If there’s one thing we hear over and over, it’s, “I need better visibility into my business.” Microsoft Dynamics provides a wealth of business data – but it needs to be made visible and accessible so you can uncover its true value.

Many Dynamics customers receive a few static reports each month, and struggle because this only tells them a tiny piece of the story. Reports only tell you WHAT happened, and it’s time consuming to review them. You need to be able to instantly 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 gives you these capabilities:

See how any part of your business is performing

How effective are you at setting performance goals and monitoring them continually? If you don’t set benchmarks and strive for improvement, it’s very difficult to improve. Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) scorecards, and dashboards, you can set goals and make them visible across the organization. Displaying your data visually means you get an instant visual snapshot of performance and can spot problem areas immediately. When performance doesn’t meet expectations, you can drill down to uncover the cause of the problem.

A customer service manager might want to view performance metrics for a single customer. A sales manager might want to review the entire sales process across the company. An operations manager might want a single snapshot of every department. And a CEO might want to view performance across numerous businesses, even those that use non-Dynamics business systems. Zap Business Intelligence for Microsoft Dynamics handles it all, and of course you can secure your data so that employees only see appropriate data.

Remove conflicting versions of data

Has there ever been confusion because employees have conflicting versions of data? The sales manager and the finance manager disagree on what the latest sales figures are? Employees keep their own “spreadsheet silos” that quickly get out of date and contain mistakes? 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.

Instant alerts when performance changes

     
  “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
NAV customer

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We’re all time poor. It’s just natural that some days (or weeks or months) we won’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? You want to know the minute a supplier fails to meet performance targets? You want to know which sales staff met their quotas for the month? Set up customized alerts to tell you exactly what you need to know to be on top of your job. And include a detailed report that immediately gives you in-depth information on the reasons behind performance. Armed with the right information, you’ll be much more proactive and effective.

Insight into where you need to focus and improve

When data is hard to access, people often become too tactical. If your finance team is spending all their time manually preparing end-of-month reports, cross-ledger analysis and consolidated views, they probably have no time to add some 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 can empower entire teams to ask questions and become more strategic.