Microsoft Dynamics NAV Reporting Options - Intergen

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Reporting Options Derek Lamb May 2010

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Agenda  Positioning of Products  Why Business Intelligence?  Intergen Offerings  Reporting Services  Power Pivot  ZAP  SharePoint 2010  Questions

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Choosing Reporting products  Buy vs Build?  Transactional vs Aggregated?  Real Time vs Delayed?  Ability of internal staff?  Who are the Consumers of reports?

 Other source systems?

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Why Business Intelligence?  Number 1 Technology Business Priority

 Improve Decision Making  Reduce costs of producing legacy reports

Reporting Services

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Reporting Services Features

Server Based Enterprise reporting

Publish reports in various formats

Subscription based offerings allows reports to be delivered to end users.

Integrates with Microsoft SharePoint for central delivery User-friendly semantic report model

Display data graphically with enhanced visualization capabilities.

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Report builder 3.0

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Report Builder 3.0 New Features Render any report as a data source to PowerPivot or other applications through ATOM data feeds

“Grab and Go” reporting experience enabled through the Report Part Gallery

Support for Madison and SQL Azure data sources Support for consuming SharePoint lists and PowerPivot models as data sources

Additional visualizations including indicators, sparklines and data bars

Support for maps and geospatial visualizations with integration to Bing maps and support for SQL spatial data types

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DEMO

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Reporting Services Summary POSITIVES

NEGATIVES

 Part of SQL

 Requires multiple server products

 Consistent user-friendly semantic

 Requires internal IT resources

report model  Multiple data sources  Web based report consumption

PowerPivot

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PowerPivot Features

Process massive amounts of data in seconds

Get data from virtually any source

Limited IS Involvement

Take advantage of familiar Excel tools and features

Large data volumes

Use powerful new analytical capabilities, such as Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

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PowerPivot – Millions of Rows!!!

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DEMO

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PowerPivot Summary POSITIVES

NEGATIVES

 Excel based

 Excel based

 Large data volumes

 Basic Security

 Quick ROI

 No central data model

 In the hands of end users

 No data cleansing capability

 Integrates with SharePoint & SSRS

 Could require large amounts of

memory  New language

ZAP

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ZAP Features Web based no client install

Powerful analytics, dashboards and reporting

2009 Microsoft ISV partner of the Year

Easy to use interface, designed for non-technical business users Prebuilt NAV connection

Report Packs – create PDF board reports

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Why Business Analytics from Zap?

Key Features Dynamics NAV Reporting

Reports

Report Packs

KPIs

Scorecards

Ad-hoc Analysis

Dashboards

Business Alerting

Predictive Analytics

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ZAP Summary POSITIVES

NEGATIVES

 Quick ROI

 Extra License costs

 Prepackaged NAV connector

 No desktop version for power

 Full BI functionality  Web based

users

SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 Insights Features

Make IS More Efficient

Provides Self Service for end users

Combine Information from Many Sources:

Chart Web Parts

Work in familiar tools

Rich inbuilt visualisations for dashboards and scorecards

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Microsoft BI platform

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Dashboards

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Scorecards

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Excel Services

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Decomposition Trees

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SharePoint Summary POSITIVES  Full integrated BI suite  Office integration  NAV portal  Other SharePoint functionality

NEGATIVES  Only available on Enterprise

edition.  No budgeting/planning tool

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Business Intelligence Summary  Powerpivot – Great exploratory tool  Reporting Services – Enterprise reporting  ZAP – Fast ROI Business Intelligence  SharePoint – Unlimited capabilities

Questions

Thank You

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Useful graphical elements

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