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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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Financial Intelligence vs. Business Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

Several decades ago, most finance professionals were thinking about their internal systems as “accounting software.” Finance leaders that were quick to recognize the new paradigm got a head start, using the new technology to make their organizations more efficient and profitable. A new paradigm in reporting and analysis is emerging.

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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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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. Data Entities.

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Master Your Power BI Environment with Tabular Models

Jet Global

Power BI provides users with some very nice dashboarding and reporting capabilities. Unfortunately, it also introduces a mountain of complexity into the reporting process. Let’s begin with an overview of how data analytics works for most business applications. This process requires some very specialized expertise.

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Reduce IT Dependence for SAP S/4HANA Reporting

Jet Global

As the first in-memory database for SAP, HANA was revolutionary, bringing together the best characteristics of both traditional online transaction processing and online analytical processing. Let’s begin with an overview of the reporting tools that SAP provides for its current ERP offering.