As more and more reporting tools are made available for Enterprise Resource Planning tools such as Dynamics GP, it becomes more of a challenge for us to select the right tool for a given circumstance. Every organization has a unique set of requirements when it comes to analyzing its data, and our goal should be to ensure that we select the right tool to meet those requirements. Additionally, each tool has its trade-offs, and we must always be aware of these trade-offs while we are selecting a reporting tool to meet our needs. In the end, we don't want to try and fit the proverbial square peg in a round hole as by forcing a reporting tool to meet challenges that simply don't align well with the strengths of that tool.
In this chapter, we'll answer some of these questions about selecting the right tool to meet our challenges by:
Recapping what we've discussed in each of the last nine chapters
Discussing each of the reporting challenges we covered in Chapter...