Power BI Feature Focus: Smart Narratives
What is Smart Narrative in Power BI?Smart Narrative is a visualisation in Microsoft Power BI that uses Artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret data and generate...
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Five ways a reporting data warehouse can help transform your reporting and budgeting processes
Let us start by defining the purpose of a reporting data warehouse in the context of business reporting and budgeting.A reporting data warehouse enables you...
How to accelerate your Solver CPM software implementation with QuickStart for Business Central
Realising the value of a CPM (Corporate Performance Management) solution.Often, it can take a long time for an organisation to realise the value of a...
Automate Financial Management Reporting for Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has many out-of-the-box reports that cover most of the standard reporting requirements of organisations. But as with many ERP built-in...
Data versus information—using Power BI and Dynamics GP together
Business systems are complicated beastsBusiness Management systems like Microsoft Dynamics GP are complicated, detail driven systems; they have to be, because they do complicated, detail...
Right data, for the right people, at the right time
Respected Economist Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institute and a recipient of US President’s National Humanist Medal, is regarded as one of...
How data write-back enables strategic planning in Power BI
Data write-back is the next level functionality for the data analyst and management reporting specialist. Data write-back allows users to leverage established business trends, seasonality,...
Ingredients for an effective Business Intelligence solution
In the last 10 years, the Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Analytics market have seen rapid and continuous growth; the amount of data and information...
How membership-based organisations are improving their reporting efficacy with Power BI
Having immediate access to data-based insights that can drive action in membership-based organisations may be easier said than done. What makes this such a complex...
Every journey starts with a single download
The dreaded swing diagramIf you have spent any time trying to implement IT projects someone will have shown you one of the many variations of...
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This blog was written by one of our Business Development Managers.Weekly I help organisations tackle this question. It’s a big question and one with many...
Moving beyond data
We are the data generationAlmost everything we do is generating data; it’s an accepted part of our existence that we leave trails of data behind...