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How to connect Business Central and Power BI

How to connect Business Central and Power BI

The gold standard of data visualization software, Power BI allows users to connect and upload their data from hundreds of sources, including the Dynamics 365 suite of applications. By combining Business Central with the visualization power of Power BI, businesses can gain even more insight and view a wider picture of the health of their organization.

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Using data analytics for fraud prevention

Using data analytics for fraud prevention

With the continuous advancements of technology, it has become critical that organizations utilize technology to maintain a competitive edge for managing risks and understand the usage of analytics tools to support fraud detection and prevention efforts.

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Dashboards and analytics for Microsoft ERPs — Jet Analytics, Power BI, or both?

Dashboards and analytics for Microsoft ERPs — Jet Analytics, Power BI, or both?

As data volumes continue to increase, more and more businesses are graduating from reporting to analytics. Reporting gives businesses and their leaders the ability to answer the question of “what happened.” Analytics instead gives them the ability to explore “why did something happen.” When we think of analytics and dashboards in the Microsoft ERP space, the two most common names you’ll see are Jet Analytics and Power BI. We will explore each in a bit more detail.

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Technology solutions to help your company through a bear market

Technology solutions to help your company through a bear market

With every market high comes the inevitable fall, where oil markets see the price per barrel plummet or banks decide they are too big to fail. Here at Rand Group, we have been hard at work to ensure our clients are equipped to succeed in the face of an extended bear market. We will discuss some ways Rand Group is preparing to support your company during uncertain times.

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2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics: Transformative

2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics: Transformative

Gartner just released the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, and we were pleased to see that Microsoft was in the leader quadrant with only 2 other players. Microsoft has released an amazing array of BI technologies in the last few years: Data integration is completely transformed (pun intended) – the days of scheduling fragile, long running packages have been replaced by cloud-based services that can integrate an impressive range of data sources across on-prem, device, mobile and cloud—using intelligent scheduling (e.g., chaining events), performance scaling, routing and recovery—RIP SSIS. Strong Cloud-based data warehousing options are now available for both structured and unstructured “big” data—no more watching blinking lights.

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