Many organizations struggle with providing business insight in a timely manner as resource-constrained IT departments can’t keep up with the requests from business users. Far too often users are spending too much unproductive time creating manual reports that are static and outdated. Facing ever-accelerating change and the pressure from more prevalent global competition, it is more important than ever that organizations have instant access to up-to-date financial and operational performance to spot trends and identify challenges so they can act early. In previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX we enabled business intelligence as part of the ERP experience. The business user can access important information throughout the solution, via Role Center pages, which are dashboards that provide an overview of information that pertains to a user’s job function and by using Microsoft BI technology such as Microsoft Excel. In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 we further improved the BI capa...