Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Overview

Get more from your AX investment

Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX provides reporting, analysis, dashboards and scorecards for your AX data, all in a single user-friendly business intelligence (BI) portal. Get the high level picture, such as consolidated company profitability, then drill down to analyse why, where and what is contributing – such as customer and product profitability.

Instant analytics

  • Run ERP analysis with an out-of-the-box solution.
  • Create dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports and ad-hoc analyses.
  • Turn a table of data into an interactive chart with a single mouse-click.
  • Build KPIs consolidate them into a scorecard for an executive overview.
  • Drill up, down and through data in tables and charts, right down to the actual documents in the AX database.

Benefits to your business

  • Improve productivity: Empower your staff to create advanced, insightful analyses and reports to aid better decision-making.
  • Gain critical insights: See the big picture for your business through executive dashboards.

Zap advantages

  • A complete view of your data. See a complete view of your business by intelligently and automatically integrating your Microsoft Dynamics AX data.
  • Fast to deploy. Zap is a web-based, zero footprint application that deploys in days, not months. This enables your business to take immediate advantage of the out-of-the-box solution.
  • User friendly. Business users can easily create reports using drag-and-drop functionality, without requiring specialist IT skills or programming knowledge.
  • Single version of the truth. Eliminate errors and confusion associated with multiple versions of financial reports.
  • Consolidate your reports in a single BI portal that can be made accessible across the business.
  • An affordable investment. Gain immediate, increased value from your existing AX implementation. Business Analytics leverages the Microsoft® technologies used by Microsoft Dynamics AX.
  • Scalable. Whether you’re a small business with a simple deployment or you have a robust, multi-server, customised implementation, Zap is scalable to meet your business reporting needs.
  • Maintain data security. Administrative tools ensure that users only see appropriate data – at all levels of the system. This applies from entry to the application, permissions to access reports and folders, and the ability to view underlying data.
  • Extend out from AX. Zap is a powerful BI solution. Once you have it up and running on your AX implementation, you can choose to use it for your other business systems, such as CRM or Point-of-Sale.