Analytical Views

Generate simple, effective analytical views of your business’ critical information at any time, using pre-defined and easy-to-use functionality.

familiar user interface integrated with users’ desktops

Business Analytics Base Functionality enables users to work directly with Excel, which they already know and use. Business Analytics Advanced offers a graphical Microsoft Outlook-style interface for detailed analyses, maintaining the simplicity and ease of use that characterize Microsoft Navision. Or, use a front-end solution of your choice.

analyses tailored to your needs

Business Analytics Base Functionality: From within Microsoft Navision, define and easily modify OLAP information cubes to meet data needs specific to your business, or create new cubes based on these relationships. Save and reuse cubes.

Automate report generation

Business Analytics Advanced: With the schedule option, set up a report once and have Business Analytics distribute it automatically, with updated information, to the relevant people via e-mail.

Multiple Objects in One view

Business Analytics Advanced: View multiple objects such as a table, a pie chart, or a global map in one view.

Customizable Objects

Business Analytics Advanced: Once an object such as a table or a graph has been created it can be saved, retrieved, and updated at any time.

Use Business Analysis across Your entire organization

Business Analytics Advanced: Business Analytics comes with five key functional areas including Finance, SCM, CRM, Sales and Project (Jobs); you can use these capabilities across your organization as soon as implementation is complete.

notification

Business Analytics Advanced: Set up the system to notify you by e-mail if crucial numbers change, for example, if your profit drops under a certain percentage. You can choose to be notified daily, weekly or monthly.

Web-enabled

Business Analytics Advanced: Using the Business Analytics Web Viewer, you can access and update all existing views and objects for which you have permission, anytime and anywhere online. To use the Business Analytics Web Viewer, you simply require a Web browser and an Internet connection.

MS SQL Server Analysis Services

A Data Transformation Services (DTS) package pulls data from Microsoft Navision into SQL tables. From here, other DTS packages transform and structure these tables into multidimensional cubes processed in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.