Empowering Dynamics 365 Business Central with Advanced Budgeting, Reporting and Consolidations
Business Intelligence, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft DynamicsThis article explores the popular Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud ERP system and how you can achieve advanced reporting and budgeting.
After Microsoft’s highly anticipated release of Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC) a few years…
How to get the Most out of Power BI
BI360, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Microsoft DynamicsThis article discusses how you can combine the strengths of leading business intelligence and corporate performance management solutions to create easy-to-use, business dashboards and operational reports.
It’s an industry-known fact…
How to Customize Budgeting Reports: Part 2
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Reporting, Business IntelligenceThis article concludes the "Customize Budgeting Reports" series.
Corporate Examples
KPI Exception Report
With this report, executives don’t have to log in to a BI solution to actively monitor their most important metrics. Instead,…
Trends in Cloud Computing and Data Security
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, ERP Partner Program (VAR), Microsoft Dynamics
According to a recent Forbes article, Cloud revenue in the second quarter of 2018 grew at amazing rates for Microsoft, IBM, and SAP. Companies are spending billions of dollars to move their core business applications to the Cloud. These…
What do the Chinese Zodiac and Chromosomes have to do with CECL?
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration
Chinese Zodiac - One of my favorite memories growing up as a child was going to a Chinese restaurant and reading about my Chinese Zodiac animal sign. My sign is the Rabbit, the fourth of all Zodiac animals. Simply based on what year I…
The Benefits of Budgeting with Budget Templates Part 1
BI360, BI360 Planning, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, GPUG, Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business OneThis article focuses on the importance of budgeting with a corporate performance management solution.
Budgeting is a topic that is not very popular in many organizations. It can be an extremely time-consuming project for many employees. This…
How to Build a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Solution
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, ERP Partner Program (VAR), Excel 2010, GPUG, Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article discusses corporate performance management (CPM) tools and examples of effective strategy, goals, planning, and analysis.
Let’s talk about strategy and goals. There are many reasons for communicating strategy…
Tips to Improve Your Organization’s Internal Processes with CPM Software
BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, ERP Partner Program (VAR), GPUG, Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article focuses on the importance of internal process improvements and KPIs.
How do you create a best-in-class process? And how do you implement it across the organization? These are some of the questions that may come to mind…
How to Align Your Business Strategy with Your Reporting, Planning and Analysis: Part 2
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will continue the discussion of improving these tasks and processes and ensuring that the strategy is aligned with the reporting, planning, and analysis.
Planning consists of creating both an annual budget and forecasts.…
How to Align Your Business Strategy with Your Reporting, Planning and Analysis: Part 1
BI360 Planning, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will concentrate on improving these tasks and processes and ensuring that the strategy is aligned with the reporting, planning, and analysis.
Every company has many tasks and processes, but a key question to ask the team is whether…
Guide to Finding the Best CPM Solution for Your Company
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)Reporting in the Future: Financial and Operational Reporting, Dashboards, and Analysis
BI360, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Excel 2010, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will zoom in on what you need to know about reporting solutions and processes that will set you up for a successful future.
Just like strategy and goals at most companies are often quite disconnected from the budgeting process,…
Planning in the Future: Budgeting, Forecasting, and Modeling
BI360, BI360 Planning, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will explore and discuss what planning should and will look like in the future, zooming in on what you need to know about finding the right solution for your organization.
Last week, I wrote generally about Corporate Performance…
Corporate Performance Management in the Future: How to Upgrade Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboards, and Data Warehouse Processes
BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)The purpose of this blog entry is to help you shape a vision for the optimal decision-making platform that your company should plan for today to be ready for the future.
Sure, corporate performance management (CPM) vendors will keep innovating…
Top 5 Reporting Problems Faced by a CEO and Their Technology Solutions, Part 3
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article concludes the discussion of the top five problems facing CEOs today in regard to corporate performance management, with a focus on reporting.
In interviewing a very successful CEO and founder of a large company, he expressed…
Top 5 Reporting Problems Faced by a CEO and Their Technology Solutions, Part 2
BI360, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article continues the discussion of the top five problems facing CEOs today in regard to corporate performance management, with a focus on reporting.
In interviewing a very successful CEO and founder of a large company, he expressed the…
Top 5 Reporting Problems Faced by a CEO and Their Technology Solutions, Part 1
BI360, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article discusses the top five problems facing CEOs today in regard to corporate performance management, zooming in on reporting.
In interviewing a very successful CEO and founder of a large company, it was revealed that he had tried…
Corporate Performance Management in 2018: Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboards & Data Warehousing
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, Fun, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article launches the yearlong focus of this blog on leveraging the right corporate performance management (CPM) tools to manage and analyze data.
The purpose of the blog this year is to provide executives, leadership teams, and those charged…
#ThisIsSolver: Recapping 2017 and Looking Ahead to 2018
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, FunThis blog entry will discuss the achievements Solver is most proud of in 2017 – and what to look forward to from the team in 2018.
Last week, Solver hosted its annual white elephant gift exchange and holiday party. Lots of laughter, plenty…
Enabling World-class Decisions in 2018 with Innovative Corporate Performance Management Technology
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, FunThis article will discuss what’s at stake in terms of how you leverage diverse company data types to enable optimized decision-making in 2018.
There is a lot going on right now: politically, culturally, and economically. There always seems…
The Power of Modern, Self-Service Ad Hoc Reporting
BI360, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Excel 2010, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will discuss the benefits of today’s self-service ad-hoc reporting solutions for quick, powerful reports for all business end users.
In today’s business world, it feels like we’re always racing to keep up with our immediate…
What to be Thankful For in this Cloud Era of Enterprise and CPM Technology
BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will explore the things we should be thankful for with cloud being the platform of choice for technologies in the workplace.
Let me begin by stating what most of already know: the future is cloud, and it has arrived. IBM defines…
Cloud Budgeting for Microsoft Dynamics GP
BI360 Planning, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, GPUG, InfoManager (BI360 budgeting module), Microsoft Dynamics, Solver Operational Data Store (BI360 Data Warehouse module)This article will zoom in on your options for modern, robust budgeting in the cloud for Microsoft Dynamics GP.
As Microsoft secures its spot in the global race to be cloud technology leaders, on-premise Dynamics GP users are navigating their…
What’s Next for SAP Business One: Recapping the Biz.ONE Conference
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, Excel 2010, SAP Business OneThis entry will recap the Biz.ONE User Group Conference, held in Garden Grove October 23-25, 2017 – and what’s on the horizon for SAP Business One.
I had the pleasure of attending the Biz.ONE conference, hosted by the Americas’ SAP Users’…
Using Corporate Performance Management for Digital Transformation: Optimizing Operations and Transforming Products and Services, Part 2
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, ERP Partner Program (VAR)The blog article is the second entry in the series about using Corporate Performance Management (CPM) for digital transformation.
As long as you’re around technology, you will experience digital transformation. As defined in Part 1 of Using…
Coming Back from Microsoft Dynamics User Group Summit 2017: Fixin’ to Hit the Trail Running
BI360, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, ERP Partner Program (VAR), Excel 2010, Fun, GPUG, Microsoft DynamicsThis article recaps the countrifried Microsoft Dynamics User Groups Summit in Nashville October 10-13, 2017.
Well, if you wandered down the road to Music City this past week, you weren’t just hearing guitars, banjos, fiddles, and the trills…
How Coaching Soccer Applies to Work
BI360, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, FunFor those that know me, it has been well known that I despise soccer. I have never enjoyed watching it or playing it. When my son Evan first started playing sports, I told him he can only play soccer until he turns 7, and he promptly quit to…
#ThisisSolver – Innovation
BI360, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, FunThis article will discuss one of the winning ingredients for Solver as an organization and definitely one of the reasons BI360 is as successful as it is: innovation.
I have worked for Solver, Inc. almost exactly three and a half years, and regardless…
Using Corporate Performance Management for Digital Transformation: Engaging Customers and Empowering Employees, Part 1
Acumatica, BI360, BI360 Dashboards, BI360 Planning, BI360 Reporting, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Collaboration, GPUG, Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business OneThe blog article is the first part in using Corporate Performance Management (CPM) for digital transformation.
What is digital transformation? It sounds like most nebulous concept terms that mean something different to almost everyone. According…
