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insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI

insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI is a powerful, extended planning and analysis (xP&A) software solution that helps businesses streamline and enhance their budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. It delivers a simple-to-use, automated data warehouse that allows businesses to easily consolidate and transform financial and operational data into a single-source-of-truth, utilizing Microsoft Analysis Services data cubes ready for use with Power BI.

This solution empowers business leaders and contributors to work in their preferred environment, offering them a secure place to analyze, plan, model, comment, write-back, and collaborate in real time.

Additionally, it delivers enterprise-strength planning, forecasting, and write-back capabilities directly in Power BI, enabling businesses to plan, forecast, model, collaborate, and write-back to the trusted single-source-of-truth data set from within Power BI.

This improves data accuracy through better data governance and control, helps businesses avoid workflow disruption, and increases efficiency and collaboration throughout the planning process. Users can implement rolling forecasts to drive agility and accuracy across the organization.

The following diagram displays the insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI architecture. Microsoft Dynamics data sources flow into the JDM where the data is prepped and modelled for easy analysis and write-back in Power BI.

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insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI is a bundled solution to deliver the data warehousing/ETL toolset and the Power BI planning and write-back capabilities.

By deploying the insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI solution, you can leverage the following capabilities:

  • Self-service write-back and planning in Power BI with real-time data and visualizations

  • The familiarity of Excel within Power BI – Familiar Excel-like functionality allows for easy product adoption, with customers able to use pivot tables, forms, reports, and charts in Power BI with client-side settings, calculations, formatting, and filtering.

  • Seamless data enrichment and enhancement

  • Powerful planning features

  • Control and consistency over your data

  • Simplified Data Estate - Easily consolidate multiple data sources in one place, combining ERP and non-ERP data

  • Pre-built data warehouse designed for planning, reporting, and analytics

Click on the links below to refer to the documentation for more information about the elements in the insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI solution:

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