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The Top 12 Business Intelligence Applications for the Microsoft Dynamics Channel.

 

 
Business intelligence (BI) allows organisations through applications and practices to attain a better understanding of its commercial context. By evaluation of historical, present and future predictions of the organisation Business Intelligence allows for a company to analyse its data and make business predictions, it is essence the most valuable way a company can know where it is and where it wants to go.

To this end Microsoft has always enabled a modicum of BI skills to be harnessed through SQL Server and the development of OLAP and BPM, this was enhanced with the much vaunted planning tool within PerformancePoint Server. Unfortunately PPS has now been placed within Sharepoint in an attempt to make it cheaper and more available to the masses, which for basic BI information is a fantastic bonus but for those who crave a greater input from BI for their organisation, which applications can truly be said to be the replacement for PPS for those in the Dynamics Community.

With over 2000 applications to choose from we have put them to the test in the real world and have created a list of the top 12. This list is designed to offer those looking for BI solutions a chance to choose the best.

The many different organisations that require BI and what they want from BI make it impossible to give a definitive answer to who is the best BI supplier within Microsoft Dynamics, but we have been able to narrow it down to the best of the best.
 

 

Not every company needs to move through all the steps and not every solution provides for this.
 

Given the complexities of what is BI and what can it do for the myriad of organisations that need to use BI we have had to stick to a strict criteria as to who made the top 12 and this we understand may not be the way an organisation chooses its own BI Partner, however when looking for a replacement for PPS we asked the following questions.

How easy is it “pull” data?

How easy is it to perform what-if analyses?

Total installation price versus ROI

How does it deal with multi data sources?

How quickly can the first report be created?

How easy is it to share information in real time?

How easy is to empower different levels of decision maker?

How clean is the presentation with the usability layer?

How many users does it have?

How well does it work with Microsoft Dynamics?

The results that we found we startling and depending on your type of organisation and where in the BI Information stack you wish to be the results will be different, however the only 12 we recommend are in alphabetical order:

Calumo

Cubeware

Evidanza

iQ4Bis

Phocas

PrecisionPoint

Profitbase

Qlikview

Strategy Companion

Targit

TimeXtender

Zap

It is possible to purchase an independent assessment of your company’s needs and which BI product is best for your needs from DynamicsWorld through the email BIevaluation@dynamicsworld.co.uk

 
 

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