Connect Dynamics 365 F&O and Power BI

Power BI will boost the amount of insights and smart business decision making. Connecting Dynamics 365 F&O to Power BI is easy, however a full implementation, and more important user adoption, is often a challenge.



Challenge

It’s not only your Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations data that’s needed for the insights that you need as you want insights cross-team and cross-functional. The data you need is scattered all around the company. In order to build both a high level overview and the possibility for you to drill deep on and combine performance metrics is a real challenge. Or you need frequently someone from IT to for each new data source to connect to your BI tool or to build a report is so time consuming that you stick to the old-school Excel spreadsheets and thus postpone the data drive approach and don’t have a central source of truth.

Looking in the mirror, what do you see? Do you think you can do better in being data driven? Let us introduce you to BIRDS for Dynamics 365 F&O. 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 scans your Dynamics 365 F&O environment and matches this with prefilled BI content packs, containing the Dynamics ERP data structure, and we push that to Power BI. The result is that you’ve instant insights available on multiple performance indicators within your company in hours, not days.

Standard or custom? We don’t care

Maybe your Dynamics 365 F&O implementor build some customization inDynamics 365 F&O or you use a modified Finance and Operations edition with industry specific add-on’s. The great thing about BIRDS is that we not only know the standard Finance and Operations edition inside out, but are also capable of using all customizations, out of the box as we are so tight connected in the whole Dynamics ecosystem.

Do you prefer to speak to an expert? Book a free 30 min BIRDS session with Joep


Joep Lugtenberg
Sales Manager

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