Last week I mentioned the recent announcement by Acumatica which connects Acumatica to Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot, and Power Query. Then I made my case for why I think that Excel and the “Power” tools are a big deal. What about Report Designer? But where does the Report Designer in Acumatica fit into all of this? … [Read more...]
Acumatica Connects to Microsoft Excel and Power BI with OData
Update June 4th, 2015 - Checkout my guest post over at PowerPivotPro.com Update May 6th, 2015 - Checkout my guest post over at OData.org Hold onto your seats, the world’s fastest growing Cloud ERP software (Acumatica) is about to collide with the world’s most popular Reporting and Business Intelligence software (Microsoft Excel). Acumatica made the announcement this morning May 01, 2015 (click here) at Microsoft Build, the annual conference aimed at developers who use Microsoft’s next … [Read more...]
Excel Reports: A Glimpse Into Future Acumatica?
Currently, you can’t build Microsoft Excel reports in Acumatica. However, if Acumatica implements OData in the future, this will become a possibility. In the meantime, I created a simple Excel report as an example of the powerful things that you can do with Excel. This report was built for Sage 500 and is being sold through The Report Store (click here), but it would look exactly the same for Acumatica if the OData option is included at some point. So, maybe this is a glimpse into future … [Read more...]
Acumatica Excel Reporting–Two Options–BizNet BizInsight vs. Solver BI360 (part 2 of 2)
Last week (in part 1 of 2), I covered why I think BizNet BizInsight and Solver BI360 are important for Acumatica (click here). I currently work for a company that uses Sage 500 ERP and we were looking for an Excel-based reporting solution (BizNet BizInsight and Solver BI360 have the same functionality for Acumatica that they have for Sage 500 ERP). A colleague and I sat through demonstrations of both products and asked lots of questions. Based on that process, we chose Solver BI360 over BizNet … [Read more...]
Acumatica Excel Reporting–Two Options–BizNet BizInsight vs. Solver BI360 (part 1 of 2)
In this post (part 1 of 2), I’d like to cover why I think BizNet BizInsight and Solver BI360 are important for Acumatica. Next week, I’d like to give my opinion on which one I personally think is better and 5 reasons why. First, some background … [Read more...]