the financial report writers that came with it. Management Reporter (MR) replaced the retired FRx financial writing tool back in 2011, and now Microsoft has stopped making any major investments into the tool altogether. Mobile and Web Reports.

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Business Intelligence vs. Reporting: Finding Your Bread and Butter

Jet Global

But let’s cut through the theoretical debates and get down to real brass tacks: There actually is a straightforward way to separate reporting from BI for companies using ERP software, and you need to make sure you are doing something about it. Overall, it’s important to recognize the limitations of reporting environments.

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How to Get Data from Microsoft D365 BC into Power BI

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If your business is running Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC) , or if you are planning to do so in the near future, then you are probably hearing a lot about Power BI as Microsoft’s preferred reporting and analytics platform for the company’s business applications. How Does Data Access Work with Microsoft D365 BC?

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

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Introduction Why should I read the definitive guide to embedded analytics? But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics is designed to answer any and all questions you have about the topic.