ERP systems were built to collect data, not report on it. There’s no way you have the time or inclination to memorize the thousands of tables in your ERP to get the right numbers from Power BI.
You’re not the only one who needs to make data-driven decisions, so you need to make sure everyone is using the same set of numbers and can see budgets, forecasts and actuals in a way that enables fast, effective decisions.
Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, legacy systems, Excel—your data might live in multiple locations, but that doesn’t mean accessing it with Power BI should be complicated or expensive.
You don’t have to be an IT expert in leveraging Power BI dashboards. Anyone in your organization can quickly and easily create stunning dashboards inside Power BI using organized, secure data without complicated and time-consuming data models or technical expertise.
Easy to access and easy to use, insightsoftware offers business intelligence solutions that deliver a fast, flexible data warehouse and analytics platform with a single, seamless set of data optimized for the user experience inside Power BI. This combination allows for consistent decision making with the powerful visualization your users want. Everyone sees the data through the same scope.
See your plan, budget, and forecast data alongside actuals from your ERP inside Power BI. Calculate variances and track trends. Simplify workflows and make your users more productive by embedding planning data entry forms inside Power BI so that changes to budgets and forecasts are reflected immediately in your dashboards.
Attractive visualizations help to quickly identify trends and spot anomalies, painting the bigger picture of your business operations. Advanced security and controls ensure that the right users have access to the right data, the way they need to see it. Also, you aren’t limited to Power BI exclusively, because you can leverage Excel, Office 365, and mobile applications as needed.
As part of our obsession with data, we want to share FIVE things you probably didn’t know about Power BI, and explain how they can introduce risk into your business intelligence project, offering pointers to overcome the challenges.
It was a huge relief to be able to hook up Power BI to Jet and avoid the complicated Dynamics NAV database setup usually required. All the hard work was already done for me!
