When Power BI Isn't Enough—Elevate Your Data Strategy with Data Warehouse Automation
Uncover the Difference: Accelerate BI Implementation, Reduce Costs, and Gain Deeper Insights with BI4Dynamics' Data Warehouse Solution for Microsoft Dynamics
Why Power BI Alone May Not Be Enough
Building a custom Power BI project can be time-consuming, costly, and often fails to deliver immediate results.
Data warehouse automation offers a faster, more scalable solution with pre-built reports, automatic data validation, and no-code customization options.
Power BI is great for data visualization, but when it comes to complex, large-scale reporting, Power BI alone often struggles with performance issues when scaling, requiring significant customization to handle complex datasets.
- Long Development Cycles: Custom Power BI projects can take 6+ months and require high costs.
- Limited Scalability: Custom solutions often struggle when it comes to large datasets or growing businesses.
- Manual Data Validation: Constant manual validation of data increases time and resource usage.
- Complex Customization: Power BI customizations require advanced skills in DAX, M, and Power Query.
Data Warehouse Automation combined with Power BI takes your business intelligence to the next level.
Custom Power BI vs Data Warehouse Automation
- What’s the Difference?
Building a custom Power BI project can be time-consuming, costly, and often fails to deliver immediate results.
Data warehouse automation offers a faster, more scalable solution with pre-built reports, automatic data validation, and no-code customization options.
| Power BI Project | BI4Dynamics | |
|---|---|---|
| Content | Scope & quality varies and depends on partner's BI experience | 12 areas, 52 facts, 150 dimensions, 3100 measures |
| Scalability | Limited with large datasets | Highly scalable Data Warehouse engine |
| Development | Manual effort: Requires Power Query and DAX skills | Metadata-based & Wizard-driven code generation |
| Data Validation | Manual validation needed | A part of the BI model |
| Project Cost | High: Project is service intensive | Reasonable & Predictable: Software subscription fee |
| Error Handling | Requires ongoing manual work | Automated e-mail notifications and control dashboard |
| Implementation Time | ? | Days |
| Feature | Power BI Project | BI4Dynamics Data Warehouse Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Content | ⛔ Scope & quality varies and depends on partner's BI experience | ✅ 12 areas, 52 facts, 150 dimensions, 3100 measures |
| Scalability | ⛔ Limited with large datasets | ✅ Highly scalable Data Warehouse engine |
| Development | ⛔ Manual effort: Requires Power Query and DAX skills | ✅ Metadata-based & Wizard-driven code generation |
| Data Validation | ⛔ Manual validation needed | ✅ A part of the BI model |
| Project Cost | ⛔ High: Project is service intensive | ✅ Reasonable & Predictable: Software subscription fee |
| Error Handling | ⛔ Requires ongoing manual work | ✅ Automated e-mail notifications and control dashboard |
| Implementation Time | ⛔ ? | ✅ Days |
We needed a BI solution that is actively maintained and supported across different versions of the Dynamics landscape, as well as being able to deal with future technologies as system upgrades occur.
With daily updated NAV data from BI4Dynamics, sales dashboards now deliver itemized sales and KPIs to Armen Living’s sales team, enabling them to identify issues and improve sales performance with targeted strategies.
We chose to have all modules due to the high-speed and extensiveness our Demo Trial Reports has shown. Hence, we realized having fast and thorough information about various departments of each of our companies can never hurt.
We wanted a more modern platform that would allow us to leverage Power BI and Excel to do analysis and build dashboards for all business units and departments.
With BI4Dynamics, we have harnessed the potential of our data and the insights we gain empower our teams across all departments to make data-driven decisions every day.
Microsoft’s Dynamics foundation is rock solid; however, there are manymore pieces of important data living in other Dynamics extensions and third-party systems, that we need to analyze for a complete view of the business.
We were searching for a solution that is bringing transparency across all our ERP Systems and that is scalable to all 27 Navisions across the entire world.
BI4Dynamics out-of-the-box reports have saved our analysts a tremendous amount of time versus learning the data structure and creating F&O reports on our own.
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Customer Success Stories
We needed a BI solution that is actively maintained and supported across different versions of the Dynamics landscape, as well as being able to deal with future technologies as system upgrades occur.
BI4Dynamics out-of-the-box reports have saved our analysts a tremendous amount of time versus learning the data structure and creating F&O reports on our own.
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With daily updated NAV data from BI4Dynamics, sales dashboards now deliver itemized sales and KPIs to Armen Living’s sales team, enabling them to identify issues and improve sales performance with targeted strategies.
We chose to have all modules due to the high-speed and extensiveness our Demo Trial Reports has shown. Hence, we realized having fast and thorough information about various departments of each of our companies can never hurt.
We wanted a more modern platform that would allow us to leverage Power BI and Excel to do analysis and build dashboards for all business units and departments.
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With BI4Dynamics, we have harnessed the potential of our data and the insights we gain empower our teams across all departments to make data-driven decisions every day.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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Microsoft’s Dynamics foundation is rock solid; however, there are manymore pieces of important data living in other Dynamics extensions and third-party systems, that we need to analyze for a complete view of the business.
We were searching for a solution that is bringing transparency across all our ERP Systems and that is scalable to all 27 Navisions across the entire world.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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