It’s no secret that companies that listen to their customers have a greater chance at success. That is why we value our customers’ voice at insightsoftware. You use our products every day to run your organization, make critical decisions, achieve your business goals, and bring success to your own stakeholders. This approach provides you with a unique perspective on how our offerings can be enhanced with new features and tools that help you and your end users work better.

Stories are the crux of effective communication. According to a Stanford University study, nearly two-thirds of people remember a story that’s part of a presentation. The study also found that speakers who merely present facts and figures only achieve a 5% recall rate among their audience. When your customers deliver analytics and reporting, the data visualization experience should be a memorable one.

Great data visualizations have the power to persuade decision makers to take immediate, appropriate action. When done well, data visualizations help users intuitively grasp data at a glance and provide more meaningful views of information in context. Good data visuals give busy workers a high-level summary of important data. They also offer a big-picture perspective and highlight trends, anomalies, and outliers while giving users the option to drill down into details and ask new questions when needed.

The results are in–for the third year in a row, insightsoftware has partnered with Hanover Research to deliver our yearly Finance Team Trends Report. Comparing results across the years shows an incredible journey for finance teams across the globe. The survey included 519 senior accounting and finance professionals across North America and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). 52% are located in North America while 48% are in EMEA.

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.

New insightsoftware Platform connects financial analytics, reporting, and performance management solutions to share data across applications, solve business problems faster, and do more with less.