One amazing thing about the 21st century is the fact that there is trackable data in everything we do. However, most businesses don’t know what to do with their data or how it can be manipulated to gain insights on areas outside the normal sales and financial reports. There are many ways you can use analytics…
With Microsoft Power BI, you get a platform that integrates with any data source you need, enabling you to create and share intuitive and visually appealing reports and dashboards that can revolutionize the way your organization uses data. What’s more, Power BI keeps your reports up-to-date by managing the connections from your data sources to…
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…
Most organizations have customized needs that require them to stitch together solutions using multiple Microsoft Office products and tools. Spreadsheets, Access databases, and SharePoint lists are often leveraged by your users to address business processes outside of your ERP or CRM platforms. This approach can lead to sprawl and systems that are difficult to manage…
The new version of Common Data Service, which is referred to as CDS for Apps (CDS 2.0), is extremely powerful — and when integrated with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, PowerBI, and Dynamics 365 the results are unparalelled. In this post, we will walk through the steps to create, integrate, and test a complete Dynamics 365 integration…
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…
Most DMS solutions were designed for an era when dealerships could wait until the end of the month to get the data they need. That’s not the case today—consolidated views and up-to-the-minute reporting can mean the difference between thriving and barely surviving. Watch to see how we’re helping dealerships like yours achieve real-time visibility to…
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…
