Analytics and Reporting

The key benefits of Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics NAV are:

• Gain insight into your business
• Sharpen your competitive edge with smarter, faster decision making
• Help each employee drive the success of your business

Analyze and understand your data, your way
Designed for core small businesses and lower mid-market segment companies, Business Analytics turns your data into business-critical information quickly and simply.

By selecting tables and fields from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV database, users can set up and define cubes quickly using the Business Analytics Configurator. Click graphic for full view...

Business Analytics provides two offerings: basic and advanced. Both offerings enable deeper understanding of information generated from Microsoft Dynamics NAV and help ensure that everyone in your organization has easy access to the same accurate, current data so that they can focus on spotting trends, problems, and opportunities, and can generate reports that fuel smart strategic and operational decisions.

The Basic offering delivers Microsoft Dynamics NAV information in predefined or customized information units called Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes directly to users’ desktops. Users can access and analyze data—within a familiar Microsoft Office Excel 2003 interface or another front-end solution—with easy-to-use tools that enable straightforward analysis and provide a quick overview of business conditions. Economizing their time, users can easily define, customize, save, and re-use OLAP cubes. As they develop a strong focus on understanding business conditions, employees can more effectively practice successful business management.

The advanced offering supports businesses that have more complex reporting and analysis needs while maintaining the simplicity and ease of use that are hallmarks of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Working within a graphical interface that is similar to Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003, users can gain a 360-degree view of business performance and quickly set up and review graphical displays and reports. To arrive at deeper understanding, users can perform targeted analysis of detailed information. With the Business Analytics Web Viewer, decision makers have quick access to critical Microsoft Dynamics NAV data from any location with an Internet connection.

Gain accurate and timely insight into your business
With the advanced offering, you can tailor Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics NAV to swiftly generate the information views that are most relevant to your data analysis requirements. Business Analytics can be a critical element in defining your business strategy.

Instead of waiting for the busy IT department to generate a report of sales for a particular product in a specific region, you can generate your own report almost instantly. Rather than waiting for the end of the month to analyze the performance of your sales team, you can generate simple, effective analytical views at any time. You will be able to make sound strategic decisions in little time.

Business Analytics includes pre-defined functionality for frequently occurring reporting needs; it also enables you to define and easily modify OLAP information cubes to meet information needs specific to your business, or create new cubes based on these relationships.

Business Analytics equips you to stay on top of your business at all times. With the advanced offering, you can set up the system to notify you by e-mail if crucial numbers change—for example, if your profit drops below a certain percentage.

Sharpen your competitive edge with smarter, faster decision-making
Using the data stored in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Business Analytics can help empower employees at multiple levels in your company to make confident decisions based on facts. You can involve the experience and contributions of a much larger group of employees in driving the company toward increased competitiveness.

Business Analytics gives you and your employees a targeted view of your business that allows for clear overviews and quick comparisons whenever they are required. You can rapidly spot trends and identify weak spots to take immediate action. Because your colleagues can access all of the analytical views, you can share your insights, strengthen your arguments for a plan of action, and back decisions up.

Help each employee drive the success of your business
Your employees are experts in their fields—so it makes sense that they should interact with information that is critical to their roles simply and quickly without having to get an intermediary involved. Business Analytics is a highly practical tool that allows you and your employees to carry out report-writing tasks that were until recently the preserve of IT specialists. This saves time and money and gives key individuals the independence to get on with the job in hand.

The advanced offering of Business Analytics has an intuitive Outlook-style interface that has a familiar feel for many users, and thereby reduces the time needed for training. Click graphic for full view...

In order to make you as productive as possible from the start, the advanced offering of Business Analytics delivers pre-defined functionality that includes Finance, Sales, CRM, SCM and Project (Jobs). Automatic installation of these components reduces your implementation time for Business Analytics, so you can begin to analyze your business information quickly.

To simplify information access and reporting, you can use wizards to create reports from scratch and add new fields, tables, or entire business areas quickly and easily.

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