Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Technical specifications

OLAP-style analysis out-of-the-box

This is a turnkey business intelligence (BI) solution that reads data from your Microsoft NAV database and presents it via the Zap web 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 NAV data.
  • Presentation of analytical and structured reports through the Zap web portal.
  • Infinite click-through and support for cell-level actions and KPIs defined in OLAP cubes.

Deployment and integration

  • The installer simplifies installation and configuration of the middle-tier data warehouse components. Process the pre-built data warehouse and your NAV business data is ready for analysis within minutes of deployment.
  • 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 minimise network bandwidth usage.
  • Leverages the performance of 64-bit platforms to optimise 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 authorisation 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™ 2000, 2005* (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
  • Client: Internet Explorer 6, 7*

Architecture

MS NAV Diagram

*Recommended