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New Practice Area Focuses on Business Intelligence

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Paul James will head up new practice focused on Business Intelligence (BI) solutions This fall Boyer & Associates will debut a new practice area focused on Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence, or BI, generally refers to the process of analyzing data to make informed business decisions. Specifically, it refers to software that helps businesses compile data from multiple systems into usable reports to make those decisions. Popular BI software solutions include BI360 (from Solver) and Jet Reports, both of which Boyer & Associates already offers. Having a practice focused on this area of business management software will guarantee dedicated time to such projects. Heading up the new practice is Paul James, one of Boyer’s … [Read more...] about New Practice Area Focuses on Business Intelligence

Jet Reports – A Simple Reporting Solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Jet Reports allows companies to gain visibility through the creation of reports and dashboards using Microsoft Excel – analysis all seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.  Through Jet Reports, companies can author and publish their own reports, sharing them within and outside of the company. Jet Reports allows custom reports to be written using multiple tables and with advanced calculations built-in.  These reports can be distributed through automatic distribution functionality and saved to be used time and again.  Jet screen inquiries allow the user to drill down on the data back to the source within NAV to allow for quick and easy verification of data.  Jet’s drill down capability respects the security setups within NAV, so … [Read more...] about Jet Reports – A Simple Reporting Solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Tips to Resolving Font Name Error In Management Reporter

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If you’ve migrated from FRx to Management Reporter, you may have noticed there may be some fonts that are not available on the system. The migration report may show that all fonts migrated successfully but when you open a Row Definition or Column Definition you may receive an error that the font cannot be found. This will then crash Report Designer with the following error: To resolve this error: Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the ManagementReporter database. Run the following script: (replacing ‘FONTNAME’ with the font name in the error message) to see how many objects are using the font in the error message. Select * from ControlFontStyle where FontName = 'FONTNAME' Now run the following script to update all … [Read more...] about Tips to Resolving Font Name Error In Management Reporter