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From Data Hell to Bliss:Getting the Most Out of Your Acumatica Data
Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.
- IBM
Data is like Water
Reports are like Living Organisms
Five Data Reporting Tools in Acumatica
1. Analytical Report Manager (ARM)
2. Report Designer (RD)
3. Generic Inquiry (GI)
4. Dashboards
5. OData (Tableau, Power BI, Excel, etc.)
1. Analytical Report Manager (ARM)
Financial Reporting (General Ledger & Project Ledger) Uses Row, Column, and Unit sets (very similar to FRx) Ranges, Wildcards, Etc. - 400000:420000,425000,43???? Auto Expansion of Accounts Rolling (3 months, 6 months, 12 months, etc.) Comparative (Budget vs. Actual, % Variance, Current
Year vs. Prior Year, etc.)
2. Report Designer (RD)
Designed for printing or attaching to email (WYSIWYG) Very similar to Crystal Reports or SSRS Drill-through via Grouping, Subreports, and Hyperlinks Reference Data Images Schedule Automatic Report Delivery Ability to create Complex Formulas
3. Generic Inquiry (GI)
Quick to Create (No Formatting Needed) Interactive
User can select which columns and the order they want them in Sorting/Filtering Pre-defined Filters (Global and User-Speciflc)
Export to Excel Foundation for Dashboards and OData
Application Objects(not SQL Objects)
Similar to SQL Views Pickup application security Easy to find Includes custom Objects
Data Access Classes (DAC)
4. Dashboards
Built on top of Generic Inquiries and Wiki Articles Only takes a few clicks through a wizard to choose and
configure your dashboard objects Ability to Drill Back into Generic Inquiry
5. OData (Tableau, Power BI, Excel, etc.)
A RESTful API running over the HTTPS protocol(same as Acumatica application and online banking)
A Simple and Secure way to query your Acumatica data, whether On-Prem, Hosted, SaaS, etc.
No SQL access needed, No additional software to install, No Firewalls to punch through, No VPN access needed
Picks up Acumatica security, even row security
Printed Reports vs. Digital Reports
Past
Printed
Digital
Future
Digital
Printed
Power BI
Began in 2006 as secret project by Microsoft SSAS Team Sophisticated ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tabular Model vs. Multidimensional Model DAX vs. MDX (80% of the benefit, 20% of the complexity),
more like Excel formulas than a programming language Free Excel plug-in delivers the entire in-memory engine PowerBI.com delivers killer crowdsourced visualizations
Begin Power BI Demo
End Power BI Demo
OData
BI360
BizNet
MITS
Power BI
Renovofyi
Tableau
ZAP
OData Opens Data Doors
www.TimRodman.comThank You
Let’s Make Some Noise#AcumaticaSummit
Getting Connected
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Wireless Password:acumatica16 (case sensitive)
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