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

Jet Global

If your company is using Microsoft Dynamics AX, you’ll be aware of the company’s shift to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM). For more powerful, multidimensional OLAP-style reporting, however, it falls short. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse.

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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. Data Entities. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age.