Beyond the ledgers

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In an era where data is the new currency and Artificial Intelligence is the new frontier, analytics stands in the middle, helping businesses who want to extract information from data. This book delves into the heart of analytics, unraveling its power to transform raw data into strategic insights. As AI continues to evolve, analytics becomes not just a tool, but a vital differentiator that can make or break your company’s future. It is the compass that navigates decision-making, the lens that sharpens focus, and the engine that drives innovation. In this pivotal moment, understanding analytics is not just beneficial—it’s imperative for survival and success in the digital age.

But how can you make such a vision for analytics practical in your organization? Silvius’s book tries to do that, being very hands-on and focusing on one very practical aspect of analytics, namely ad-hoc data analysis of data in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. You need to do ad-hoc data analysis whenever you have questions that cannot be answered by running an already existing report. For example, when your manager asks you “How many teddy bears did we sell in Greece last month compared to same month last year” on a Friday afternoon, five minutes before you had planned to leave the office to pick up your kids. Business Central has a built-in tool for this type of analytics, and Silviu is an expert in how the tool can be used in all functional areas of your ERP system. Read the book end-to-end, or as a reference where you look up new applications when starting to learn new functionality in Business Central. No matter your learning style, I am sure that you can take away key learnings from reading Silvius’s book and directly apply ways to perform data analysis in your organization. This way, you can make the somewhat abstract introduction in this foreword tangible and concrete.

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan,

Principal Program Manager at Microsoft

In an era where data is the new currency and Artificial Intelligence is the new frontier, analytics stands in the middle, helping businesses who want to extract information from data. This book delves into the heart of analytics, unraveling its power to transform raw data into strategic insights. As AI continues to evolve, analytics becomes not just a tool, but a vital differentiator that can make or break your company’s future. It is the compass that navigates decision-making, the lens that sharpens focus, and the engine that drives innovation. In this pivotal moment, understanding analytics is not just beneficial—it’s imperative for survival and success in the digital age.

But how can you make such a vision for analytics practical in your organization? Silvius’s book tries to do that, being very hands-on and focusing on one very practical aspect of analytics, namely ad-hoc data analysis of data in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. You need to do ad-hoc data analysis whenever you have questions that cannot be answered by running an already existing report. For example, when your manager asks you “How many teddy bears did we sell in Greece last month compared to same month last year” on a Friday afternoon, five minutes before you had planned to leave the office to pick up your kids. Business Central has a built-in tool for this type of analytics, and Silviu is an expert in how the tool can be used in all functional areas of your ERP system. Read the book end-to-end, or as a reference where you look up new applications when starting to learn new functionality in Business Central. No matter your learning style, I am sure that you can take away key learnings from reading Silvius’s book and directly apply ways to perform data analysis in your organization. This way, you can make the somewhat abstract introduction in this foreword tangible and concrete.

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan,

Principal Program Manager at Microsoft