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

Jet Global

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. What About Financial Analytics?

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

Jet Global

It’s important to look beyond the surface, however, because there are some critical architectural changes that could dramatically affect how end-users get information out of the system. Reporting will change in D365 F&SCM, and those changes could significantly increase complexity and total cost of ownership.

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

Jet Global

Now, instead of making a direct call to the underlying database to retrieve information, a report must query a so-called “data entity” instead. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. Data Lakes.

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Business Intelligence vs. Reporting: Finding Your Bread and Butter

Jet Global

Also known as “analytics,” BI looks at more expansive data relationships, perhaps even between multiple systems that collect data (such as CRM and GP), and identifies trends that can inform strategic business decisions and objectives that will improve overall performance across the entire operation. BI is macro.

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How to Get Data from Microsoft D365 BC into Power BI

Jet Global

If you are moving from Microsoft Dynamics NAV, GP, or SL, you will need to adjust to a very different paradigm for reporting and analytics. Data access for reporting has fundamentally changed with Microsoft D365 BC. Microsoft’s cloud-based ERP systems no longer allow customers to directly access information in the database.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

These reports are critical to making decisions. Aggregated views of information may come from a department, function, or entire organization. The data may come from multiple systems or aggregated views, but the output is a centralized overview of information. The result is more informed decisions.

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Bridge the Gap Between Reporting and Data Visualization in Power BI

Jet Global

Business intelligence is a key tool, empowering companies to get the most out of their data by providing tools to analyze information, streamline operations, track performance, and inform decision-making. Pre-built OLAP cubes, tabular models, and a data warehouse. Leverage incremental refresh to optimize resource usage.