Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Finance Analytics

Add value to your business through advanced analytics

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Use Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX to run sales, purchasing and finance analytics to:

  • Detect and display trends in revenue and profitability.
  • Provide executive dashboards and scorecards.
  • Analyze budget vs actuals, orders vs invoices, debtor and creditor ageing and more.
  • Determine profitability by company, product, location, customer.
  • Meet statutory reporting requirements.

What decisions could I take if I had this reporting and analysis, always up to date delivered via the web?

  • Detailed sales analysis and reporting at any level of detail
  • Fully burdened customer/product profitability
  • Budget variance analysis performance reporting
  • Supplier profitability analysis
  • Inter-company reconciliation reporting
  • Campaign ageing - analysis
  • Multi-currency normalization and reporting
  • Bookings, billing and backlog analysis
  • Multi-company tax planning analysis
  • Consolidate and detailed receivables analysis
  • Integrated customer analysis - know your most profitable customer relationships with ALL sales, promotional and channel costs included
  • Complete margin analysis, by product, by customer, by territory, by distribution channel, etc.
  • Summary level – cross-ledger credit-risk management
  • Consolidated liquidity analysis

With Zap, the people in accounting and budgeting can update and roll forward information. They can drill down to the location, district, department, or corporate wide level to provide information, as needed, about the company's performance that's tailored for users at any of these levels.

But the advantages run deeper. A simple spreadsheet-based system of financial reporting is similar to operating on multiple databases — one per user, in fact — which for large companies means that software must be installed, maintained, and upgraded on perhaps hundreds of PCs. It also means a greater likelihood of inaccurate reporting. Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems running on a common web platform eliminate such problems, since all users work off a single data warehouse; they also tend to let information flow more freely within the organization, breaking down the silos that departments and divisions set up to protect "their" data from others.

The net result: more accurate and reliable data, greater ownership of data for its users, and greater room for users to apply some real analytic intelligence in telling the story of how the company is performing. The ability to retrieve data, look at it, decide if it is or isn't what you want, modify it, retrieve it again — really changes the dynamics of how the work gets done because you're no longer waiting for information.