Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX
Overview
Microsoft Dynamics AX business intelligence
Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX is an out-of-the-box analytics solution that turns your AX transactions into insight, empowering employees to improve performance. Enhance decision-making and performance management with business intelligence (BI) capabilities such as dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, analysis, and alerts.
Uncover valuable insights
How easily can you:
- Easily perform analyses that make a difference to the bottom line, such as cash flow analysis, profitability analysis, and inventory analysis?
- Determine instantly which suppliers are meeting performance targets?
- Gain greater insight into planned vs actual results with in-depth variance analysis?
- Align sales with production by analyzing the cost of producing different products, their profitability, and whether any should be trimmed?
- Automate reporting workflows and save time and money spent on manual reporting?
- Ask any question about performance at any time at gain instant answers?
To gain a competitive advantage, you need to stay on top of performance and trends and uncover valuable insights. This capability should be at your fingertips, without forcing you to rely on technical resources. Business Analytics gives you instant answers – users never touch code, or rely on developers to create analytics.
Solution highlights
- Rapid ROI - Business Analytics delivers a rapid return on investment (ROI). Deployment is fast, instant value is provided to end users, and it’s easy to make rapid efficiency gains. Costs for ongoing maintenance and change management are minimal, adding to a low total cost of ownership.
- Instant visibility - Put performance information in the hands of your business users with pre-built analytics that give you instant visibility from day one of your rollout. Even the most remote employees can gain instant access using a web browser. The interface has a familiar Microsoft feel, and users can create their own analytics easily, without needing technical help. Instead of searching through endless reports to find crucial information, use rules, alerts, and exception reporting for immediate notification about changes in performance.
- Everyday usability - The drag and drop web interface is fast and intuitive, and users never touch code or rely on developers to create analytics. It’s easy to create your own custom analytics, without the resource intensiveness typically associated with BI. The solution even comes packaged with out-of-the-box analytics to give you a head start, providing users with analytics from day one of your implementation.
- Instant customizations - Business Analytics provides a rapid, low-risk deployment, no matter how much you’ve customized Microsoft Dynamics AX. Our wizard-driven technology fast tracks the solution set up and makes it easy to import customizations on an ongoing basis, even for entire vertical solutions.
- A single, complete solution - Unlike many alternatives, Business Analytics is a single, integrated solution to meet all your business intelligence needs – dashboards, reports, charts, analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, alerts, and business templates are in a single solution with a single interface. You only maintain and train one application – which ensures a low total cost of ownership and maximum productivity.
- Extreme flexibility to adapt the solution to your needs - Business Analytics is powerful and flexible. Whether you want to extend analytics to other non-Dynamics business systems, or customize the help when you add new capabilities, it’s all possible.