Maximizing Insights from Your ERP System with Automate Analytics
In today’s data-driven business environment, having access to comprehensive and actionable insights is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. While most businesses rely on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like ODOO, SAGE Evolution, Syspro, or Microsoft Dynamics 365 to manage their operations, these systems often fall short when it comes to advanced analytics capabilities. This is where Automate Analytics steps in to transform how businesses leverage their existing data.
The Reporting Limitations of a Single ERP System
ERP systems are excellent at what they’re designed for—managing business processes, transactions, and day-to-day operations. However, they frequently present challenges when businesses need deeper analytical insights:
- Limited reporting capabilities: Most built-in ERP reports provide basic information but lack advanced analytical features
- Restricted timeframe analysis: As data grows, ERP systems slow down, leading companies to archive older data and lose historical analysis capabilities
- Cross-entity reporting gaps: When multiple business entities exist within one system, comparing data across entities becomes cumbersome or impossible
- Manual export processes: Users often resort to exporting data to Excel and manually creating reports, a time-consuming and error-prone process
- Custom tag and category limitations: Analyzing performance by custom-defined parameters often exceeds standard ERP reporting capabilities
These limitations don’t mean your ERP system is insufficient—it simply means it needs a companion solution focused specifically on analytics.
What is Automate Analytics?
Automate Analytics is a specialized data platform designed to work alongside your existing business systems. Automate Analytics is simply a data platform that enables a business to report in a single place, no matter how many systems they have, and get a unified view of the customer, supplier and business operations data.
Unlike traditional data warehouse solutions that typically take months or years to implement with exorbitant costs, Automate Analytics leverages established patterns across businesses to deliver immediate value. The platform bridges the gap between your operational system and the advanced insights you need to make informed business decisions.
Key Benefits for Single-System Businesses
Even if your organization uses just one ERP system, Automate Analytics provides several significant advantages:
1. Advanced Reporting Capabilities
Your ERP system may offer basic reporting, but Automate Analytics takes it to the next level. The platform enables complex analyses that would be difficult or impossible within your ERP system, such as:
- Multi-dimensional analysis of business performance
- Detailed variance reporting across different parameters
- Custom KPI tracking specific to your business needs
- Advanced visualizations and interactive dashboards
2. Extended Historical Analysis
As businesses grow, so does their data. Many ERP systems struggle with performance when maintaining years of historical information, forcing companies to archive older data. Automate Analytics solves this problem by:
- Maintaining a comprehensive repository of historical data
- Enabling multi-year trend analysis without performance degradation
- Providing the ability to compare performance across extended time periods
- Preserving access to archived business data for continued analysis
3. Seamless Excel Integration
If your team has invested time in creating Excel-based reports, Automate Analytics doesn’t require you to start over:
You can still use Excel. Automate Analytics will do the data generation for you and the preparation for you. And then when you want to update your Excel reports, all you do is hit ‘get data’ or refresh your report to update without you having to do any exports or manual tinkering around.
This means your existing Excel reports can be connected to automated data feeds, eliminating manual exports while preserving your reporting formats.
4. Cross-Entity Reporting
For businesses with multiple entities in a single ERP instance, Automate Analytics breaks down the reporting silos:
If you are in company A and you run AP now, you can’t run AP now for company A and Company B combined. In general, Automate Analytics helps you bridge that gap and gives you the capability to have more advanced reports.
This consolidated view across entities provides a more comprehensive understanding of overall business performance.
The Implementation Advantage
Unlike traditional data warehousing projects that can take months or years to implement, Automate Analytics offers a faster path to insights. The platform leverages patterns and structures common across businesses to accelerate implementation while still providing customization for your specific needs.
Because we’ve worked with a lot of these systems over multiple years and multiple projects, there are just some cool things that remain the same across any business, and so that’s what Automate Analytics is leveraging—those core things.
Elevate Your Business Intelligence
In today’s competitive landscape, having access to comprehensive business insights isn’t just about reporting—it’s about gaining a competitive advantage. Automate Analytics enhances your existing ERP system by providing the advanced analytical capabilities needed to drive strategic decisions.
Whether you’re looking to analyze long-term trends, create cross-entity reports, or simply eliminate manual reporting processes, Automate Analytics offers a solution that maximizes the value of your business data without disrupting your existing systems.
By implementing Automate Analytics alongside your ERP system, you gain a powerful companion that focuses exclusively on turning your operational data into actionable business intelligence—helping you make better decisions faster and with greater confidence.
Ready to elevate your business intelligence capabilities? Discover how Automate Analytics can transform reporting for your organization by reaching out to our team today.
