Your next generation BI application

Simplicity in reporting and analytics for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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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.*

48%

*InformationWeek 2015 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey, October 2014, North America

Deliver BI Success with Exceed Analytics

Sample dashboards delivered with Exceed Analytics

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.

Exceed Analytics is a next generation BI application for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, 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.

Exceed Analytics is different –

it’s built for simplicity and 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 organizational data. Almost 50% of these decision makers are failing, recognizing their biggest challenge to be software complexity.

CFO Dashboard

Sales Manager Dashboard

Near real-time BI = AGILITY

Pre-built dashboards and KPIs = SIMPLICITY

Speed and Value Equals Success 25 Dashboards and 100 Best Practice KPIs Innovative, Next Gen Architecture

Exceed Analytics takes the complexity out of Dynamics NAV 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 set-ups, long learning curves and high upfront investments. We translate complexity (5000 Dynamics NAV Tables) into simplicity (25 Dashboards) to deliver immediate outcomes with over 100 Best Practice KPI’s.

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 center.

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.

Advanced analytics = INTELLIGENT ACTION

All your data = ANY SIZE, ANY TYPE

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.

100% Microsoft Technology Architecture supporting customers from 5GB to 500TB

Automate and predict your business processes

Delivers today, built for tomorrow = FUTURE PROOF

Handle data of any size and any type with Exceed Analytics, without the limitations that other third-party Dynamics NAV BI tools face. Rapid access is available to all your data (including business data and non-relational 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.

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.

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)10

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%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.

** Let us show you what Exceed Analytics can deliver, out-of-the-box.

Exceed Analytics is a modern, next generation solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 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.

BI & ANALYTICS PRESENTATION

Data Consolidation Layer: Analytical reporting data-base

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 NAV

instances and different Dynamics NAV versions using a pre-built data-smart structure for Dynamics NAV.

� 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 NAV data using integrated Dynamics NAV security.

� Highly scalable with no impact on end user query times. Unlike many existing BI solutions for Dynamics NAV, 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.

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 pre-built reports and dashboards for Dynamics NAV - all available across any device.Exceed Analytics offers over 250 pieces of BI content for Dynamics NAV.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.

Data Extract Layer: Dynamics NAV data entities

Exceed Analytics data extraction layer utilises the latest Dynamics NAV DIXF features. The pre-built Dynamics NAV data entities are specifically designed to export your Dynamics NAV 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 NAV. 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 NAV version.

� Manage all Dynamics NAV 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.

Business Logic Layer: PowerBI analytical model

Exceed Analytics’ pre-built PowerBI model for Dynamics NAV 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:

Solution Layers

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3 INDUSTRY ANALYTICAL MODELS

2 AZURE SQL OR SQL SERVER DATABASE

1 DATA SOURCES

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POWER BIMODELS

Dynamics NAV Industry Content Packs

Finance Sales Inventory Retail

DashboardReports, KPIs

TimeIntelligence

Procurement

Industry Self Service Collaboration Mobile Predictive

SSIS Export Data Entity Export Data Entity Export

Dynamics NAV 4.0/5.0 Dynamics NAV 2009 Dynamics NAV 2013/15/16

Other LOB Data Non-relational Data

OtherERP

CRM LOB Devices Web Sensors SocialEXCELFiles

Near Real-time

NAVSecurity

Enteprise Scale

Azure SQL AnalyticalDatabase

ConsolidatedNAV Reporting

Integrate legacy and other data

NAV 4.0/5.0Staging Non-relationalOther LOB dataNAV 2013/15/16

StagingNAV 2009 Staging

Manufacturng

SQL

� In-built time intelligence (MTD, QTD, YTD, Rolling 12 months and many more)

� Industry models to cover all major Dynamics NAV modules: � General Ledger � AR and AP � Sales � Inventory � Procurement � Retail � Manufacturing

� Pre-defined 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

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There are 4 solution layers within Exceed Analytics:

Make the most of your Microsoft Dynamics NAV data and experience the simplicity and success of Exceed Analytics today.

Exceed Analytics is a next generation BI application for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, 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.

Start using Exceed Analytics Today!

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