Microsoft Power BI is the leader in the analytics and Business Intelligence marketspace. Many times, businesses want to begin leveraging business intelligence tools like Power BI but aren’t sure were to start. When evaluating a new Power BI implementation the first place to start is with the data. How is Data Created? First, review how…
Your ERP system is one data source. Your CRM solution is another. How many other disparate data sources do you have? The only way to extract actionable business intelligence is to have a global view of all your data in one place. In other words, you need to be able to connect the dots. Now…
Take that old crystal ball and throw it right out the window. You don’t need it anymore. As a user of Microsoft Dynamics ERP, you now have a much better option: Solver BI360. BI360’s budgeting and forecasting module is a complete data entry interface to capture strategies, goals, budgets, and forecasts. Available for cloud and…
If you’re a Microsoft Dynamics veteran, then you know the history of the various financial reporting tools that have been available to Dynamics users. Take FRx, for example, which dates all the way back to 1991 and was actually quite popular. But be that as it may, it was discontinued in 2011 and replaced by…
Your company has finally made the jump to the cloud. Great, but now how do you use the data in your Microsoft Dynamics 365 cloud environment? To report on all of the data entered into CRM by sales and marketing, you used to just hook up to the SQL database that is on the servers, import…
The Microsoft Power BI bookmark feature was released with the summer update of Power BI desktop and allows users to highlight certain visuals and filters of a report to tell a story. One way to think about Power BI bookmarks is as if they were the next slide of a PowerPoint presentation. You can have…
In today’s work environment, everyone in the organization can benefit from business intelligence. With a proper Power BI implementation, your entire business, from the traveling salesperson to the CEO, can see and interact with the data they need. We typically group Power BI users into three groups — the Technical User, the Self-Service User, and…
Technology is evolving and transforming all functions of the organizational ecosystem, and it is imperative businesses execute a plan to implement systems, platforms, and analytics that are resilient and scalable. Microsoft Dynamics 365 (“D365”) Apps, including embedded intelligence and machine learning, are only a few solutions that are having a dramatic and positive impact on…
As you may already know, Microsoft Dynamics GP allows the attaching of documents and images to some Master Records and Transactions — this includes Item Numbers in the Inventory module. So, this got me wondering if there was any way an image attached to an Item Number could be used and printed on your Dynamics…
Do you find yourself having to create the same PowerPoint at the end of every quarter, month, or week? When it comes time for the next performance or sales meeting, you collect the current data, then have to update the same presentation with this new data. Or even worse, you may receive this data already…
