Simplicity in reporting and analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX. analytics. Your next generation BI application

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1 Simplicity in reporting and analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX analytics Your next generation BI application

2 48% Deliver BI Success with Exceed Analytics CFO Dashboard of BI and analytics decision makers and influencers say ease-of-use challenges with complex software or less technically savvy employees creates their biggest barrier to success.* Analytics, business intelligence and information management is a world of constant challenge as business and technology decision makers search for clarity and insight into their organisational data. Almost 50% of these decision makers are failing, recognising their biggest challenge to be software complexity. Exceed Analytics is different it s built for simplicity and success. Built on a highly scalable, near real-time analytical platform, Exceed Analytics delivers an agile architecture that delivers simplicity and success by packaging industry best practice metrics, in-built time intelligence and customisable dashboards so your business can break through the user adoption barrier. Sales Manager Dashboard *InformationWeek 2015 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey, October 2014, North America Exceed Analytics is a next generation BI application for Microsoft Dynamics AX, delivering powerful insights through pre-built reports and dashboards within a selfservice environment that helps you answer the right questions, at the right time. Sample dashboards delivered with Exceed Analytics

3 Rapid deployment = SUCCESS With better access to information, your IT Department is being asked to wrangle more and more data of all shapes and sizes. At the same time, you want a more agile BI approach for the business that will deliver results in weeks not years. Start in front with Exceed Analytics. Instead of investing more than $500,000 in development costs over a 9 to 12 month period, Exceed Analytics can be delivered in less than 4 weeks** with a range of pre-built Dashboards and KPIs. Pre-built dashboards and KPIs = SIMPLICITY Exceed Analytics takes the complexity out of Dynamics AX reporting. It empowers your users to rapidly build any report or dashboard they need to improve decision making across your business. Designed to break through the BI barriers, Exceed Analytics eliminates complex setups, long learning curves and high upfront investments. We translate complexity (5000 Dynamics AX Tables) into simplicity (25 Dashboards) to deliver immediate outcomes with over 100 Best Practice KPI s. Near real-time BI = AGILITY Most traditional BI approaches typically support overnight or at best twice daily updates. But today, you need up-to-date information at your finger tips so you can monitor what is happening inside your business be it your retail stores, manufacturing plant, warehouse or call centre. Offering low latency (less than 5 minutes) Exceed Analytics is a BI system that is totally different with near real-time information offering true agility for your business. ** Let us show you what Exceed Analytics can deliver, out-of-the-box. Speed and Value Equals Success 25 Dashboards and 100 Best Practice KPIs Innovative, Next Gen Architecture 1000% ROI for business intelligence projects* Nucleus Research found that for every dollar a company spends on analytics, it gets $10.66 back. Analytics Value Matrix (Nucleus Research l111 - Technology Value Matrix 2H2011 Analytics, October 2011) Delivers today, built for tomorrow = FUTURE PROOF Built on 100 percent Microsoft technology, including Power BI, Azure SQL and the Cortana Intelligence suite, Exceed Analytics provides your business with a future proof architecture. Business ready and fully aligned with your existing Microsoft business strategy, Exceed Analytics is the right balance between corporate data governance and self-service BI. All your data = ANY SIZE, ANY TYPE Automate and predict your business processes with machine intelligence to evolve from simple descriptive analytics to prescriptive recommendations with Exceed Analytics. Covering Retail, Supply Chain and Manufacturing scenarios, the Exceed Advanced Analytic models deliver measurable bottom line results and drive real business innovation. Advanced analytics = INTELLIGENT ACTION Handle data of any size and any type with Exceed Analytics, without the limitations that other third-party Dynamics AX BI tools face. Rapid access is available to all your data (including business data and nonrelational data) in near real-time without the need to build complex data cubes which are notoriously hard to manage and difficult for users to access. 100% Microsoft Technology Automate and predict your business Architecture supporting customers processes from 5GB to 500TB

4 4 There are 4 solution layers within Exceed Analytics: BI & ANALYTICS PRESENTATION Solution Layers Exceed Analytics is a modern, next generation solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX and all of your business data. Built on the Microsoft Cortana Intelligence suite, which includes Power BI, Azure SQL or SQL Server DB, Azure Data Lake and Azure Machine Learning. Exceed Analytics tightly integrates all of these components into a single BI & Analytics solution, so you don t need to worry about the technology platform, you can focus on the outcomes. Industry Self Service Collaboration Mobile Predictive BI & ANALYTICS PRESENTATION 3INDUSTRY ANALYTICAL MODELS 2AZURE SQL OR SQL SERVER DATABASE SQL POWER BI MODELS Azure SQL Analytical Database AX2009 Entity DB Dynamics AX Industry Content Packs Finance Sales Inventory Retail AX2012 Entity DB Consolidated AX Reporting AX7 Entity DB 1 DATA SOURCES SSIS Export Data Entity Export Data Entity Export Dynamics AX 2009 Dynamics AX 2012 Dynamics AX 7 Other LOB data Manufacturng Integrate legacy and other data Other ERP Other LOB Data CRM Procurement Non-relational LOB EXCEL Files Dashboard Reports, KPIs Time Intelligence Near Real-time AX Security Enteprise Scale Non-relational Data Devices Web Sensors Social Data Extract Layer: Dynamics AX data entities Exceed Analytics data extraction layer utilises the latest Dynamics AX DIXF features. The pre-built Dynamics AX data entities are specifically designed to export your Dynamics AX data rapidly and load automatically into the Analytical reporting database. Key benefits realised by the data entity export framework: Minimise disruptions when upgrading to new versions of Dynamics AX. The entity framework provides an important layer of abstraction from the underlying database structure and provides protection from any changes that may occur when upgrading your Dynamics AX version. Manage all Dynamics AX companies and financial dimensions within the data entity framework. Provide near real-time updates for business users by continuously loading the analytical reporting database with data exports scheduled to run every 5 minutes. Data Consolidation Layer: Analytical reporting database Exceed Analytics utilises Azure SQL DB to deliver an Analytical reporting database that provides a single, secure and highly scalable reporting database. Key benefits realised by the Analytical reporting database: Consolidate multiple Dynamics AX instances and different Dynamics AX versions using a pre-built datasmart structure for Dynamics AX. Integrate data from any data-source including your legacy ERP data and deliver a single view of data. Allow different groups of users direct access to specific Dynamics AX data using integrated Dynamics AX security. Highly scalable with no impact on end user query times. Unlike many existing BI solutions for Dynamics AX, Exceed Analytics utilises the latest in-memory database technology from Microsoft which provides a near real-time reporting and analysis environment on massive amounts of data with sub-second user response times. Business Logic Layer: PowerBI analytical model Exceed Analytics pre-built PowerBI model for Dynamics AX provides the business logic layer. This industry-focused business logic layer is the brains of the solution and holds all of the pre-built intelligence that has been captured and developed for your immediate use. The PowerBI models include: In-built time Pre-defined intelligence (MTD, QTD, YTD, Rolling 12 months and many more) Industry models to cover all major Dynamics AX modules: General Ledger AR and AP Sales Inventory Procurement Retail Manufacturing metrics and KPI s that hold specific industry business logic, for example: Delivery performance Order lead times Cash to cash cycle times Inventory valuation Days sales outstanding Slow moving stock BI Presentation Layer: PowerBI.com Exceed Analytics leverages PowerBI. com as the BI presentation layer for our solution. This offers a modern, self-service business analytic tool that makes it easy to analyse data, share insights and monitor your business with a rich set of prebuilt reports and dashboards for Dynamics AX - all available across any device. Exceed Analytics offers over 250 pieces of BI content for Dynamics AX. These dashboards, reports and KPI s are delivered in Industry specific PowerBI Content Packs that are immediately available for your business to start using straight away. If you have specific business requirements, the Content Packs can also be used as a platform for your users to modify and customise.

5 analytics Start using Exceed Analytics Today! Make the most of your Microsoft Dynamics AX data and experience the simplicity and success of Exceed Analytics today. Exceed Analytics is a next generation BI application for Microsoft Dynamics AX, delivering powerful insights through pre-built reports and dashboards within a self-service environment that helps you answer the right questions, at the right time. Australia info@uxceclipse.com New Zealand info@uxceclipse.com v2