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Business Analyzer R5 available for Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, SL

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft Dynamics Business Analyzer app with updated support for Dynamics ERP products, broader compatibility with other data sources, and new collaboration tools.

Business Analyzer R5 app for Windows 8 

Business Analyzer R5, is available in the Window App Store. Users can interact with and explore business data from Microsoft Dynamics AX R2, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 FP1 reports.

Use of the tool with AX is in preview only, according to Microsoft's Pam Misialek.

This new release supports data from SQL Server Analysis Services Cubes, SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft Dynamics Management Reporter and lets users connect to a single service point to return data.

Business Analyzer R5 app for Windows 8 

In a blog post, Kees Hertogh, Director, Product Marketing at Microsoft, praised the app's ability to work with AX 2012. "The latest release of the Business Analyzer app provides an immersive and role based experience optimized to consume different sorts of business intelligence data from their Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enterprise application, allowing them to connect with coworkers in context ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.