Are your customers asking about Business Intelligence solutions for Microsoft Dynamics NAV? Are they frustrated trying to use Excel and the embedded reporting that comes with Dynamics NAV? Until now, the solutions to this problem were scarce. Reports could be custom-built using Reporting Services. BI front-end tools were available, but then reports and analytics had to be developed. Many users purchased pre-built Analysis Services cubes. And, as always, customers tried to dump data into Excel. All of these solutions had severe limitations, which became especially noticeable as the customers’ requirements grew.

Custom reports took too long to develop and were too expensive. BI front-end tools needed to access the Dynamics NAV application data, which could greatly impact the production system. Analysis Services cubes could be built or purchased but were just about impossible to customize. And finally, Excel is just … Excel. And what if the customer wanted to bring in some in-house application data? Forget about it.

The solution to the problem … Impact for Microsoft Dynamic NAV … a pre-packaged, quick-start solution that includes a fully functional dimensional data warehouse, OLAP cubes and reports for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV financial system. Support for Dynamics NAV Sales, Inventory, Open Orders and GL is included in the current version, and more modules will be available soon.