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

Jet Global

For more powerful, multidimensional OLAP-style reporting, however, it falls short. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse. OLAP reporting based on a data warehouse model is a well-proven solution for companies with robust reporting requirements. Azure Data Lakes are complicated.

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

Jet Global

Broadly speaking, these kinds of reports fall under the heading of “operational reporting”, because you use them as part of routine operations rather than as a financial management tool. In contrast with financial reporting, analytics tends to cast a much wider net in terms of its overall purpose and objectives.

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

Jet Global

Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. The challenge with OLAP, however, is that it requires intensive processing power to aggregate data according to various categories or dimensions. Data warehouses have been in widespread use for years.

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Replacing FRx and Management Reporter: What You Need to Know

Jet Global

Jet Reports is an advanced financial and business reporting solution that delivers fast, accurate reports and dashboards inside of Excel and on the web. Management Reporter. Jet Reports. Mobile and Web Reports. Operational Reports from all Data. Management Reporter. Multi-Currency.

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Business Intelligence vs. Reporting: Finding Your Bread and Butter

Jet Global

It will save you an unlimited amount of time trying to use the wrong tools for the job and mitigate the risk of getting inaccurate data into your financial statements, operational reports, or analytical dashboards. Reporting Infrastructure: As reviewed earlier, reporting is most commonly a necessary, transactional-based exercise.

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How to Get Data from Microsoft D365 BC into Power BI

Jet Global

Naturally, most companies will want the capability to include that kind of additional information in financial and operational reports. Simply adding a few additional fields to a customer address record, for example, requires an extension to that the database to store, update, and retrieve that information.

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Bridge the Gap Between Reporting and Data Visualization in Power BI

Jet Global

Pre-built OLAP cubes, tabular models, and a data warehouse. Boost refresh times with star schemas, tabular models, and OLAP cubes. Build cohesion and improve team output with a complete data preparation, automation, and modeling tool, and a BI customization platform that is five times faster than manual coding.