Should you create reports using your Microsoft Dynamics data directly in SQL? Or should you use FRx or Management Reporter? Or how about one of the many reporting tools available for Dynamics? Better yet, consider a business intelligence solution for your reporting needs. With business intelligence (BI), you can design reports right on your screen [...]
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Do You Know How to Analyze Data?
A few years ago I interviewed for a position that included some pretty significant data analysis. “Do you know how to analyze data?” asked the interviewer. Of course I did. I knew how to read all the latest data visualizations, I knew the most popular and many, many lesser-known KPIs and metrics and how they [...]
continue reading...How Business Intelligence (BI) Turns Data into Insight
With high-value information that is timely, accurate, and actionable, decision makers can steer their companies to higher profits. Business intelligence (BI) provides insights into every area of your organization—from operations to finance to marketing—that can impact your bottom line. BI allows users to manipulate data to reveal trends, similarities, and outliers through dashboards, pre-designed reports, [...]
continue reading...Effective ERP Demands Updated Business Processes
Remote operations, home-based workers and accelerating customer expectations are all reasons that smart organizations are revisiting their current business processes. Many of the processes that worked when the entire team was in one warehouse or office don’t provide the best support for the extended workplace. Customers expect immediate responses with real time status. Department managers [...]
continue reading...Business Intelligence for ERP and More
No longer do you need to spend 6 digits for a Business Intelligence solution that can report, budget, analyze, and graphically represent your ERP data live and from a data warehouse. For many businesses there are more than one business system and related databases that require consolidated reporting, budgeting, analysis and graphical representation. No longer do [...]
continue reading...FRx RIP: Outstanding Excel “Add-In” Alternative
FRx rides into the sunset at the end of a glorious career. I for one am a little sad! First, some history, I sold FRx back in the 90’s when it was the property of Platinum (now SAGE). How Platinum lost the exclusive rights to the use of FRX is a great story. Those were [...]
continue reading...4 Tips to Successful BI in Your Business
GIGO − Garbage in, Garbage out − seems to be more prevalent now than when the acronym was first coined. Apply this to your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and Business Intelligence (BI) and the results can be lethal. More and more companies are spending extensive amounts of money implementing BI tools, yet not addressing [...]
continue reading...Dashboard Design: Go Beyond Fancy Designs and Pretty Colors
Prioritizing Information Utilizing your dashboard space in the correct manner is crucial to the future success of your company. Typically, you’ll have to display the most important business indicators of your company’s operations. Selecting the most important indicators is one of the most stressful tasks of dashboard design. For instance, some of the key performance indicators [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Business Intelligence Gets Thumbs-up from Gartner
Earlier this year, Gartner released the latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms evaluating a strong set of Business Intelligence (BI) vendors. Mapping measures of ability to execute against measures of completeness of vision, Gartner placed Microsoft firmly in the lead. Sounds great for Microsoft, but what does it really mean for your business? Effective Business [...]
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