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Data Warehouse and Power BI
Data Warehouse and Power BI
Samer Baskhayroun
Samer Baskhayroun
Microsoft Dynamics NAV/BC Consultant & Jet Report /Jet Data Manager Developer
Published Oct 19, 2023
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Jet Analytics
While Jet Reports is a front-end reporting tool allowing you to bring your data
into Excel easily, Jet Analytics is a back-end tool. It gives you a Data
Warehouse and seven OLAP Cubes out of the box, built on your NAV or BC
data. The data warehouse and OLAP cubes make reporting fast and can be
queried for analytics, reporting, and dashboards. For example, you can use
your Data Warehouse tables and OLAP cubes as data sources in Power BI to
quickly make visualizations and dashboards. Also, Jet Reports is included with
Jet Analytics at no extra cost. Jet Reports can query the data warehouses and
OLAP cubes, in addition to a direct connection to your NAV/BC data, for fast
reporting. Further, the OLAP cubes can be used to quickly make pivot table
reports in Excel in just a few clicks.
OLAP cubes (OLAP is short for Online Analytical Processing) are used to
aggregate data (called measures, for example, the total number of sales) by
multiple dimensions (such as color, year, location, size, salesperson, etc.). For
example, in just a few clicks, OLAP cubes can be used to see the total number
of sales of an item by store location, color, size, and quarter.
Jet Analytics has over 200 pre-built templates for financial reports and
dashboards in Excel and Power BI formats.
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Power BI
There was a time when financial reporting in Dynamics NAV required time and
development resources. Once the data connections are made, non-technical
users can use Jet Reports and Jet Analytics to perform sophisticated reporting
and analytics.
Adding Power BI to your Jet Reports and Jet Analytics solutions lets users
provide clear visualizations of their data. Power BI can collect data from
multiple sources, like the Jet Analytics data warehouse and OLAP cubes, in
addition to a number of other data sources (CRM, websites, etc.). Power BI
also includes artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to help perform
sophisticated business intelligence analysis on the data collected. However,
because BC SaaS data is still not completely accessible by Power BI and the
many benefits of the Jet Report’s connector and the pre-built Data Warehouse
and Cubes that come with Jet Analytics, Jet Reports, and Jet Analytics perfectly
complement Power BI’s capabilities.