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CEO

As a CEO, you need to have your finger on the pulse at all times. To do this, you need 360 degree visibility across every aspect of your organization. Reports can only tell you WHAT happened, but you also need to ask WHY – Why did performance change? Why are sales dropping? Why is one region doing better than all the others? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to:

     
  “Previously we’d been quite restricted in what we could analyze, and how we could analyze it, but Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics gave us the freedom to analyze by any piece of data, and slice-and-dice the business from any angle.”  





Blair Fleming
Natura World
  • Increase visibility across every part of your business. CEOs are under constant pressure to know exactly what’s happening across every department, location and subsidiary in their organization. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to view performance across multiple departments, inventory types, regional locations or entire businesses, even those that use non-Dynamics business systems. The solution gives you high level visibility to take in the ‘big picture’ while still being able to drill down to the underlying data to investigate further.

  • Set goals and manage performance. Once you create strategic plans and set targets, how do you continuously monitor which goals are being met? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to create executive dashboards to provide visibility into every department, and scorecards to indicate how the business is achieving against plan. See all relevant sales, inventory and payables information from a single consolidated view, reducing the time spent preparing reports and increasing time spent analyzing the data.

  • Be alerted instantly when performance changes. CEOs are always time poor and often can’t find the time to go and check on the latest performance results. But what if you could set up alerts so that you never missed anything important? Do you want to know which sales staff met their targets for the month? Do you want to be automatically alerted when bank balances fall below set cash amounts? With Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics you can set up customized alerts to tell you exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it to enhance how you manage your organization.

  • Perform ad-hoc analysis where and when you need it. Often when business circumstances change or performance either falls short or exceeds expectations, you need insight into the trends, issues or opportunities that result. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to display your data visually to get an instant snapshot of performance so you can spot problem areas immediately. You need to perform on-the-spot analysis to see what’s happening, and when performance doesn’t meet expectations, you can drill down to uncover the cause of the problem, giving you insight into where your business needs to focus and improve. This top level view of the business, available at any time, reduces response time and allows you to make better informed strategic decisions.

  • Empower employees to create whatever analyses and reports they need. Employees and managers need complete data in order to make sound, fact-based decisions. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics puts the power to create reports in the hands of your business users so that anyone can create what they need at any time. The solution goes well beyond the usual list and aggregate reports to include board and management reporting, which is usually done by multiple teams using multiple offline tools. Teams can collaborate easily, even when they’re geographically distributed. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics makes it easy to create and share reports, and they can be constantly refreshed with the latest data from Microsoft Dynamics.

CFO

As a CFO, you are under constant pressure to produce fast and accurate reporting on the company’s financial position. You need to cut down on manual administration and inconsistencies and focus on strategic work and advanced analysis. How many man hours are spent preparing financial statements and reports? Do you rely on unsecured spreadsheets for analysis? Can you perform analysis across ledgers in a single report? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to:

     
  “End-of-month reporting would typically be a 3-5 day process, but with Zap, we can now complete the same reporting in a single day. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics is a fantastic finger-on-the-pulse solution that has enabled us to increase the accuracy and speed of reporting.”  





Jamie Taylor
CFO
Q-Video Systems
  • Automate and improve reporting. End of month report processing is the bane of every financial controller or CFO. Often managers or board directors need to understand company performance based on finance or inventory data, but don’t have the knowledge or time to compile or look at detailed views of data. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics makes financial data visual and easily understandable, helping you to better communicate financial performance.

  • Improve the accuracy and consistency of reports. As a CFO, you know that if a report contains mistakes or is late, it can be detrimental to the business. If reporting is inconsistent across departments, geographies and companies, it’s often ineffective. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics lets you take full control of reporting to ensure it’s reliable, on time, and consistent. Stop the use of unsecured spreadsheets by providing powerful reporting functionality so you can create list and aggregate reports, including financial statements such as P&L reports. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics makes reports easy to create and share, and they are constantly refreshed with the latest data from Microsoft Dynamics. You can also include dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, set up automated alerts and create business templates that can be used across multiple subsidiaries, business units or business systems.

  • Gain insight into where you need to focus and improve. If you are spending all your time manually preparing end-of-month reports, cross-ledger analysis and consolidated views, you will probably have no time to add real value by analyzing results and providing strategic advice. With Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics, you can look at the big picture. Start analyzing early trends that signal the need for downsizing or expansion. Determine when and where capacity is falling short and do something about it. With the right analysis capabilities, you are empowered to ask questions and become more strategic.

  • Be alerted instantly when performance changes. CFOs are always time poor, but what if you could set up alerts so that you never missed anything important? Do you want to be automatically alerted when bank balances fall below set cash amounts? Do you want to be told when invoices fail to be paid within a set time period? With Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics you can set up customized alerts to tell you exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it to enhance how you manage the finances of your organization.

  • Free up cash. Do you know what your collections will be in three months time? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics drastically reduces the time and complexity usually required to conduct cash flow analysis. Free up cash flow by proactively analyzing payment patterns of accounts payables and receivables – for instance to highlight customers who are paying late, indicating a higher risk of default.

  • Remove conflicting versions of data. Are you unable to make accurate decisions due to incomplete, inaccurate or erroneous sets of data? Do you sometimes disagree with sales managers on what the latest sales figures are? Do you find some employees keep their own “spreadsheet silos” that quickly get out of date and contain mistakes? Incomplete information in KPIs and reporting from various data sources can make accurate strategic planning difficult. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics gives you a single, central repository for all analysis and reporting, so there can be no mistake over what’s correct, and everyone sees the same thing.

Sales Manager

As a sales manager, you need to be able to track, forecast, and report on sales and team performance at any time. Analysis and reports are usually required quickly and for a specific purpose, and getting access to the information you need is often difficult and time consuming. Do you know which products are your most profitable, and which customers are buying them? Can you run ad-hoc analysis on sales performance to determine issues or opportunities? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to:

  • Improve analysis with unlimited slice-and-dice capabilities. Analysis and reporting with Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows for more flexible and granular visibility into your Dynamics data. You can prepare exception reports, perform unlimited slice-and-dice analysis by dimension, and create analytics on any of your customizations. Sales managers use dashboards and reports to analyze how the team is performing against forecast, which opportunities to focus on, and which customers are the most profitable.

  • Automate and improve reporting. Do you often rely on IT help to create, customize or modify existing reports when you are time poor and need fast turnaround? How much selling time is caught up each month in collating and updating end of month reports? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics puts the power to create reports into the hands of the sales team so that anyone can create what they need quickly and easily. Give that time back to selling by enabling your team to spend less time reporting and more time analyzing buying behaviors, identifying up and cross selling opportunities or chasing prospects.

  • Improve performance management. Once you make strategic plans and set targets, how do you monitor which locations, teams or individuals are meeting these goals? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to create tailored scorecards for sales management to provide at-a-glance updates on performance and can be linked to more detailed reports for more information. See all relevant sales metrics and trends in a single consolidated view, reducing the time spent preparing reports and increasing time spent analyzing the data.

  • Be alerted instantly when performance changes. Sales managers are always time poor and often can’t find the time to check on the latest performance results. But what if you could set up alerts so that you never missed anything important? With Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics you can set up customized alerts to tell you exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it to enhance how you manage your sales organization.

Operations Manager

As an operations manager, you are continually looking for ways to better understand demand and allocate resources. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to:

  • Increase visibility across every part of the business. Can you see which products are providing the best gross margins, and which customers are purchasing them? Do you find it easy to obtain performance information provided by other departments? Operations managers need to be on top of everything that happens across the organization. If demand drops and inventory stocks are too high, cash flow will be affected and unnecessary costs incurred in the areas of insurance and storage. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to view performance across multiple departments, inventory types, regional locations or entire businesses, even those that use non-Dynamics business systems. Create inventory dashboards to provide visibility into the relevant data from every department, and scorecards to indicate slow moving items. See all relevant sales, inventory and payables information from a single consolidated view, reducing the time spent preparing reports and increasing time spent analyzing the data.

  • Perform in depth inventory analysis. How easy is it to calculate and measure statistics such as inventory turns? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to perform advanced analysis to highlight inefficiencies, report on cost effectiveness, and examine vendor performance.

  • Be alerted instantly when performance changes. Operations managers are always time poor and often can’t find the time to check on the latest performance results for every stocked item. But what if you could set up alerts so that you never missed anything important? Be alerted the minute a supplier fails to meet performance targets or when demand drops below set targets? With Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics you can set up customized alerts to tell you exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it.

  • Automate and improve reporting. Often managers or board directors need to understand company performance based on finance or inventory data, but don’t have the knowledge or time to compile or look at detailed views of data. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics drastically reduces the time spent on reporting, and presents data visually, making it instantly understandable.

IT Manager

IT managers are constantly relied upon to support the reporting requirements of the whole company and struggle to stay ahead of the reporting backlog. With constantly changing business requirements and a highly customized Dynamics system, IT managers need a standardized business intelligence and reporting tool to streamline administration, training and maintenance. How long does it take to get a new Dynamics report created? Does your company rely on IT for reporting requirements and therefore experience backlogs? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics allows you to:

     
  "We chose Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics because the solutions are based on Microsoft technology which integrates well with our architecture. Also the ability to deploy quickly and build data warehouses easily despite our heavy customizations was attractive. Ultimately we needed a solution that was agile and easy to use.”  





Catherine Goh
IT Director
National Kidney Foundation
  • Automate reporting and eliminate delays and backlogs. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics puts the power to create reports in the hands of your business users so that anyone can create what they need at any time. The solution goes well beyond the usual list and aggregate reports to include management reporting, which is usually done by multiple teams using multiple offline tools. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics provides a single, online platform for management reporting where you can create a report structure and have it automatically refreshed on open. Teams can collaborate easily, even when they’re geographically distributed.

  • Avoid long complex implementations. Often, IT managers can’t afford to spend more resources and time installing, maintaining and supporting new products. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics is a web-based application which means fewer products to install, maintain, and support. The solution provides a wizard-driven process that automatically identifies your Microsoft Dynamics customizations, relationships, and data usage to produce an optimized, meaningful cube you can use immediately. This greatly reduces the technical resources you need to get started, and means you can run the process at any time to keep your cube up-to-date with ongoing changes. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics eliminates the need to maintain and train on multiple applications, meeting ALL your reporting and analysis needs from a single, complete business intelligence solution.

  • Reduce technical resource drain. IT managers are always time and resource poor. Do you currently have sufficient time and resources to install, maintain and support the different reporting tools being used by your company? Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics requires only minimal technical resources to deploy, train, and maintain, leading to a low total cost of ownership, and a rapid return on investment. Our wizard-driven application fast tracks the solution setup; the web interface for end users means you can deploy rapidly with no software installation; packaged analytics provide meaningful content from day 1; and usability removes the complexities, time and resources required to create custom analytics and ensure user adoption. The solution is built using 100% Microsoft technology, which minimizes any need for specialist technical resources.