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Dynamics 365 AI - Gain Financial Insights in Real-time

21-08-2023
While digitalization offers many benefits, it also poses several challenges for companies.

By utilizing Dynamics 365 Finance, organizations can enjoy many benefits, such as streamlining their financial processes, reducing manual errors, and improving visibility into their financial performance. With its advanced reporting and analytics features, businesses can make informed decisions.

Challenges arising during the digitalization

Digitalization presents several challenges for organizations, including adapting existing processes and systems, addressing employee resistance to change, ensuring data privacy and security, and navigating complex technological landscapes. Additionally, challenges may be related to the cost of implementing new technologies, finding skilled personnel to manage and maintain digital systems, and keeping pace with rapidly evolving digital trends. Effective digitalization strategies require careful planning, a willingness to embrace change, and a commitment to ongoing learning and adaptation.

Bart van Strijen

Partner,Microsoft Business Solutions

KPMG Switzerland

Blog Author Didier Boekraad
Didier Boekraad

KPMG Switzerland

Dynamics 365 – Finance Insights

In the modern business landscape, finance professionals face unprecedented challenges in managing financial processes. These challenges include cash flow management, financial reporting accuracy, and timely decision-making, all of which are essential for the success of any business. However, the emergence of D365 AI-Finance Insights is changing the game by providing powerful tools that leverage machine learning and predictive analytics to provide deep insights into financial data. 

D365 AI-Finance Insights is an artificial intelligence-powered solution that leverages machine learning and predictive analytics to provide deep insights into financial data. This solution can help businesses to streamline their finance processes and make more informed decisions based on data.

Benefits of using D365 – Finance insights

One of the critical benefits of D365 AI-Finance Insights is its ability to improve cash flow management. In our interactions with numerous clients, we could identify recurring challenges in cash flow analysis. Firstly, the complex task of allocating transactions often hides the seamless placement of transactions into their proper cash flow areas. Secondly, compounded by the occasional deferred recording of transactions, which can accidentally lead to gaps within the cash flow reporting. By analyzing historical financial data, this solution can predict future cash flow patterns, identify cash flow bottlenecks, and provide suggestions on how to optimize cash flow. This can help businesses make better investment decisions, manage debt, and prioritize expenses.

Another challenge that D365 AI-Finance Insights can help address is financial reporting accuracy. Traditional manual methods of financial reporting are time-consuming and prone to errors. With D365 AI-Finance Insights, financial (economic) data is automatically collected, processed, and analyzed, reducing the risk of errors and ensuring accurate reporting. This can save time and reduce the risk of financial penalties.

D365 AI-Finance Insights can also help businesses make more informed decisions by providing timely and accurate financial data. The solution can generate real-time insights into key financial metrics, such as revenue, expenses, and profit margins. This can help finance professionals identify trends, make predictions, and identify areas for improvement. 

Overall, D365 AI-Finance Insights can provide numerous benefits to businesses facing financial challenges. By leveraging the power of AI and machine learning, this solution can help businesses to streamline their finance processes, improve cash flow management, and make more informed decisions based on accurate and timely financial data. Nevertheless, it is essential to mention that a clean database is crucial for the optimal use of this feature. The more data the System has available, the better it can capture and generalize these patterns to make accurate predictions or decisions.

Summary of the Benefits

  • Dynamics 365 Finance provides real-time visibility into financial performance, enabling organizations to quickly identify areas of strength and weakness and make informed decisions to improve their financial outcomes.
  • Dynamics 365 Finance enables organizations to create accurate budgets and forecasts, providing a clear view of expected financial performance and helping organizations make informed decisions about resource allocation.
  • Dynamics 365 Finance delivers increased transparency and accountability in financial operations, enabling organizations to monitor and control financial performance and ensure compliance with financial regulations.
  • Dynamics 365 Finance offers robust reporting and analytics capabilities, enabling organizations to gain insights into their financial performance and make informed decisions to improve their financial outcomes.
  • Dynamics 365 Finance streamlines financial processes, reducing manual errors and improving the efficiency of financial operations. This can help organizations save time, reduce costs, and increase their financial performance.

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