• Drag-and-drop creation – Users simply drag-and-drop reports, charts, KPIs, scorecards and rich text onto dashboards – no programming is required.
• Dynamic resizing – Layout adjustments are automatic, such as resizing charts to fit a dashboard cell, and dynamically resizing an entire dashboard to suit the user’s screen resolution.
• Guided Analytics – Any cell within a dashboard can be sliced by any other cell in the dashboard; meaning users can easily navigate the data based on their own personal requirements.
• Drill down for detail – You can drill down from a dashboard to lower level reports for more detail.

• Management reports – Select reports, scorecards, dashboards and charts into a report pack, add images, title pages, a table of contents, and explanatory text, and create a PDF. Reports are automatically refreshed on open with the latest data, including fields within report explanations.
• Flexible list and aggregate reports – Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics offer more comprehensive reporting than typical OLAP tools and unsecured spreadsheets. For example, create a P&L report using a chart of accounts hierarchy, and add rows underneath to include members of completely different hierarchies, such as accounts receivable outstanding.
• Ad-hoc analysis – Move beyond reports that just tell you ‘what’ happened, to analyze the ‘why’ behind performance. Users can answer any question at any time by exploring multidimensional data from many different perspectives by filtering, drilling down, slicing, and dicing.
• What-if analysis – Allow users to easily model different scenarios.
• Deep drill-through – Navigate your data on the fly to find answers to even the most complex questions, without having to write new reports. You can even drill through on calculated members and by selecting multiple cells within a report.
• Slicing – Slice data easily, presenting only what is relevant based on slice selections already made.
• Real time reports – Integrate real time reports and geo maps from Reporting Services in your Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics reports and dashboards, and slice them by any dimension.
• Flexible functions – The solution comes with extensive pre-defined formulas to help users with common calculations. These in-built functions range from formulas for relative time, to statistical functions and OLAP operations, adding powerful functionality to even the most basic cubes. It’s easy to add your own custom functions, from simple drag-and-drop to complex functions in MDX, and then share them with users and groups.
• Visualization – Add a chart to a report in a single click, choose from a wide range of charts, and make your chart 3D. See hotspots in your data with conditional formatting and heatmaps.
• Automated report scheduling – Schedule the automatic distribution of reports, knowing that security will be automatically applied so that users only see authorized data, even for PDF management reports.

• Drag-and-drop creation – Users simply drag their calculations and measures onto a KPI. No coding is required.
• Flexibility to customize – Users can set anchors, choosing whether ‘less is good’ or ‘more is good’ on their KPI. They can also add extra needles to supplement the actual and target figures.
• Dynamic calculations – Boundaries and target figures can be dynamically calculated, which is useful when using KPIs within filtered dashboards.
• Flexible formatting – Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics provide a wide range of gauges and options so users can customize the look and feel of their KPIs.

• Drag-and-drop creation – Users simply drag KPIs onto their scorecard.
• Drill through – Scorecards can be linked to underlying data so that users can click through to investigate problem areas further.
• Weighted KPIs – Weight issues within a scorecard by importance, and then sort the scorecard to ensure you view the most important areas first.
• Additional metrics – You’re not just restricted to showing metrics for past, current, and target figures – add extra columns such as same period last year, or trend for the quarter.
• Automatic creation from hierarchies - Simply create a KPI at the top level of a hierarchy, and have KPIs automatically created for the dimension members you select. This enables you to pinpoint exactly which area is affecting an overall KPI by viewing the products and departments that contribute to the overall figure.

• Alerts – Notify users of key changes – to KPIs, such as gross margin falling under target, or a new sale being made; to resources such as reports; or based on scheduled events, such as sending an alert each morning about new sales made the previous day.
• Alerts with insight – Alerts can be sent with contextual reports, to immediately highlight the cause of the change.
• Flexible distribution and subscription – The same report can be scheduled to run multiple times with different parameters, formats, frequencies, and destinations. Report distribution is based on a combination of events and timeframes.
• Security automatically applied – Individual user security is automatically applied to any analytics that are distributed with an alert, even for PDF management reports.

• In their own estimates, Zap customers have saved up to six months and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• Figuring out what to measure and how to measure it becomes easy when you start with hundreds of reports, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and calculations.
• Use them to answer tough business questions, and modify them to suit your company's needs.

• Automatic identification of your Dynamics AX customizations, relationships and data usage to ensure you create an optimized cube.
• Replication of your Dynamics AX security so users only see appropriate data.
• Optimization of your AX data for multi-dimensional analysis and reporting, including cross ledger analysis (for example a Days of Supply report drawing information from the sales, inventory and purchasing ledgers).
• Support for virtual and consolidated companies.
• Scheduled updates to run at any time to refresh your cube.

Re-usable business templates drastically reduce the time and technical resources you need to create and maintain custom analytics. Use templates to shorten the lifespan of your BI project – and gain immediate results that impact the bottom line.

Typically, you hard code business logic into reports, which restricts you from easily re-using this logic across other analytics, or other deployments. But with Zap, you build your business logic into a layer of building blocks that serve as the foundation for analytics. Change this foundation layer, and all analytics are updated in an instant. Create an entire suite of business templates based on the foundation layer, and you can easily share them across territories, companies, and even entirely different deployments of the solution – you simply map the foundation layer and all the analytics automatically fall into place.