Business Intelligence and reporting
Although Microsoft marketing materials identify Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting as though it were a separate module within NAV, it's difficult to physically identify it as such. Most of the components used for BI and reporting purposes are appropriately scattered throughout various application areas. In the words of one Microsoft document, "Business Intelligence is a strategy, not a product." Functions within NAV that support a BI strategy include the following:
- Standard Reports: These are distributed ready-to-use by end users
- Account schedules and analysis reports: These are a specialized report writer for General Ledger data
- Query, XMLport, and Report Designers: These are developer tools to support the creation of a wide variety of report formats, charts, XML, and CSV files
- Analysis by dimensions: This is a capability embedded in many of the other tools
- Interfaces into Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office 365 including...
