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Zap Business Intelligence or Microsot Dynamics AXturns transactions into insight, empowering employees

to improve perormance and create a exible,competitive, and agile enterprise.

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Zap Business Intelligence or Microsot Dynamics AX is anout-o-the-box solution that turns your AX transactions into

insight, empowering employees to improve perormance.Enhance decision-making and perormance managementwith business intelligence (BI) capabilities such as dashboards,key perormance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, andanalysis, and accelerate business value with alerts, andreport scheduling.

“Crest is now able at a touch o a button to produce accurate sales perormance reports that analyze our business by channel, customer, and product category down to the gross proft level. We’ve gained insight into

the perormance o our major retail customers down to store level enabling us to identiy targets or improved distribution. As a distributor we live and die by our margins; at any time during the day we can see our marginperormance by customer and product category.” 

Matt BirtwistleChie Financial OfcerCrest Electronics

Delivers a rapid return on investment (ROI). Deployment is ast,instant value is provided to end users, and it’s easy to makerapid eciency gains. Costs or ongoing maintenance andchange management are minimal, adding to a low total costo ownership.

RApid ROI

Put perormance inormation in the hands o your businessusers. Pre-built analytics give you instant visibility rom dayone o your rollout. Even the most remote employees can gaininstant access using a web browser. The interace has a amiliarMicrosot eel, and users can create their own analytics easily,without needing technical help. Instead o searching throughendless reports to nd crucial inormation, use rules, alerts, andexception reporting or immediate notication about changesin perormance.

nsTAnT visibiliTy

Reports tell you what happened, but what you really need toknow is why. Easily navigate your data to uncover the reasonsbehind perormance, and use these insights to improve.

nsTAnT AnsweRs Provides a rapid, low-risk deployment, no matter how muchyou’ve customized Microsot Dynamics® AX. Our wizard-driventechnology ast tracks the solution set up and makes it easyto import customizations on an ongoing basis, even or entirevertical solutions.

InsTAnT cusTomiZATions

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Align sAles And

pRoducTion

Fine tune your business by analyzing the cost o producingdiferent products, their protability, and whether any shouldbe trimmed. Better understand your market segments and thedistribution channels that are working most efectively, so youknow where to ocus your time and resources.

GAin conTRol oveRvARiAnces

Gain greater insight into planned vs actual results by conductingin-depth variance analysis. Identiy areas o weakness wheretighter controls are needed, and analyze variance over time toensure you see the ull picture.

Achieve RepoRTing

consisTency

I you have diferent businesses, business units, or regions, itcan be dicult to achieve consistent corporate reporting,particularly i diferent business systems are used. Lets youcreate metrics and reports once, then export and re-use themanywhere inside or outside your organization, regardless o diferent data sources.

AUTOmATe AnDImPRoVe RePORTInG

Drastically reduce the time your team spends on reporting,and ree up more time to perorm strategic analysis that willmake a diference to the bottom line. Automate your reportingworkows, and ensure that all reporting is done rom a central,online location.

Stop the use o unsecured spreadsheets by providing morepowerul unctionality than a pivot table, so nancial userscan create list and aggregate reports. Streamline managementreporting with report packs - create report templates that areauto-populated on opening, and collate individual analyticstogether with commentary, title pages and contents pages intoPDF les or immediate distribution.

SolveBusiness Problems

Gives you the power to ask the hard questions, and get instant answers. How well can you answer questions such as...

• Who are your most protable customers and products?• Are your suppliers meeting perormance targets?• What are your wastage rates?• What proportion o shipments go out on time?• How much cash will you have in three months?• How well are you managing excessive stock or customer turnover due to stock outs?• How quickly are you inormed about changes in Key Perormance Indicators?• How automated is your management reporting?

Use to solve your business problems, including:

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HighlightsA single, complete solution to meet ALL your business intelligence needsUse a single, central solution to meet ALL your reporting and analysis needs. Prepare exception reports, perormunlimited slice-and-dice analysis by dimension, create cross ledger reports, and view consolidated reports across

your AX modules. You only maintain and train one application – which ensures a low total cost o ownership andmaximum productivity.

So user riendly it becomes the heartbeat o your organizationOur aim is to make the heartbeat o your organization – the mission critical system used by your business leaders

every day to manage more efectively. Business leaders demand pragmatic usability combined with the exibility

to t the solution to their individual needs – and delivers. Users never touch code or rely on developers to createanalytics.

Proactive intelligence provides an early warning systemIt’s a act – we’re all time pressured. Employees don’t have time to manually review data to see what’s happening

and what’s changed. Automates discovery and learning so that issues are highlighted the moment they occur.Alerts are pushed to the relevant employees – and combined with contextual reports that show the cause o perormance changes. Reports can be scheduled, distributed, and subscribed to, based on a combination o events

and timerames.

Powerul analytics that make a dierence to the bottom lineGives you all the standard capabilities your users expect, including reports, ad-hoc analysis, scorecards, dashboards,and Key Perormance Indicators (KPIs). It also includes advanced capabilities that have a high impact on operational

efectiveness and bottom line protability – such as alerts and report scheduling, automated management

reporting, and optional predictive analytics modules. Business users are empowered to create their own analytics,while power users appreciate the simplicity and exibility in creating complex analytics and automating workows.

Rapid set up and maintenance, even or your customizationsThe most time consuming and resource intensive part o analytics projects is the set up o the underlying cube to

suit your individual needs. We provide Zap CubeXpress, which automatically identies your Microsot Dynamicscustomizations, relationships, and data usage to produce an optimized, meaningul cube you can use immediately.This greatly reduces the technical resources you need to get started, and means you can run the process at any

time to keep your cube up-to-date with ongoing changes. Zap CubeXpress can also be used to build a cube or aSQL Server ® database.

Extreme fexibility to adapt the solution to your needsGives you unprecedented exibility to truly make the solution your own. Give users the choice o viewing analyticsvia Outlook® or exporting to Excel®, or integrate with your SharePoint® deployment. You can even extend the

solution to other non-Dynamics business systems to create a single, enterprise analytics portal. Cater or multi-lingual users - Zap’s architecture supports the automatic presentation o the solution in the user’s local language.

And share and tailor the system as much as you need to – export analytics to standardize across regions andcompanies, even across diferent deployments; create custom calculations and business templates to share withusers; and customize the help when you add new capabilities.

Minimal technical resources = low TCO and rapid ROIYou’ll need minimal technical resources to deploy, train, and maintain, leading to a low total cost o ownership,

and a rapid return on investment. Our wizard-driven application ast tracks the solution setup; the web interaceor end users means you can deploy rapidly with no sotware installation; packaged analytics provide meaningulcontent rom day 1; and usability removes the complexities, time and resources required to create custom analytics

and ensure user adoption. The solution is built using 100% Microsot technology, which minimizes any need orspecialist technical resources.

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