Dynamics 365 includes built-in reporting for each module, dashboards and charts in the CRM apps, financial and operational reports in Business Central and Finance & Operations, plus Power BI integration for deeper analysis. Where it falls short is combining that data with numbers from systems Dynamics 365 doesn't touch, which still usually means someone exporting and stitching things together by hand.
Dynamics 365 Business Central is the current name for what used to be Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Navision, and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations grew out of Dynamics AX, Axapta. If you're searching for Navision reporting or Axapta reports, that functionality didn't disappear, it carried forward into Business Central and Finance & Operations under the new names, along with most of the reporting concepts longtime users already know.
Both products can produce standard financial statements, custom report layouts, and scheduled exports on their own. Where the built-in tools stop is anything that needs to sit alongside data from a system Dynamics 365 doesn't own: a separate point-of-sale platform, a warehouse system, a different business unit running something else entirely.
If a standard report means someone exports it from Dynamics 365 and emails it around every week, we automate the delivery, pulled straight from the system and sent on schedule, so that export stops being someone's Tuesday-morning task.
When the numbers people actually check live partly in Dynamics 365 and partly somewhere else, a warehouse system, a separate POS, a different business unit's software, we build the pipeline that combines both into one place instead of two reports someone reconciles by hand.
Tell us what's getting stitched together by hand right now and we'll look at whether it can run on its own.
Tell us what the report needs to show and where the rest of the data lives if it's not all in Dynamics 365. We'll look at what can run automatically versus what genuinely needs a person. And if reporting isn't actually the drag on your team, we're glad to look at whatever else is.
Let's talk →Yes. Each module includes its own reporting: dashboards and charts in the CRM apps, financial and operational reports in Business Central and Finance & Operations, and native Power BI integration for more involved analysis across the data.
Functionally, yes. Navision was renamed Dynamics 365 Business Central, and the reporting concepts and much of the functionality carried forward under the new name rather than being replaced.
Axapta became Dynamics AX, which Microsoft then evolved into Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. The reporting tools moved forward with it, under a different name than longtime users might be searching for.
Standard reports generally can, through Business Central's or Power BI's own scheduling options. Custom reports that pull together data from more than one system, or need specific formatting logic, usually need that automation built rather than configured from a settings screen.
Yes, through the platform's own report designer tools or by building it in Power BI against the underlying data. How far that gets you on its own depends on how much the report needs to combine data from outside Dynamics 365 itself.