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Imagine a world where financial reporting in Dynamics 365 Finance isn’t confined to the native experience. What if we could seamlessly connect the Financial Reporting Data Mart to other technologies in the Microsoft stack—like Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI—to unlock richer, faster, and more scalable insights to a wider audience?

Why This Matters:

• Modern Data Architecture: Many organizations are already leveraging Synapse and Power BI for enterprise-wide analytics. Integrating the Data Mart directly into these platforms would align financial reporting with broader data strategies.
• Performance & Scalability: Offloading reporting workloads from F&O to Synapse could improve performance and reduce load on transactional systems.
• Advanced Analytics: Enable predictive modeling, trend analysis, and AI-powered insights using Synapse and Power BI—going beyond static financial reports.
• Security & Governance: Use Azure’s built-in security and data governance tools to manage financial data more effectively.

Proposed Solution:

Expose the Financial Reporting Data Mart via a secure, read-only endpoint (e.g., Azure SQL or Synapse Link) that can be queried directly from Synapse or Power BI. This would allow BI teams to build dashboards and reports without needing to log into F&O or rely on native report builders.

Call to Action:

Let’s bring financial data into the modern analytics ecosystem. Vote for this idea if you believe financial reporting should be as flexible and powerful as the rest of your data stack!

Further discussed in the D365 Community here: https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=43f29948-9911-47b9-8e63-3929bf23155a