Which is Better, BI or MS CRM Dynamics 365?

 MS CRM Dynamics 365 and BI are the two most effective and powerful business software’s. Many competitive businesses are appreciative of them. The Dynamics CRM consultants help in using the software which aids customers with configuring CRM solutions. The major tasks include the sales, customer services departments and marketing departments in customer relationship management.  People are often confused about which software either Power BU or MS CRM Dynamic 365 is better, this article would help you in deciding the best business software. 

What is Power BI?

Power BI is Microsoft’s solution for creating low code business applications, as it’s a data analytics arm of the Power Platform. The advanced business intelligence reporting abilities are created as Power BI consents business users to generate their interactive dashboards. Further, data like member renewal rate, average member engagement score, and so much more could be found on Cobalt’s Power BI dashboards. Power BI dashboards could be to fit your objectives, like D365 dashboards, a handful of Power BI dashboards are designed to fit the underlying needs of organizations. Power BI dashboards could be considered a more advanced and effective version of Dynamics 365 dashboards by alliances at the risk of oversimplification. If you are looking for interactional information for executives, then Power BI dashboards would be recommended. 

What is Dynamics 365?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is where Cobalt's association management software (AMS) is built. If you are looking to organise the visuals that can be embedded into a dashboard, then one might consider looking at Dynamics. To correspond to the needs of businesses Cobalt has put together D365 dashboards. Some of the information like membership applications that need approval, dues by renewal status, and memberships by member type are the dashboards which are easy-to-read visuals. The different visuals, when required, could effortlessly be configured by these dashboards. In D365, when staff members login to the system they can access the updated dashboard according to their daily role, which is why they are also persona-based. To illustrate it further, the application which needs reviewing and upcoming renewal data by association membership staff may access total membership numbers. So, the number of people registered for the annual meeting or event revenue by meeting type might be accessed by events staff when they login to the system. 

Power BI Vs Dynamics 365

There are several differences between the Power BI and Dynamics 365 which are mentioned below. 

Implications

Power BI dashboards offer customer service trends, sales, and marketing not only within months and years but in real-time, as it supports more complex and context-based scenarios. To illustrate it further, tweets about your product/service, going viral or aggregating the sentiment for recent posts could all be reflected through social media campaigns via Power BI dashboards. Based on the current datasets, it can also predict the future trends. On the other hand, everyday customer service teams, marketing, and sales, are reflected in the everyday activities of Dynamics 365 dashboards.

Visuals

Power BI includes combo charts, funnel charts, doughnut charts, area charts, bar and column charts, which are included in the most popular visuals accessible to Power BI. One could have as many visuals as possible and charts in the Power BI dashboard. On the other hand, Microsoft Dynamics could exist with funnel, a bar graph, a pie graph, and a stack bar graph the present business data in a variety of ways mostly 6 visuals per dashboard in max. 

Sharing Ability

Both with Microsoft Office 365 accounts and Power BI, one could be shared with the Power BI dashboards. But D365 could be shared with CRM accounts only. 

Which one is Better?

Power BI has the ability for complex functions and capacity. While the Dynamics CRM has the capacity for a simpler function. Both are effective as the D365 is a bit older software. Power BI and Dynamics CRM both are best, hence they could be used as per one’s business requirement.