Deep Insights into Business Processes
As a business analyst, you face the challenge of continuously providing stakeholders with accurate advice based on complete and precise data, reports, and KPIs. BIRDS and Power BI offer the tools to help you excel in this.
Advantages for the Business Analyst
With the advantages provided by BIRDS, you have the resources for in-depth analysis and data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.
Complete view
Don’t just rely on Microsoft Dynamics data—combine it with data from other software in your reports to get a complete picture.
One data source
With our data model, your entire organization uses the same data, definitions, and calculations. This prevents debates over issues like product margins.
Simplicity
The complex data structure of Microsoft Dynamics is transformed into facts and dimensions and translated to simple data labels in Power BI. This enables you to create comprehensive reports without any technical knowledge.
Historical insights
Processes in Dynamics get overwritten, such as the journey from prospect to customer.
BIRDS takes a daily snapshot of the data, giving you insight into how a process has evolved over time.
Productivity
With a complete overview of all your data, and the ability to create detailed reports yourself, you can identify potential bottlenecks within your organization, optimize various business processes, and enhance productivity.
Leveraging AI
BI enables AI, and this begins with high-quality data.
With BIRDS, you have access to structured and modeled data, which can be used to feed an AI model, allowing you to increase productivity and make accurate predictions about future developments.
How data empowers decision-making at Tony's Chocolonely with BIRDS and Power BI
Sophie van de Putte, Lead Business Planning & Performance, explains how Tony's Chocolonely uses BIRDS, where their data challenges lie, and how they leverage data across various organizational levels to gain insights into processes, production, supply chain, and sales.
FAQ
BIRDS offers extensive D365 connectors, making all relevant data available in facts and dimensions for use in Power BI reports.
If you have technical expertise and have completed the BIRDS training, you can independently access data in Power BI following the BIRDS methodology.
During the implementation of BIRDS and Power BI, you can work with our BI consultants to establish KPI calculations within the data model. These KPIs will then be integrated into the Power BI dashboards.
After completing a BIRDS training, you can also independently create calculations and define new KPIs within the data model.
Yes, while we specialize in Dynamics and offer different connectors and rich content packs for it, our consultants can also extract data from other business software for use in Power BI.
This allows you to integrate various data sources with Dynamics 365 data in Power BI reports, giving you a more comprehensive view of your operations.
Looking to discuss your situation?
Schedule an online session with BI advisor Joep Lugtenberg and discover how BIRDS can help you analyze Dynamics 365 data and optimize your business processes.
