Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Technical Specifications

OLAP-style analysis out-of-the-box

This is a turnkey business intelligence (BI) solution that reads data from your Microsoft AX database and presents it via the Zap BI portal. You can immediately run OLAP-style analysis, charts, reporting, KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards.


Functionality

  • Interactive online drill-down, slice-and-dice, advanced filtering, comprehensive formatting and custom calculations on your AX data.
  • Presentation of analytical and structured reports through the Zap BI portal.
  • Infinite click-through and support for cell-level actions and KPIs defined in OLAP cubes.


Deployment and integration

  • The zero footprint web architecture installs easily and quickly on your server environment with no intrusion on your end-users’ computers.
  • Presentation of individual reports through SharePoint via a Page Viewer web part, without compromising security.
  • A comprehensive diagnostics utility instantly returns detailed diagnostic information for efficient troubleshooting.
  • Performance, security and administration
  • Specifically designed to minimize network bandwidth usage.
  • Leverages the performance of 64-bit platforms to optimize analysis of massive datasets.
  • Scalable from one to thousands of concurrent users – proven by industry standard testing.
  • Integrates with the Windows® Active Directory for authentication and offers a comprehensive authorization model that allows permissions to be assigned at any level of granularity: from a report folder to cell-level data.
  • Offline auditing can track any piece of data viewed by any user at any time, with a negligible impact on performance.


System requirements

  • Operating System: Windows 2000 Desktop/Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server*
  • Web Server: IIS 5, IIS 5.1, IIS 6*, IIS 7
  • Database Server: SQL Server™ 2005 (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
  • Client: Internet Explorer 6, 7*

Architecture

AX Diagram