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The Top 7 Data Aggregation Tools in 2024

Astera

Business analysts, data scientists, IT professionals, and decision-makers across various industries rely on data aggregation tools to gather and analyze data. Essentially, any organization aiming to leverage data for competitive advantage will benefit from data aggregation tools.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Insight Software

Embedded analytics are a set of capabilities that are tightly integrated into existing applications (like your CRM, ERP, financial systems, and/or information portals) that bring additional awareness, context, or analytic capability to support business decision-making. The Business Services group leads in the usage of analytics at 19.5

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Meeting the Challenge of Operational Reporting in Microsoft D365BC

Insight Software

Due to these and other common operational reporting challenges with the ERP, Microsoft D365BC recommends that enterprises use Power BI, custom reporting (SSRS), or third-party software for reporting and analysis. A Better Way Forward with insightsoftware.

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What is Data Mapping?

Insight Software

Data mapping is essential for integration, migration, and transformation of different data sets; it allows you to improve your data quality by preventing duplications and redundancies in your data fields. First, it reduces the potential for errors and inconsistencies in data movement and transformation.

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Microsoft BC Connector Updated: What You Should Know

Insight Software

For the reasons described earlier, Microsoft closed off customers’ ability to directly access the underlying ERP data using SQL database queries, opting instead to publish a dedicated set of web services APIs (application programming interfaces) that would allow programmatic access to the data.

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Four Benefits of Scenario Modeling in Excel

Insight Software

A better solution is to use a tool that enables you to work with a shared, single source of truth for your planning data, model an unlimited number of scenarios quickly and easily, and work within an environment that is as familiar and flexible as Excel. As a standalone tool, Excel does come with some limitations, however.

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Technology in the Finance Function: Which Trends Will Impact Tax and Transfer Pricing?

Insight Software

Three of the most important of these are: cloud migration, data standardization, and interoperability. With cloud migration that means making upgrades, licensing, procurement and maintenance simpler with software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. The aim of technology in finance is to remove friction.

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