The familiar reporting dilemma
Struggling to gain insights from the built-in reporting tools?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) is built for efficient transaction processing. But when it comes to real analysis, the standard reporting tools fall short.
You get basic reports or raw Excel exports—but no real insight into your business processes.
Microsoft’s best analytics tool
Power BI: the right solution for your reporting needs?
Microsoft Power BI is the go-to tool for analyzing data from Finance & Operations and gaining valuable insights.
However, Power BI isn’t plug and play. Data from Dynamics isn’t instantly available with clear labels, ready for non-technical users to build comprehensive reports.
You’ll either need to develop the data journey from F&O to Power BI yourself—or choose a standardized solution.
What fits your organization?
Develop custom solutions in-house or choose a standardized approach?
For some organizations, building a custom data architecture can be a viable option.
But in practice, few companies have large, experienced data teams capable of developing, maintaining, and continuously improving such a setup.
Even then, you're often facing long development cycles—sometimes months—before having access to just a few reports, and often without a robust data model.
If you want to avoid that situation, Birds BI is a proven alternative.
At this stage, you already have complete reports with Birds BI. Without Birds BI, you would still be connecting data sources and building data extraction pipelines.
Standardized, proven, and reliable
Birds BI: The quickstart Power BI solution for Microsoft Dynamics F&O
Birds BI offers a standardized architecture that makes your Finance & Operations data instantly available in Power BI.
This enables you to build comprehensive reports—without technical expertise—across various business domains like finance, sales, inventory, production, and more.
And it goes beyond simple one-dimensional reports. With our data model, you can combine data from all these processes into a single report, allowing you to effortlessly analyze across business functions.
Trusted by leading organizations
Companies across various industries use Birds BI every day to make decisions based on complete and reliable data.
Birds BI in action
Watch an on-demand webinar
Want to see our solution in action? Watch a recording of our popular Birds BI webinar—whenever it suits you.
In a real Power BI environment, we’ll show you exactly how our solution works and highlight the specific reporting capabilities it offers.
Customer stories
Kickstarting BI projects at Trust International
The Birds BI data platform jumpstarts Trust International's BI projects, offering insights into various markets. To succeed in specific countries and markets, Trust needs quick and thorough daily updates to adapt swiftly when necessary.
A clear comparison
Birds BI vs. Finance & Operations reporting
To clearly highlight the differences in reporting capabilities between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and Birds BI, we’ve created this comparison table.
| Finance & Operations | Birds BI | |
|---|---|---|
| Reports for Purchasing | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Inventory | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Accounts Receivable | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Accounts Payable | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Finance | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Production | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Projects | ✔* | ✔ |
| Reports for Fixed Assets | ✔* | ✔ |
| Data from multiple business processes in a single report | — | ✔ |
| Support for multiple F&O environments | — | ✔ |
| Historical data from legacy AX/on-premise environments | — | ✔ |
| Combing data from multiple source systems | — | ✔ |
| Multi-currency support | — | ✔ |
| Multi-company support | — | ✔ |
* Reports without cross-process analysis or drill-down capabilities.
FAQ
No, Birds BI works alongside Power BI. In simple terms, our solution extracts and organizes data from Microsoft Dynamics ERP or CRM systems and, when needed, integrates it with data from your industry-specific software.
This structured data is then made available in Power BI, complemented by our ready-to-use dashboards and a comprehensive data model. This enables you to create customized dashboards and reports that fit your specific needs.
Yes, while we specialize in Dynamics and offer out-of-the-box connectors for it, our consultants can also extract data from other business software for use in Power BI.
This allows you to combine data from multiple sources with Dynamics ERP data to gain a complete picture.
If your organization already has a Power BI license, we can implement Birds BI within a few days. After that, you'll have access to approximately 85% of your Microsoft Dynamics data in Power BI and can take advantage of our out-of-the-box dashboards.
Next, we assess each department's specific needs and incorporate the remaining 15% into our data model, so you can also use those specific datasets in your reporting.
Yes, our solution can also function within Microsoft Fabric with a complete end-to-end architecture.
Within Fabric, Birds BI provides a robust framework for accessing, processing, enriching, and structuring data for use in Power BI reports.
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