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Exploring Microsoft Dynamics AX Business Intelligence Out of the Box - Part 1

by Todd Kuramoto
Regional Director, Ellipse Solutions,

Much has been announced in the past two years relating to business intelligence by Microsoft.  For the Dynamics AX user, consider the laundry list of technologies and concepts that are directly or indirectly related to your solution:

  • Management Reporter
  • Role Centers
  • Power BI
  • Power Query/Map/View/Pivot...
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Dashboards
  • KPIs
  • Cloud vs On Premise
  • Office 365
  • Datazen
  • OLAP/Cubes
  • Visualization
  • Extract, Transform, Load
  • BI Sites
  • In-Memory Computing
  • Natural Language Query
  • Mobile
  • Real time data vs Batch processing
  • HTML 5
  • Streaming
  • Machine Learning
  • Hadoop
  • Big Freakin' Data

Okay, some liberties were taken with that last bullet point. But while this list is impressive, it doesn't detract from the fact that each organization deploying Dynamics AX will have unique data, insights, and visualization requirements that they need to become actionable. In other words, expect pre-built content to accelerate your time to value but don't assume that it will be that valuable right out of the box. 

And, while the range of options and the legwork that remains might seem daunting, it can be broken down into the following points:

  • What's the need/goal
  • Who needs it
  • On what device
  • Where does the data reside and does "freshness" count
  • In what format (transaction/relational, data warehouse/cube, etc. and how should it ...

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About Todd Kuramoto

Todd is the Regional Director of Business Development for Microsoft Dynamics AX Gold Partner Ellipse Solutions in Dayton, OH. He has over 20 years of experience in delivering software and services, and has experience in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), e-Procurement & e-Requisitioning, Decision Support/Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and Workflow (Business Process Automation). 

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