COSMO Quick Start Analytics
COSMO Quick Start Analytics is a comprehensive but light-weight standard reporting solution for D365 Business Central SaaS customers. It is designed in a modular way, closely aligned with the most important ERP business processes.
Thus, COSMO Quick Start Analytics covers the following process areas:
- Inventory
- Demand Planning
- Manufacturing (discrete)
- Quality control
- Know Your Customer
- Sales
- Purchase
- ...
Common functionality
COSMO Quick Start Analytics has some basic functionality which is applicable to all reports.
Easy-to-understand "Star schema"
COSMO Quick Start Analytics uses Power BI best-practices when it comes to data modeling. All COSMO Quick Start Analytics modules follow the Star schema (or Kimball) modeling approach. This means, that the Power BI semantic models are optimized towards performance and usability. The analyst can easily find and understand all the dimensions (= master-data) including the attributes as well as facts (= transaction) and derived measures within the data model.
Time Intelligence
COSMO Quick Start Analytics provides a Time Intelligence calculation for all included measures. So you can automatically calculate historical values and/or comparisons over periods. The following time intelligence calculations are included:
| Abbreviation | Description |
|---|---|
| Current | Current Value (Value of the selected Time Period) |
| PY | Previous Year |
| PM | Previous Month |
| ATD | ALL To Date (cumulative value since the very beginning) |
| YTD | Year To Date |
| PY YTD | Previous Year To Date |
| QTD | Quarter To Date |
| MTD | Month To Date |
| YoY | Year over Year comparison (abs.) |
| YoY % | Year over Year comparison (rel.) |
| R12 | Rolling 12 Months |