Elevate your business strategy with a comprehensive reporting solution
Reporting is not an afterthought at Rand Group, it is essential to help businesses make informed decisions. Our team of experienced consultants, data scientists, and solution architects consultants will help you choose the best reporting solution that will capture data from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 or related applications and present that data in an insightful format to the right user at the right time.
Overcome traditional reporting challenges and take control of your data
Most businesses today know that their reporting is not as good as it could be. It is often challenging to compile relevant information that is needed to make informed business decisions and present them in a coherent manner that can be analyzed and understood by others in your organization. With an inadequate reporting system, you put your business at risk.
With a comprehensive reporting solution, you get the tools you need to gain access to your data and instantly create individualized reports that are automatically updated and easily understood. Take the burden off of IT and enable business users to create and manage their own reports.
Rand Group provides the expertise to help you make sense of your data to make data-driven decisions. We take a holistic approach to analyzing your reporting, planning, and budgeting needs to make sure you have the right solutions in place for better access to the insights you need to evolve your business.
Enable self-service reporting
Empower stakeholders to use dashboards and self-service reporting to access data, create reports, and improve business agility, without the need of IT professionals or developers. Built-in templates and drag-and-drop features make building reports easier than ever.
Combine your financials across multiple companies with ease
Consolidate subsidiary and division financials up to the parent company level with built-in organizational trees. Take advantage of automatic intercompany transaction elimination processes and the built-in currency conversion functionality.
Share valuable insights to make better business decisions
Access reports from any device and ensure key personnel always have access to the data needed to make crucial decisions. Drill-down capability makes it easy for report viewers to answer their own questions by viewing the source data.
White Paper
Modernize your data strategy
Business Intelligence is a necessary investment to gain insight into your data. Yet a surprising number of organizations are still utilizing yesterday’s tools to try to solve the problems of tomorrow. We have compiled the lowest cost, highest return methods to add immediate value to your analytics and reporting investments in our 5 Tips for Modernizing Your Data Strategy white paper.
White Paper
Modernize your data strategy
Business Intelligence is a necessary investment to gain insight into your data. Yet a surprising number of organizations are still utilizing yesterday’s tools to try to solve the problems of tomorrow. We have compiled the lowest cost, highest return methods to add immediate value to your analytics and reporting investments in our 5 Tips for Modernizing Your Data Strategy white paper.
Customizable and powerful reporting
Take advantage of dynamic reporting software with out-of-the-box integrations to your Microsoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) or customer relationship management (CRM) systems whether cloud-based or on-premise. Create custom reports across any module without requiring specialized technical knowledge. Create standard and custom reports with more flexibility than native ERP or CRM reports.
Explore data and create reports with drill-down capabilities. Example reports include:
- Sales trends
- Revenue trends
- Vendor spending
- Daily cash flow tracking
- Weekly forecasting
- Supply chain inventory trends
- Balance sheet – variance report
- Advanced payables aging reports
- Income statement – dimension by sheet
Proactive financial close management
Move beyond spreadsheets and accelerate your financial close process with better data and instantly formatted financial reports. Connect data from all key finance processes in one place and streamline internal reporting and financial disclosure. Take complete control of internal and external close reporting with a software solution designed to be owned and managed by your finance team, without involving IT or outside consultants.
Experience the following benefits with a streamlined reporting and financial disclosure process:
- Drill down to the detailed transaction level
- One-click refresh delivers instantly formatted reports
- Reduced maintenance, training, and support costs
- Improved visibility and accuracy
- Faster close cycle
Rand Group helped us implement Jet Reports, and it has saved us so much time on reporting with Business Central. They do a great job at interpreting our requirements and helping get our business information in a format we can easily use and refresh.
Choose the reporting solution suited to your business needs
At Rand Group we focus on your business needs first and the technology solution to meet those needs second. We offer a wide variety of reporting solutions such as Power BI, Jet Reports, and Solver that enable you to streamline your reporting processes.
Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a robust data visualization suite that allows business users to take their data and summarize it in robust dashboards and stunning visualizations. See your entire business in a single view and collaborate quickly on reports anytime, anywhere with Power BI.
Jet Reports
Jet Reports allows business users to pull data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 into Excel to build powerful reports that can be shared online. Get all the operational data you need in the format you need it while eliminating reporting errors and costs by accessing data from source systems in Excel.
Solver
Solver is a Corporate Performance Management Solution that consolidates reporting and provides Excel and cloud-based reports to maximize decision-making capabilities. Solver can be used with any ERP system and is built for business users to manage the entire solution without the need for developers.
Related Insights
Solver integration with Dynamics 365
In January 2021, Solver and Microsoft announced an agreement to deliver Solver’s cloud-based planning solutions to Dynamics 365 customers more easily through QuickStart, a rapid deployment designed as an add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Finance to enable the implementation of Solver in as little as one day.
Why upgrade from Dynamics GP Management Reporter to Jet Reports
In 2016, Microsoft announced the end of new investment for Management Reporter and partnered with Jet to provide a free version of Jet Reports for all Dynamics GP users. This post will compare and contrast the features of Management Reporter with Jet Reports, then compare the included version of Jet in Dynamics GP with the full version of Jet to help users understand if they could benefit from upgrading to Jet Reports.
How to connect Business Central and Power BI
The gold standard of data visualization software, Power BI allows users to connect and upload their data from hundreds of sources, including the Dynamics 365 suite of applications. By combining Business Central with the visualization power of Power BI, businesses can gain even more insight and view a wider picture of the health of their organization.
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