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Dashboard Navigation and Overview
Interactive Dashboard Navigation Menus to Simplify Financial Analysis
How can Dashboard Navigation Menus Help Drive Faster and Better Decisions? As CFOs increasingly rely on dashboards to empower users in the Financial Analysis Process, they must rely on modern self-service xFP&A and business intelligence (BI) tools. Using Interactive Dashboard Navigation Menus like the Interactive Menu template shown below enables them and users from the leadership team to experience near real time financial analysis that help drive faster and better decisions.
Who uses Interactive Menus and What are Some Key Analytical Features? In today’s fast-paced business environment, CFOs are under high pressure to supply end users like board members and executives with timely and concise graphical analysis of trends, exceptions and variances. Companies use key features like the ones below to support their users with effective navigation across numerous dashboards that helps drive faster and better decisions:
Data Integration to Transaction Systems Most organizations these days want automated and streamlined planning, reporting and analysis. However, many of the benefits described earlier rely on best of breed extended financial planning and analysis (xFP&A) tools and/or Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities as well as data marts or data warehouses that use pre-built integrations to the organization’s ERP system. Oftentimes, they also need integrations to other key data sources like CRM, subscription systems, payroll tools, etc. Modern, cloud-based ERPs like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance (D365 Finance), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Sage Intacct, Acumatica, Netsuite and SAP have robust APIs which allow for dynamic integrations to xFP&A and BI tools that are fully automated and flexible to run on a schedule or on-demand.
Who uses Interactive Menus and What are Some Key Analytical Features? In today’s fast-paced business environment, CFOs are under high pressure to supply end users like board members and executives with timely and concise graphical analysis of trends, exceptions and variances. Companies use key features like the ones below to support their users with effective navigation across numerous dashboards that helps drive faster and better decisions:
- Quick and easy access to the right dashboard for specific financial metrics
- Reduce chances that end users get "lost" while looking for the dashboard they need
- Motivate users to do more analysis in a shorter amount of time
Data Integration to Transaction Systems Most organizations these days want automated and streamlined planning, reporting and analysis. However, many of the benefits described earlier rely on best of breed extended financial planning and analysis (xFP&A) tools and/or Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities as well as data marts or data warehouses that use pre-built integrations to the organization’s ERP system. Oftentimes, they also need integrations to other key data sources like CRM, subscription systems, payroll tools, etc. Modern, cloud-based ERPs like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance (D365 Finance), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Sage Intacct, Acumatica, Netsuite and SAP have robust APIs which allow for dynamic integrations to xFP&A and BI tools that are fully automated and flexible to run on a schedule or on-demand.
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