Financial dashboards bring performance into focus by collecting the most important metrics and indicators in one location. But when organizations build their financial dashboards from the ground up, challenges often arise. A primary hurdle is making the right design choices to create dashboards that drive successful business decisions. To overcome this hurdle, it helps to incorporate ideas that have already been implemented, evaluated, and improved on by others.

Over the past few years, software vendors moved their applications to the cloud. Microsoft committed heavily to the cloud across all its product lines, including the Dynamics family of ERP and CRM solutions. That will mean an eventual migration to the cloud for customers of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and the legacy Microsoft GP, SL, and NAV products.

BI and analytics are both umbrella terms referring to a type of data insight software. Many providers use them interchangeably, but some use them in conjunction, claiming to offer both business intelligence and business analytics. This of course makes us wonder: what’s the difference?

AI Chatbots are being talked about everywhere. Product managers rely heavily on collaborations with stakeholders to achieve success with their strategic objectives. These stakeholders include developers, sales teams, marketing teams, executives, and other key players. Yet these stakeholders alone do not guarantee success for your customers and clients. As a product manager, you need to use all the tools at your disposal to add value to their strategies and goals.

Self-service analytics has been a leading priority in the business intelligence (BI) space for years and is likely here to stay. With data-driven culture on the rise, analytics is no longer just for IT teams and data scientists. Self-service business intelligence tools make it possible for personnel across functions to perform analytics-related tasks themselves, dramatically reducing time to insight.