We understand that you want the smarts that business intelligence provides, but without the typical cost, time and drain on technical resources. That’s why we’ve created a packaged solution that lets you buy, not build a solution – and do this quickly and effectively. We provide Zap CubeXpress to build your cube instantly, including the customizations and security from Dynamics, even for entire vertical solutions. We provide packaged analytic content so that you have meaningful insight from day one of your implementation. And the user interface is web-based, with no installation required, which enables rapid rollout. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics is easy and fast to use, while providing the scalability and flexibility for even the largest enterprise installations.











Deployment and integration

Technology
  • The zero footprint web architecture ensures no intrusion on your users' computers.
  • Support for multiple browsers: Internet Explorer®, Google Chrome®, Apple Safari®, Apple Mobile Safari® (iPad). Refer to the pdf below for version details.
  • Use Zap CubeXpress to create an optimized OLAP cube, including Microsoft Dynamics® customizations and security.
  • A wizard for server-side installation determines what is already installed and identifies any complexities with the installation.
  • View analytics via Outlook®, export to Excel®, or integrate with SharePoint®.
  • Support for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 / 5.0 / 2009.
  • 100% Microsoft technology, minimizing the skills and resources you need to deploy analytics. For example, call your existing Reporting Services reports and pass parameters to filter them dynamically.
  • Specifically designed to minimize network bandwidth usage.
  • Highly scalable from one to thousands of users. Suitable for SMEs through to enterprises.
  • Architecture can be either multi-tenancy or single on premise.
  • Users can create their own custom analytics, without relying on technical resources.
  • Zap's architecture supports the automatic presentation of the solution in the user's local language. Contact us for a list of supported languages.
  • Extend the solution to other non-Dynamics business systems to create a single, company-wide BI portal.
  • Easily export analytics to standardize across regions and companies, even across different deployments; create custom calculations and analytic templates to share with users; and customize the help when you add new capabilities.

Application Architecture
  • Zap is a self-contained, multi-tiered application based on Microsoft's .NET runtime and the ASP.NET framework.
  • Utilizes the Microsoft Windows Server platform and interoperates with Microsoft's SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services.
  • The solution comprises multiple components, including the client access layer, the presentation layer, business intelligence components, business intelligence core, and external components.

Zap CubeXpress

Zap CubeXpress Diagram for Microsoft Dynamics
Zap CubeXpress is Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2

Some BI solutions come with "standard cubes" but your Dynamics NAV installation is customized to suit your particular needs. Zap CubeXpress provides a wizard-driven process that automatically identifies Microsoft Dynamics customizations, relationships, and data usage to produce an optimized, meaningful cube that you can use immediately. This greatly reduces the technical resources you need to build a SQL Server data warehouse to produce an optimized Analysis Services OLAP cube. You can run the process at any time to keep the cube up-to-date with ongoing changes.

 

     
  “It provides exponential productivity savings - it's like instantly getting another couple of programmers.”  




Jeff Wilson
IT Director
Bowles Fluidics
     
  “I can create an Analysis Services cube in 10% of the time it would take me using manual processes.”  




Panayiotis Kazanis
Chief Technology Officer
Predictive Analytics
     
  “I wanted rapid cube creation and maintenance, using a process that I could control myself.”  




Blair Fleming
Natura World

Zap CubeXpress creates a single, lean hypercube for all your NAV data. Why is this important? It means you don't have any restrictions due to data being kept in separate cubes. Your data is seamlessly integrated, and you can run cross-ledger analysis, like Inventory Days of Supply; Bookings, Billings & Backlog, or a Corporate Scorecard across different departments.

Zap CubeXpress can also be used to build a cube for a SQL Server® database.

Watch a demo of Zap CubeXpress for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Architecture - Either multi-tenancy or single on premise
Architecture Diagram for Microsoft Dynamics