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

Jet Global

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. Financial Reporting.

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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

How much time has your BI team wasted on finding data and creating metadata management reports? However, over time new technologies and tools developed to ease data reporting and analysis. This is how the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube was born, which you might call one of the grooviest BI inventions developed in the 70s.

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Replacing FRx and Management Reporter: What You Need to Know

Jet Global

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.

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Enterprise Reporting: The 2020’s Comprehensive Guide

FineReport

What Is Enterprise Reporting? Enterprise reporting is a process of extracting, processing, organizing, analyzing, and displaying data in the companies. It uses enterprise reporting tools to organize data into charts, tables, widgets, or other visualizations. And enterprise reporting is a more specific category within BI.

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

Jet Global

Reporting will change in D365 F&SCM, and those changes could significantly increase complexity and total cost of ownership. Now, instead of making a direct SQL call to the database to get information, a report must query a kind of intermediary layer instead. That works reasonably well for traditional reporting functions.

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What Are OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Tools?

Smart Data Collective

One of the most valuable tools available is OLAP. Using OLAP Tools Properly. Online analytical processing is a computer method that enables users to retrieve and query data rapidly and carefully in order to study it from a variety of angles. Several or more cubes are used to separate OLAP databases. see more ).

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

Jet Global

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.