Keep score with business intelligence's dynamic duo
Microsoft Dynamics and Office Business Scorecard Manager combine to provide ongoing insight into key performance indicators
Published: 03 November 2005
Decision-making happens across all levels of an organisation, and empowering employees with powerful business intelligence (BI) solutions can help them have greater impact. Microsoft technologies are continually evolving to help small and medium-sized businesses, large organisations, and divisions of global enterprises gain BI faster and more efficiently.
Now, the combined capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager come together to provide a comprehensive way to help organisations gain deeper contextual insight into the business drivers that matter to their business, helping staff across organisations move forward with common purpose and direction.
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Track and Manage Performance Better with an 'Out of Box' Scorecard
No matter the size of the organisation, some issues remain unchanged. Executives find it difficult to match tactical activities and day-to-day operations to overarching corporate objectives. Managers find it tough to see the relationship between a widely diverse set of business processes and the key business drivers that affect the future performance of the organisation. Individuals wrestle with finding role-relevant information they can act on that will make a difference on the front lines. Everyone – from executives and managers to staff – awaits the day when they can finally access data that is meaningful to their specific roles and responsibility in a convenient, clear and consistent manner. Today, that wait is over.
With 'out-of-the-box', straight-forward methods to move key financial, CRM and supply chain data to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, Microsoft Dynamics customers can quickly take advantage of the rich key performance indicator (KPI) capabilities. With Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager, they can view company data in a comprehensive application that provides all employees with deep, contextual insight into important business drivers.
Zero-In on Key Business Indicators
Whether you're an accounting professional, a sales and marketing executive, or an important contributor on the shop floor, you each face the same challenge: to harness the relevant key business indicators that will help you do your part in moving your organisation forward.
Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager links directly to your Microsoft Dynamics application suite data, enabling you to make sense and gain valuable insight into your key business drivers. Being able to monitor key indicators in one convenient, consistent view can allow you to
| • | Gain insight into the current status and trends of key financial ratios that can help you optimise the financial performance of your business. |
| • | Evaluate the effectiveness and profitability of your sales channels. |
| • | Monitor and measure key operational performance metrics and see how adjustments improve efficiency and control costs. |
Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager offers important capabilities to define, capture, and display key performance indicators in a rich graphical dashboard display. Combined with dynamic drilldown support, Business Scorecard Manager can reveal important historical trends and gives your organisation the ability to analyse data out of key documents, spreadsheets and even websites. And it's all accomplished in a familiar environment because Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager uses and works with Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server to allow end users to easily build, manage and use KPIs and scorecards.
Analyse, Collaborate and Act Using Familiar Applications
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager is part of the Microsoft Office family of products, so it works like the Office applications you use across your organisation every day, taking advantage of the investments you have already made and the skills you already know. It extends the power of the Office platform, so that scorecards and visual strategy maps can be created and managed in a familiar and common way.
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager has built-in collaboration capabilities that provide a common setting for individuals and teams to analyse data and formulate strategy. It provides a robust framework for interpreting and working with business information, allowing people to not only understand data in its appropriate context, but also more effectively collaborate on group analysis and take action to improve business performance.
Get Started Quickly and Move Forward with Ease
Because all of the Microsoft Dynamics application suites offer direct, easy-to-implement methods to move essential financial, CRM and supply chain data to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, your organisation can quickly and easily begin taking advantage of Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager.
| • | Microsoft Dynamics AX
Get out-of-the-box interoperability through Microsoft Dynamics AX for business analytics. |
| • | Microsoft Dynamics GP
Use Microsoft Dynamics GP Analysis Cubes for Excel. |
| • | Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Gain interoperability through Microsoft Dynamics NAV for business analytics. |
| • | Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Extend the application's Microsoft SQL Server underpinning to build cube output that is meaningful (or take advantage of many Partners that have created pre-defined OLAP cubes based on Microsoft CRM). |
| • | Microsoft Dynamics for analytics
Use data from either of these applications through the Microsoft FRx instant OLAP capability to generate local and server-based cubes based on report data, which can include budget data from Microsoft Forecaster or your general ledger application. You can implement Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager on your own, or contact our support team to find out about Microsoft partner organisations who will help you put your solution into action. They can work with you to build dashboard views and key performance indicators and strategy maps to fit the unique business environment of your organisation, or they can install the application and just help you get started. |
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