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Cosmos for Dynamics 365 BCThe Next Generation of Business Central Reporting |
Product Verticals: All Industries
Business Processes: Accounting, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Financial Management, Reporting
Cosmos is a cloud-based reporting and business analytics solution built specifically for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Fully supported by Microsoft Azure, Cosmos provides a unified, intuitive platform to easily create and modify reports, edit data models, manage users, and share information – all without technical expertise or familiarity with the underlying data structure.
Unlike other on-premise reporting solutions for Business Central, Cosmos includes a powerful data warehouse to clean and organize data from multiple sources and optimize it for reporting and business intelligence. Its seamless integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory lets users easily log in with their Microsoft Business Central or Office credentials and start building reports and dashboards immediately in Excel or Power BI.
With governed data, a familiar Excel interface, and self-service data visualization at their fingertips, Cosmos makes report creation easier for everyday Business Central users – equipping them with the data and tools they need for faster operational analysis, smarter decision-making, and instant results. What really sets Cosmos apart from other Business Central reporting and BI solutions is its lightning-fast speed. Cosmos runs reports 48 times faster than any other Excel reporting system and allows users to run unlimited reports simultaneously without tying up Excel or other business applications.
If you’re having trouble getting the data and reports you need from Business Central, here are some of the reasons why other Business Central-run companies are choosing Cosmos cloud reporting:
•Eliminate the technical burden of reporting - no technical expertise required!
•Experience turnkey reports from day one with quick data migration and customizable pre-built templates for Business Central
•Easily build and share custom reports, ad-hoc queries, and Power BI dashboards with user-friendly point-and-click report design in a familiar Excel online interface
•Run unlimited reports simultaneously
•Connect to Power BI instantly with unique two-way integration
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There are some great out of the box reports, but also the support that was given to help develop specific reports that were needed for my companies was fantastic. Cosmos helped so much in building the reports and showing me how to create reports as well. Reports are clear and easy to run.
Cosmos was very responsive to any help we needed and especially with creating very specific reporting that my company needed. I am looking forward to working with them to create more specific reports. I would recommend Cosmos
The logic of the software links the back end tables easily to provide highly customizable reports. The G.U.I. is much better to use than any other competitors crazy formulas. Each report works extremely well in excel.
Takes time to learn software. Like any other software, however the rate of learning is much faster.
Interaction with Cosmos as a software has been excellent - the team is always available to help solve any issues really fast.
I appreciate the flexibility of Cosmos and that really any data in BC can get pulled into Cosmos and reported on. The scheduled reports is a great feature as well, rather than having someone have to run these reports manually.
Overall I've enjoyed our experience with Cosmos. I think it's a solid program and backed up by very helpful people, always willing to help us any time we need it.
Switch from Jet Reports because it was too expensive and very cumbersome.
"Our experience with the vendor's support services, product roadmap, access to their database community and their product feedback sessions all contribute to our high rating."
The team at Cosmos did an excellent job of explaining the setup and how to use the program. Any questions that we had during implementation they immediately took the time to show and explain the solutions
Pros: The ease of setting up new reports. It is very straight forward and makes sense
Cons: Hard to say as I really don't have any negative about the program
Switched from: Jet Reports. We found the other product to be extremely difficult to learn and almost always had to get help to understand any of the reports we wanted to build.
Excellent. In a world of do-it-yourself support, it's very refreshing to find a product that includes quick, complete, easy to access and personable support. Both the onboarding process and transitioning to full use of Cosmos has been very smooth.
Pros: Works well with our cloud-based Business Central accounting software; works for both our PC and Mac users. Report writing is straightforward; there's a learning curve of course, but support is readily available with quick turnaround. Very user-friendly interface for our report consumers. Quick set up, easy login, most reports run very quickly and can be run concurrently. Scheduling function is great.
Cons: Our Cosmos database updates overnight. We can do an unscheduled refresh, but that takes roughly 45-60 minutes. Working with day-old data has been a little bit of an adjustment vis-a-vis our old reporting system. For 80% of our reports, the data is fine. For month end work, we're finding ways to adjust or work around the updates. There are a few reporting functions that I'd like to see -- I know that the Cosmos team is working on these enhancements (e.g. report option dropdowns, hiding of rows and columns).
Reason for choosing Cosmos: Our team at Business Central advocated switching entirely to Power BI. While we still may use Power BI through Cosmos, the Power BI reports were limited and just didn't meet our company's reporting needs. With Cosmos, I can produce simple reports or complicated, multi-worksheet reports that integrate manual data.
Switched from: Jet Reports.
Jet did not support our Mac users in a cloud environment. We were stuck with using a very expensive remote server setup, and the reports didn't run well.
With everything built on the Microsoft stack, it's easy to get users up and running. The report performance is excellent. And being integrated directly with Business Central data is such a benefit to any business.
Pros: It is easy to use and deploy. Reports run very quickly. Very easy to format, add formulas, take advantage of all of Excel's functionality. The customer service is amazing!
Cons: I would like the ability to schedule and distribute reports automatically.
Switched from: Jet Reports. Our other reporting software had limited functionality, and it would take some reports over 90 minutes to run. The same report runs in less than 1 minute with Cosmos.
Cosmos is very easy to set up and administer. We’ve moved away from recommending any other solution and are actively educating our existing customers on its benefits. We believe it's the top choice for Business Central users.
Excellent