Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Help ensure that everyone in your organisation has easy access to the accurate, real-time data they need to identify trends and spot potential problems, and give them the ability to generate reports that fuel strategic, operational decisions.

Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps you to transform company data from almost any source into intelligent dashboards, revealing analysis and insightful reports – all in fewer clicks. Take advantage of predefined online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes or define your own, then create graphical displays and reports featuring the information each user needs.

With the ability to deliver deep business intelligence throughout the organisation in a form that is easy to view and understand, you can empower employees to make collaborative, strategic decisions. Because Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is simple to use, everyone in the organisation gets the perspective they need to keep performance on track.

Flexible analytics

• Generate simple, effective analytical views of critical business information at any time with easy to use tools; the solution stores your analysis preferences and automatically opens analysis using your preferred objects.
• Define and easily modify OLAP cubes to meet data needs specific to your business, or create new cubes based on these needs.

RoleTailored access

• Use intelligent dashboards to deliver the reports, graphs and keep performance indicators (KPIs) you need to make fast, informed decisions.
• Personalise you Role Centre according to current business needs and designate the way you want information to appear.

Cross-tab functionality

• Improve report readability by adapting cross-tabs to meet your needs, including adjusting columns or sorting data.

Scheduling

• Define reports and other analysis objects, and schedule them to be created on a constant basis, without requiring intervention.
• Use batch scheduling to define aspects of reports and objects to be simultaneously recreated and then delivered automatically via e-mail to users, providing a predictable, consistent source to the information they need.

Report templates

Define visual aspects of a report, such as fonts, frames, and logos and save as a template so these aspects will be repeated each time you update the report.

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