Power BI with Jet Analytics for D365 Business Central

Why Power BI is best for Dynamics 365 ERP and CRM

Fuel Your Power BI with Jet Analytics – the perfect partnership for Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP Reporting.

Following on from the recent announcement from Insight Software on the end of Support for Jet Dashboard Builder (in 2023) – this blog highlights the start of something new & exciting! with Power BI & Jet Analytics – the perfect partnership for your Dynamics 365 Business Central BI reporting.

What is the migration path for Jet Dashboard Builder customers?

It is recommended those customers who currently use Jet Dashboard Builder instead use Microsoft Power BI as their front-end visualisation and dashboarding tool, and benefit from the power of Jet Reports as their reporting and data preparation solution!

Power BI with Jet Analytics for D365 Business Central

Benefits of Power BI with Jet Analytics:

Business intelligence empowers organisations to get the most out of their data. In the Microsoft Dynamics 365 eco-system, Power BI generates easy-to-read visualisations that help businesses perform key analysis. But finance professionals can encounter roadblocks when seeking deeper analysis than their technical knowledge of Power BI permits.

That’s why Jet Analytics is a perfect companion to BI tools, especially Power BI. Their combined utility makes it easy to create and maintain a complete data warehouse solution with very little effort. Gone are the days of relying on your overtaxed IT department for reports that fuel your business. Jet Analytics acts as the perfect conduit between your ERP data and Power BI including many benefits, such as:

Enabling you to build self-serve custom dashboards
Providing accurate, governed datathrough a single source of truth
Rapid time to valuethrough turnkey installation within hours

Jet Analytics is the perfect partner for your Power BI experience by making it easy to take operational data and process it into vital dashboards.

Complementing Your Business Intelligence:

Connecting Power BI to real-time Dynamics 365 BC data in Jet Reports allows you far greater control of the analysis and ability to account for last-minute adjustments. Jet Reports allows finance teams to work with the familiar interface of Excel. Refresh your Power BI visualisations in minutes and be confident in their accuracy.

Providing purpose-built financial and operational reporting inside Microsoft Excel
Leveraging real-time data so that your reports immediately update
Enabling you to build self-serve custom reports
Not requiring knowledge of SQL or proprietary DAX programming knowledge

An Ideal Match for Your Analytics:

Where Jet Reports addresses reporting gaps, Jet Analytics brings all your data together in Power BI, allowing you to analyse trends and forecast scenarios through a channel your executives can easily understand. Jet Analytics provides data warehouse automation for fast, consistent business analytics and master data management. A plug-and-play solution, Jet Analytics works seamlessly with Business Central and NAV, whether you’re on prem or on the cloud.

To simplify processes, Jet Analytics has pre-built projects and a suite of both Excel and Power BI-based reports to get organizations up and running quickly. It works by taking details from the raw database and organizing it by subject in its built-in data warehouse.

You can even merge data from multiple sources, including Power BI and Jet Reports, to build data models. Jet Analytics gives you the freedom to rapidly deploy Power BI and eliminate any need to understand the underlying data structure, saving you hours of training. Other benefits include:

Providing accurate, governed data through a single source of truth
Rapid time to value through turnkey installation within hours
Providing pre-built OLAP cubes, a data warehouse, and visualized dashboards
Low total cost of ownership
A drag-and-drop customization platform

Jet Reports and Jet Analytics are the perfect partners for your Power BI experience. They provide easy-to-generate, real-time reports that don’t require expert level programming knowledge. In addition, they make it easy to take multi-dimensional data and process it into vital reports like balance sheets, P&L, and cash flow statements.

Watch this brief video to see Power BI with Jet Analytics for D365 Business Central in action and learn how to set up Jet Analytics to get started with Power BI Dynamics 365 Business Central in 15 minutes @ Watch Video