Seth Godin has a great post up on Compromise, design and the literal edges. In the post he talks about the inevitable compromise when trying to optimize for multiple factors and the breakthroughs that can happen when you focus on just one. That’s the idea behind Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics GP. It’s been optimized for SIMPLICITY. Is it fast? Sure. Is it as fast as it could be? No. Is it fast enough? You bet. Is it flexible? Absolutely. That’s why it’s built on Excel. But flexibility wasn’t the key requirement. Simplicity was.
Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics GP presents a simple straightforward dashboard based on information in Dynamics GP. It has a single connection that takes about a minute to set up. Security is based on the SQL/Excel Reports model already present in GP. Add your network user, check the report box and you’ve got data. Change the company name and add a logo and you’ve got a dashboard.
A barrier to adoption for dashboards is the work and effort to get started. Few business intelligence projects are ever finished. Make getting started simple.
