BIRDS for Finance
The pressure on the finance department these days is vast. And the fun thing is, both the challenge and the solution has something to do with data.
Challenges
Everyone is demanding you to create reports on budgets, calculations on budgets vs actuals, cash flow analyses, and multi company consolidations plus year reports. The data you need to get to these reports is frequently everywhere in the company. Plus creating both high level reports with the ability to drill deep isn’t something that can be done by just the finance department only, IT is often needed as programming skills are required.
What takes you further?
What you need is a powerful yet simplified platform to connect all your data sources to, transform that data automatically with BI Content Packs into deep insights in Power BI. This give you both a jump start as you don’t have to grab all data sources manually and boost your productivity as you can drill down in the reports as deep as you need to uncover business improvements.
BIRDS as a medicine for your data headache
Perhaps you think ‘yeah, we already are using Power BI and yet the vision described above is far from our reality’. Or maybe you’re quite happy with Power BI but still you spend some time on setting up Power BI the way you want it.
That’s why you need Birds. Birds is an intelligent Data Platform that empowers you to extract data sources and seamlessly transform this into deep insights in Power BI. In other words, BIRDS is a Data Platform that feeds Power BI. As we focus on Microsoft Dynamics as main data source Birds comes along with some prefilled BI content packs, containing the Dynamics data structure, so you can enjoy the setup of performance reports in hours, not days.
Hundreds of companies worldwide are enjoying the incredible power of BIRDS. As experts we know exactly how we can get your world data driven. Do you want to learn more? Check out the reference stories, book a demo or find out how you can purchase BIRDS.
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Check the features of the BIRDS data platform for Power BI
Data Platform
BIRDS boost reporting with Datawarehouse Automation and speeds up the present and future with BI Content Packs, Power ON, and Advanced Analytics.
More on Data PlatformFull ETL support
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) is the procedure of copying data from one or more sources into a warehouse which represents the data differently from the sources or in a different context than the sources.
More on ETL processBI Content Packs
We combine different datasets throughout the different Dynamics 365 entities (even customizations) and pack that into BI Content Packs that we deliver with the installation of BIRDS.
More on BI Content PacksData warehouse automation
A low-code, super powerful analysis repository that’s build for scale and for extracting different data sources so you can work quickly and efficiently with the Power BI front end.
More on Data warehouse automationPerformance dashboards
On a dashboard you see how the organization performs on the indicators you selected, you can spot trends and progress in projects and other complex, multi-disciplined areas.
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Data storytelling is the practice of building a narrative around a set of data and its accompanying visualizations to help convey the meaning of that data in a powerful and compelling way.
More on visualisationPower ON
Simply add comments, make predictions or change assumptions in Power BI and Power ON recalculates the whole column based on the new budget, even with seasonal influence and more.
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