Derek Lamb May 2010

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Reporting Options

Dynamics NAV Reporting

Positioning of Products

Why Business Intelligence?

Intergen Offerings Reporting Services

Power Pivot

ZAP

SharePoint 2010

Questions

Agenda

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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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Dynamics NAV reporting positioning

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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

Publish reports in various formats Server Based

Enterprise reporting

Subscription based offerings allows

reports to be delivered to end

users.

Integrates with Microsoft SharePoint for central

delivery

Display data graphically with

enhanced visualization capabilities.

User-friendly semantic

report model

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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

Additional visualizations

including indicators, sparklines and data

bars

Support for Madison and SQL Azure data sources

Support for maps and geospatial

visualizations with integration to Bing

maps and support for SQL spatial data types

Support for consuming SharePoint lists and

PowerPivot models as data sources

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DEMO

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POSITIVES Part of SQL

Consistent user-friendly semantic report model

Multiple data sources

Web based report consumption

Reporting Services Summary

NEGATIVES

Requires multiple server products

Requires internal IT resources

PowerPivot

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PowerPivot Features

Get data from virtually any

source Process massive amounts of data in

seconds

Limited IS Involvement

Take advantage of familiar Excel tools and features

Use powerful new analytical capabilities, such as Data Analysis

Expressions (DAX)

Large data volumes

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PowerPivot – Millions of Rows!!!

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DEMO

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POSITIVES Excel based

Large data volumes

Quick ROI

In the hands of end users

Integrates with SharePoint & SSRS

PowerPivot Summary

NEGATIVES

Excel based

Basic Security

No central data model

No data cleansing capability

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

Report Packs – create PDF board reports

Prebuilt NAV connection

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Why Business Analytics from Zap?

Dynamics NAV Reporting Key Features

Dashboards

Scorecards KPIs

Report Packs Ad-hoc Analysis

Business Alerting

Reports

Predictive Analytics

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Dynamics NAV Reporting Ad-hoc analysis

Dynamics NAV Reporting Dashboards

Dynamics NAV Reporting KPIs

Dynamics NAV Reporting Scorecards

Dynamics NAV Reporting Advanced Functions

Dynamics NAV Reporting Alerting and report scheduling

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POSITIVES Quick ROI

Prepackaged NAV connector

Full BI functionality

Web based

ZAP Summary

NEGATIVES

Extra License costs

No desktop version for power users

SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 Insights Features

Provides Self Service for end

users Make IS More

Efficient

Combine

Information from Many Sources:

Chart Web Parts

Rich inbuilt visualisations for dashboards and

scorecards

Work in familiar tools

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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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POSITIVES Full integrated BI suite

Office integration

NAV portal

Other SharePoint functionality

SharePoint Summary

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

Dynamics NAV Reporting

Useful graphical elements

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