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
Category: Business Intelligence
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 Relying on these types of outdated methods… Continue reading Empower Financial Teams with Modern BI Tools for Actionable Insights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
Mature Manufacturing Plant Data Demands Cloud ERP
Discrete manufacturers and batch processing plants have moved quickly over the last ten years to transition plant floor machines and systems away from analog processes to digital input/outputs (I/O), so ERP software could optimize production planning, forecasting, and invoicing, to name a few. However, achieving mature manufacturing plant data takes time as companies experience ebbs… Continue reading Mature Manufacturing Plant Data Demands Cloud ERP
Why It’s Important to Become an Innovative Retailer…and How to Start
What do you think when you hear the word, “innovative”? Typically, our thoughts go to making strides in technology—something really big like artificial intelligence, IoT, virtual reality, robots, and the like. While this is true, the real purpose of innovation is to improve what we already have, and it doesn’t have to be earth-shaking. In… Continue reading Why It’s Important to Become an Innovative Retailer…and How to Start
The Modern Guide to Implementing an Omnichannel Retail Strategy
What is Omnichannel Retail? Modern Behaviors, Modern Playbook In 1931, Sears encouraged its customers to shop the “modern way” with its 1,100-page catalog, free from the hustle and bustle of stores. And while Sears had brick-and-mortar locations, the company was an innovative retail phenomenon that stole hearts by shipping goods by mail order across a… Continue reading The Modern Guide to Implementing an Omnichannel Retail Strategy
BI Tools for Dynamics Business Central and NAV: Which One Is Right for You?
Today, the business world is user-centered, with self-service reporting available to allow decision makers to get their reports the way they want them. The question is, which business intelligence tools (BI) are the best? In this article, we take a closer look at BI tools for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) and Dynamics NAV.… Continue reading BI Tools for Dynamics Business Central and NAV: Which One Is Right for You?
The Top 13 Most Important KPIs for Retailers
The retail industry is more competitive than ever, and businesses that want to stay in the game must stay on top of the numbers…analyzing data to determine important decisions. Without the ability to get to and work with that data, they are at a serious disadvantage. The common problem today is not the data itself.… Continue reading The Top 13 Most Important KPIs for Retailers