DATAZEN with Dynamics NAV 2016 and BI Integrations

1. Roberto Stefanetti | Microsoft Dynamics Community Moderator - NAV
DATAZEN with Dynamics NAV & BI Integrations

2. ABOUT DATAZEN
“Microsoft Acquires Datazen, Microsoft accelerates its
strategy to help every company create a data culture and
ensure insights reach every individual in every organization.”
Datazen solution is now available with the latest version of
SQL Server 2014 Enterprise (free to use, embedded on SQL
Server Enterprise)

3. DATAZEN

4. Datazen Topics
KPI Repository
For quick, timely insights
– Showing the latest values and trends
– Related dashboards provide detailed analysis
BI Dashboards
Data visualization and analysis
– Interactive visualizations
– Detailed analysis and drill-throughs
– Perfect scaling to any screen form-factor
Team Collaboration
Stay on top of BI hub activity
– Participate in KPI & dashboard conversations
– See when new dashboards & KPIs are published
– Collaborate on the go from any device

5. Datazen Topics
Single Point of Publishing
– Connect to your data sources via the Datazen
Publisher app, create dashboard layouts for master,
tablet & phone views, then publish to all devices
“NB: ALL Content is accessible via the mobile clients,
IOS, Windows Phone or Android, and web browsers !!
..great !”
Datazen is working with NAV ? … sure !!
.. you can use NAV “OData” publishing technology to
connect Datazen Server to NAV Server
.. you can also use SQL Native (and ODBC) connectors.

6. NAV and DATAZEN Integration
Microsoft “to-be Dashboarding & Mobile BI”
Integration Scenario

7. Applications Integration “Scope”
- Reporting Services (Paginated Reports) MAIN
REPORTSDASHBOARDSKPI
OBJECTS REPOSITORY (also on SharePoint if
necessary…)
- Power BI (Interactive Reports and ETL Scheduling)
- Datazen (Mobile reports.dashboard & KPI)
- Excel (Power Pivot, Power Query etc. ) Analitycal
and charts

8. Links
Datazen
http://www.datazen.com/
Datazen Publisher (and Viewer) APS
https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/store/apps/datazen-
publisher/9wzdncrdkv41
… nice post here
The Future of Power BI Looks Bright!
http://www.erpsoftwareblog.com/2015/06/future-power-
bi-looks-bright/