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Microsoft Power BI · Business Analytics
What is ePower Analytics?
ePower Analytics is eMazzanti's out-of-the-box Microsoft Power BI analytics solution — a pre-built, configurable datacube that connects directly to your ERP, CRM, POS, and eCommerce data to deliver real-time dashboards for sales, finance, operations, and customer service — deployed in weeks, not months.
Built on 20+ years of ERP integration experience, ePower Analytics works with NetSuite, Microsoft Business Central, Dynamics NAV, Sage, Epicor, and many others. It answers 90% or more of the business questions that arise every day — automatically, without manual reporting — and updates at minimum once per day on your schedule.
Retail and fashion, manufacturing, and project services companies each get industry-specific analytics: from sales mix and campaign ROI to inventory turns, vendor on-time performance, and project profitability. Starting at $1 per user per day for teams of 26 or more.
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Sales
Sales & Marketing Analytics
Automated sales reporting, dynamic leaderboards, month-over-month growth tracking, and goal-setting dashboards — so your team always knows where performance stands and what to do next.
Finance
Financial Performance & A/R Analytics
Automated financial reporting, past-due A/R collections prioritization, A/P payment monitoring, department expense management, and budget vs. actual — with year-over-year and month-over-month views.
Customer
Customer Service & Behavior Analytics
Track customer loyalty, buying patterns, order value trends, delivery performance, discounts, and returns — so your team understands not just who buys, but why they buy and how to retain them.
Operations
Inventory & Operations Analytics
Manage material demand, reduce stock-outs, achieve just-in-time inventory levels, improve inventory turns, and monitor vendor on-time delivery performance — all from a single live dashboard.
ERP Integration
Connects to Your Existing ERP & Data Sources
Works with NetSuite, Business Central, Dynamics NAV, Sage, Epicor, and others — combining ERP, CRM, POS, project management, and eCommerce data into one unified datacube.
Industries
Retail, Manufacturing & Project Services
Industry-specific analytics packages for retail and fashion (campaign ROI, customer acquisition), manufacturing (supply chain, production), and project services (resource utilization, project profitability).
Our Analytics
Performance, Growth & Profit
Discover the impact our solutions can have on your business.
eMazzanti Technologies has several out-of-the box solutions that deliver the analytics and insight your organization needs to measure and monitor performance, growth, and profit in core areas such as sales, marketing, customer service, operations, and finance.
Our solutions are configurable and can be deployed in weeks, not months. And, because we have experience working with many ERP Systems, like Netsuite, Microsoft Business Central / Navision, Sage, Epicor, and many others, we know how to efficiently extract your data so we can make it come alive with our analytics.
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Our Results
By utilizing our solutions, you’ll see
instant results in the following areas.
Sales & Marketing
Finance
Customer Service
Operations
Our Work
Explore some of the business-critical questions ePower Analytics can help answer.
Is customer order size shrinking or expanding?
What impact does this have on your operations?
How has the mix of your business changed overtime?
How is your financial performance relative to historical years and budget or forecast?
Comparison
ePower Analytics vs. Custom In-House Power BI vs. Spreadsheet Reporting
Spreadsheets are manual and always stale. Building Power BI from scratch takes months and requires rare expertise. ePower Analytics delivers production-ready ERP-connected dashboards in weeks — for as little as $1 per user per day.
| Feature | Custom In-House Power BI Build |
Recommended ePower Analytics |
Spreadsheet Reporting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Dashboard — Weeks, Not Months | ✕ 3–12 months for production-quality dashboards — high BI developer cost |
✓ Out-of-the-box solution deployed in weeks — pre-built datacube connects to your ERP data |
✕ No true dashboard — manual refresh, always hours or days out of date |
| ERP Integration — Business Central, NetSuite, Sage, Epicor | ~ Custom connectors built from scratch — each ERP requires separate development |
✓ Pre-built integrations for Business Central, NetSuite, Sage, Epicor & more — ready on day one |
✕ Manual ERP data export — error-prone and time-consuming |
| Sales, Finance, Operations & Customer Dashboards — Included | ~ Built one by one — each dashboard adds cost and development time |
✓ All four business areas covered out of the box — answers 90%+ of daily reporting questions |
✕ Separate spreadsheet per function — no unified view |
| Automated Daily Data Refresh — No Manual Updates | ~ Refresh logic must be custom-built — often delayed or unreliable |
✓ Automatic refresh at minimum once per day — or on your schedule, with no admin effort |
✕ Manual — someone must pull, clean, and update the data every time |
| Industry-Specific Analytics — Retail, Manufacturing, Project Services | ✕ Generic build — industry metrics require additional scoping and development |
✓ Pre-built industry packages — retail/fashion KPIs, manufacturing supply chain, project profitability |
✕ Generic templates only — no industry intelligence built in |
| Combined ERP + CRM + POS + eCommerce Data in One View | ~ Multi-source integration possible — complex and expensive to build and maintain |
✓ Agnostic data model combines ERP, CRM, POS, project & eCommerce data automatically |
✕ Impossible at scale — data lives in isolated silos |
| Uncovers Hidden Insights — Customer Buying Patterns & Trends | ~ Possible with advanced modeling — requires Power BI and data science expertise |
✓ Pre-built models surface insights on customer behavior, campaign ROI, and market penetration |
✕ No analytical depth — results depend entirely on manual interpretation |
| Accessible on Any Device — Desktop, Tablet, Phone | ~ Mobile support must be designed separately — often skipped in custom builds |
✓ Full Power BI responsive experience across desktop, tablet & phone — no extra work needed |
✕ Spreadsheets are difficult to use on mobile — not designed for field access |
| Built & Supported by eMazzanti — 20+ Years ERP Experience | ✕ Requires internal BI team or expensive agency — ongoing maintenance adds cost |
✓ eMazzanti handles deployment, ERP connection, customization & ongoing support — starting at $1/user/day |
✕ Entirely self-maintained — no expert guidance or structured analytics roadmap |
✓ Included · ~ Partial or situational · ✕ Not included
ePower Analytics is priced from $1 per user per day for teams of 26 or more users. Solutions are configurable and deployed in weeks, not months. eMazzanti integrates with NetSuite, Microsoft Business Central, Dynamics NAV, Sage, Epicor, and other ERP systems — contact eMazzanti to discuss your specific data sources and analytics requirements.
ePower Analytics forRetail, Manufacturing and Project Services
Retail/Fashion
Manufacturing
Project Services
Delloite
- “ … In a recent survey of retail CFOs and finance executives:
- 88% said they are rethinking metrics to accurately align to cross-channel operations
- Just 32% said their internal metrics ‘really align’ with how they measure themselves externally
- Only 8% believe their metrics are properly positioned to address changes in the modern retail environment
If today’s metrics aren’t painting an accurate picture of the businesses we’re trying to measure, then the logical move is to change our perspective. Companies should make fundamental changes to how they define success and to what they measure.”
Charlotte Hollihan
“While sale revenues are integral (entirely) to keep your brand alive, they are not necessarily the best way to keep an operation going in the long term. A short term boost in sales doesn’t necessarily create long term success… As a brand, there are two integral things that need to be thought about upfront, and continually revisited along the process.
- The first is who is your target customer, and what are their wants, needs and desires?
- The second is, who does your brand want to be in the market, and what does it stand for?
Therefore success should be measured only by how well you reach and please your end customer, and how well you are communicating your brand messages. Nothing more, nothing less. All the rest will follow.”
McKinsey
- “ … In a recent survey of Manufacturing CFOs and finance executives:
- 45% are focusing on data visualization throughout the entire supply chain to improve performance
- 44%, used remote work as a hybrid model with some days in the office and some days remote moving forward
- 35% claim automation using robotics as an area of focus
- Most claim that with the advent of e-commerce, Turning to online sales allowed many manufacturers to build tools that provided access to their products, without the need of their traditional distributor or client.
Such moves by manufacturers and suppliers will not disappear. It provides protection from another sudden shock, like a pandemic, while also expanding on the company’s customer base. ”
Mayer Hoffman McCann
“… Ongoing monitoring of KPIs against targets helps companies to analyze performance and provide a measurable path to successful execution of [pandemic] recovery strategy …
Visibility into Prospecting & New Business – key considerations will be to gauge new opportunities and changes in customer demand. If the company has used digital tools to assist in prospecting new business and maintaining customer relationships, such as a customer relationship management system (CRM), it is time to consider investing time and resources into cultivating those relationships. Regardless of whether the company is leveraging digital tools, a driver-based sales plan is critical to any organization, and especially to manufacturing companies. Sales forecasts may come up short due to a number of factors, including customer order cuts, pricing negotiations, or other considerations. Understanding these root-causes is especially vital to manufacturing companies given volume planning can affect resourcing and relevant cost considerations for operations.
Production, Warehousing, and Shipping Interplay – as supply chains recover from a fractured state, your organization will have to implement the best strategy in terms of supply chain and fulfillment optimization. Tracking real-time core metrics across purchasing, production, and warehousing intertwined with targets and relevant financial impacts can pinpoint areas of opportunity that supply chain leaders can proactively optimize operations. From raw materials to finished goods, a more granular view of inventory turns and days on-hand can help reduce the inefficiency of tying up cash in slow-moving or excess inventory on an ongoing basis.
Tracking Safety & Wellness of Employees – businesses need to prioritize the health and safety of their employees in this business landscape … [thus] employee-related KPIs are critical to maintaining the organization’s overall wellness and engagement. As such, organizations should consider tracking employee departures and turnover by functional areas to help identify if any additional resources need to be deployed to maintain talent within the company.”
McKinsey
“… Estimates suggest that 62 percent of employed Americans worked at home during the [Pandemic], compared with about 25 percent a couple of years ago. … According to [our] research:
- 80% of people questioned report that they enjoy working from home
- 41% say that they are more productive than they had been before
- 28% indicate that they are as productive
Many employees liberated from long commutes and travel have found more productive ways to spend that time, enjoyed greater flexibility in balancing their personal and professional lives, and decided that they prefer to work from home rather than the office. Many organizations think they can access new pools of talent with fewer locational constraints, adopt innovative processes to boost productivity, create an even stronger culture, and significantly reduce real-estate costs.”
MIT Sloan
“Will dispersed, distributed, and remote workforces become the post-pandemic new normal? … Much clearer is how misleading and unhelpful legacy metrics are for assessing work-from-home performance. Pre-[pandemic] workplace analytics are no longer fit for purpose. They don’t capture the disjointed realities of digital workflows. … Productivity now demands more aggressive and actionable measures. Recalibrating key performance indicators (KPIs) is essential to ensuring that remote work actually works.
… Increasingly, monitoring and measuring morale — qualitatively, as well as quantitatively — matters. But soft skills deserve hard numbers, too. Emergent post-pandemic dashboards embrace affective metrics as firmly and fairly as effective ones. That means that leading companies must renovate their data-driven dashboards to better inspire people and project teams and promote positive outcomes. They must automatically capture and analyze, and explicitly communicate, their high-performance criteria. The most important takeaway: High-performance management depends on high-performance measurement. The digital future of one depends on the digital future of the other.
[So] to cultivate healthy returns from a healthy — if remote and distributed — workforce requires leaders to treat data and analytics as nutrients for people, not just fuel for economic growth. That means leaders need to do the following:
- Commit to a continuous feedback culture. … Performance management platforms must facilitate ongoing feedback on professional progress, growth, and development opportunities.
- Commit to clarity between assessment and development. Managers should make clear when feedback targets performance assessment versus cultivating new capabilities and skills.
- Commit to transparency. Post-pandemic performance management credibility and trustworthiness depend on transparency. … This requires significant shifts in data governance.”
So, what can eMazzanti do to help my Brand?
Retail/Fashion
Manufacturing
Project Services
- Quantification of Campaign Messaging and Delivery (Costs vs Returns)
- Quantification of Digital Customer Acquisition and Retention (Costs vs Returns)
- Quantification of Brand Awareness, Advocacy, and Loyalty Membership (Costs vs Returns)
- Quantification of Market Penetration for Market Segment and Population (Actual vs Budgeted)
- …and many more (including Your own Personalizations)
- Quantification of Prospecting Campaign Messaging and Delivery (Costs vs Returns)
- Quantification of Customer Loyalty and Trends(Costs vs Returns)
- Quantification of Resourcing for Operations (Costs vs Returns)
- Quantification of Supply Chain across Purchasing, Production, and Warehousing (Actual vs Budgeted)
- Quantification of Market Penetration for Market Segment and Population (Actual vs Budgeted)
- Quantification of Employee Resources across Qualification, Health, Performance
- … and many more (including Your own Personalizations)
- Qualify and Quantify Resource Progress
- Qualify and Quantify Resource Growth and Education
- Qualify and Quantify Resource Capabilities and Skills
- Qualify and Quantify Resource Inspiration
- Qualify and Quantify Resource Trustworthiness and Transparency
- And Much More
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*based on the (26 – Unlimited) user category
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ePower Analytics FAQs
What is Microsoft Power BI and how does it help businesses make better decisions?
Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics platform that connects to your data sources — ERP systems, CRM, financial software, POS, eCommerce — and transforms raw data into interactive dashboards and visualizations that update automatically. Instead of waiting for weekly spreadsheet reports, decision-makers get a real-time view of sales performance, inventory levels, financial results, and customer behavior at any time, on any device. Power BI eliminates the gap between data that exists in your systems and insights that actually reach the people who need to act on them, making it one of the most widely adopted business intelligence tools for mid-market companies today.
Why are spreadsheets no longer enough for business analytics and reporting?
Spreadsheets work well for small datasets and simple calculations, but they break down when data comes from multiple systems, needs to be shared across teams, or must be updated frequently. Manual consolidation creates errors, delays, and version control problems — different people working from different exports of the same data often reach different conclusions. As businesses grow, the time spent building and maintaining spreadsheet reports increases while confidence in the numbers decreases. Business intelligence platforms solve this by connecting directly to source systems, automating data refresh, and presenting a single shared version of the truth that everyone in the organization can access and trust.
What KPIs should a retail or manufacturing business be tracking in a business intelligence dashboard?
The most critical KPIs depend on the business model, but retail and manufacturing companies consistently benefit from tracking sales performance versus goals by product, region, and salesperson; gross margin by product line and customer; inventory turns and days-on-hand to identify slow-moving stock; accounts receivable aging and DSO (days sales outstanding) to monitor cash flow; customer order trends including order size, frequency, and returns; and vendor on-time delivery performance. Beyond these operational metrics, leading businesses are increasingly measuring digital acquisition costs, customer loyalty and retention rates, and campaign return on investment — metrics that reveal the long-term health of the business rather than just the current period's results.
How long does it take to implement a business intelligence solution for a mid-sized company?
Implementation time depends on the number of data sources being connected, the quality and structure of the underlying data, and the complexity of the dashboards being built. For organizations with a well-maintained ERP and a defined set of reporting needs, out-of-the-box analytics solutions can be deployed and delivering value within weeks rather than months. The longest part of most BI implementations is not the technology configuration — it is agreeing on which metrics matter, where the data lives, and how to handle discrepancies between systems. Organizations that begin with a focused scope (sales and finance dashboards first, then operations) consistently achieve faster time-to-value than those that attempt to build everything at once.
What is ePower Analytics and what ERP systems does it connect to?
ePower Analytics is eMazzanti Technologies' out-of-the-box business intelligence solution built on the Microsoft Power BI platform. It delivers pre-built analytics across sales, marketing, finance, customer service, and operations — configured to answer the business-critical questions that most mid-market companies face, without requiring months of custom development. ePower Analytics connects agnostically to a wide range of ERP systems including Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Navision, NetSuite, Sage, Epicor, and others, as well as POS, CRM, project management, and eCommerce data sources. Because eMazzanti has experience extracting data from each of these systems, implementations typically complete in weeks rather than months.
How is ePower Analytics different from building custom Power BI reports in-house?
Building Power BI reports from scratch requires data modeling expertise, knowledge of your ERP's data structure, and significant time to design and validate each dashboard — typically months of work before any business user sees a usable result. ePower Analytics starts from a library of pre-built analytics developed over 20 years of eMazzanti client engagements, covering the questions that retail, manufacturing, and project services organizations most commonly need to answer. This means the core dashboards are configured and validated from day one, and customization is additive rather than foundational. The result is a functional analytics environment in weeks, at a starting cost of approximately $1 per user per day — significantly faster and lower-risk than a ground-up development approach.
What specific business questions can ePower Analytics help a retail or fashion company answer?
For retail and fashion companies, ePower Analytics delivers both traditional performance metrics and the digital-era metrics that increasingly determine long-term success. Traditional metrics include sales and margin performance by product, channel, location, and period; inventory turns and sell-through rates; and customer purchasing patterns and return behavior. Digital-era metrics — which most retail analytics tools do not surface — include quantification of digital customer acquisition and retention costs versus returns, campaign messaging effectiveness, brand loyalty membership value, and market penetration by segment against budget. These metrics answer the question of not just what sold, but why customers buy and what it actually costs to acquire and retain them.
Can ePower Analytics help manufacturing companies monitor supply chain and operations performance?
Yes. ePower Analytics for manufacturing tracks the full supply chain from purchasing and production through warehousing and distribution, giving operations teams real-time visibility into where inventory is, where delays are occurring, and where costs are running against budget. Specific capabilities include monitoring vendor on-time delivery performance, tracking inventory turns and days-on-hand by SKU and location, measuring production efficiency and resource utilization, and flagging stock-outs before they affect customer orders. eMazzanti also configures manufacturing dashboards to track the KPIs identified as most relevant for post-pandemic recovery and supply chain resilience — including the interplay between production scheduling, warehousing capacity, and shipping performance that CFOs and operations leaders need to optimize simultaneously. patterns, and configures conversation intelligence tools that analyze customer calls to surface coaching opportunities. The goal is to give managers the information they need to make proactive decisions rather than discovering performance issues at month-end.
