If you’re evaluating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as your future ERP solution, you’ll want to understand one of its most powerful capabilities: Dimensions. This feature could fundamentally change how you analyze your business performance and make strategic decisions. What are dimensions, why should they matter to your selection process, and how can they transform… Continue reading Understanding How Dimensions Are Used in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Category: Business Intelligence
Why Data Culture, Not Technology, Determines Power BI and Fabric Success
For organizations running Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, tools such as Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric promise to unlock deeper insights, automate reporting, and facilitate data-driven decision-making. Yet many projects stall after launch. Dashboards go unused. Data refreshes happen inconsistently. Teams revert to spreadsheets. Why? Because technology adoption is typically not a software problem.… Continue reading Why Data Culture, Not Technology, Determines Power BI and Fabric Success
Unlocking the Full Potential of Business Central with the Microsoft Power Platform
By integrating the capabilities of Microsoft’s Power Platform with Dynamics 365 Business Central, companies can streamline their operations, enhance staff productivity, and empower decision-makers with the data-driven insights they need. What is the Microsoft Power Platform? The Power Platform is a low-code/no-code suite of tools designed to connect, automate, and analyze data across the Microsoft… Continue reading Unlocking the Full Potential of Business Central with the Microsoft Power Platform
How to Connect Microsoft’s Ready-to-Use Power BI Reports with Business Central
Beginning with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central v25.2, Microsoft has made several built-in Power BI report apps available for Business Central. Download the new Power BI apps from AppSource The new Power BI reports can be downloaded from Microsoft AppSource and added to the Power BI Service. Search for “Business Central” in the name or… Continue reading How to Connect Microsoft’s Ready-to-Use Power BI Reports with Business Central
Leverage Business Central to Reap the Benefits of Autonomous Finance
Finance leaders are moving beyond traditional roles. Manual reconciliations and spreadsheet sprawl are becoming obsolete. Autonomous finance is transforming how finance departments operate, make decisions, and create value. Autonomous finance uses advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and process automation. It creates a finance function that is predictive, self-correcting, and continuously improving. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a powerful enabler of this shift, offering… Continue reading Leverage Business Central to Reap the Benefits of Autonomous Finance
Understanding the Benefits of Business Central Integration with Microsoft Fabric
Financial and business professionals are constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency, enhance data analytics, and streamline decision-making processes. Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Fabric, a powerful data analytics solution designed to unify and simplify enterprise data management. For Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central users, integrating with Fabric can help drive better financial insights, optimize workflows, and… Continue reading Understanding the Benefits of Business Central Integration with Microsoft Fabric
Empower Financial Teams with Modern BI Tools for Actionable Insights
Businesses today face increasing competition and agile disruptors. Decision-makers must react to rapidly changing market conditions and need up-to-the-minute data to make informed decisions. Traditional, manual processes like generating reports via Excel spreadsheets are inefficient, error-prone, and often fail to provide the actionable insights needed for strategic decision-making. Relying on these types of outdated methods… Continue reading Empower Financial Teams with Modern BI Tools for Actionable Insights
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Reporting Options
Reporting in ERP systems has changed as Microsoft has reimagined how users interact with data. In Business Central, we are no longer constrained by traditional reporting: write the report, print, and then review. Now, you can review the data you need on your screen and drill into the data on the fly, allowing for faster… Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Reporting Options
Take Control of Your Data with Excel Report Layouts in Business Central
The 2024 Wave 1 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central made enhancements to Excel report layouts, letting users and developers create their own Excel layouts for reporting. This new feature goes beyond exporting data to Excel, which has been available since the Dynamics NAV days. Instead, it is an extension (Dynamics BC Excel Report) that… Continue reading Take Control of Your Data with Excel Report Layouts in Business Central
Create a Power Automate App for Machine Event Reporting and Export to SharePoint List
Jessie Wang, a Dynamics 365 Consultant at ArcherPoint, provides a video demonstration on how to use a Power Automate App for machine event reporting on the shop floor, record events from multiple work centers, and exporting plant floor data to SharePoint Lists. The video details the benefits of Power Automate, and how it allows you… Continue reading Create a Power Automate App for Machine Event Reporting and Export to SharePoint List