Integrating Dynamic Budgets with Business Central Insights
Extend Dynamic Budgets with Business Central Insights Power BI reporting, dimensional analysis, cubes, and integrated financial statements.
Empower Your Financial Reporting with Dynamic Budgets & Business Central Insights
Dynamic Budgets is a modern financial planning platform designed to help organizations create flexible, multi-dimensional budgets, enabling smarter forecasting, scenario planning, and operational alignment. By embracing attribute-driven budgeting and deep analytical capabilities, Dynamic Budgets empowers finance teams to gain real insight into performance drivers.
At the same time, effective budget reporting and security are critical to maintaining confidence in financial decisions. Accurate reporting ensures budgets translate into tangible business outcomes, and robust security makes sure sensitive financial data stays protected, with role-based access controls and data governance baked into every layer of analytics.
When you combine Dynamic Budgets with Business Central Insights (BCI), particularly the Finance Insights Power BI app, you unlock a powerful end-to-end reporting experience that not only reflects detailed budget performance but also supports flexible analysis by any business dimension or attribute your organization cares about.
In short, BCI brings your budgets to life, turning static data into interactive insights for every stakeholder, while delivering secure, governed reporting that finance teams can trust.
How Finance Insights Supports Dynamic Budgets
1. Budget Attributes
Budget Attributes are advanced reporting tags that extend traditional budgets by associating each budget line with a combination of:
a G/L Account, and
one or more Business Central financial dimensions (e.g., Department, Project, Region).
These attributes allow Dynamic Budgets to be far more granular and analytical than static account-only budgets.
Finance Insights not only supports these custom Dynamic Budget attributes but fully integrates them into reporting models.
This means you can:
Perform budget vs actual analysis by any attribute you define,
Slice and filter financial results by business-specific tags, and
Drive clarity into what truly impacts performance.
By leveraging these rich attributes directly in Power BI, finance teams can monitor, compare, and optimize budgets across organizational structures with precision.
2. Multi-Dimensional Analysis
True financial insight requires going beyond single-axis reports. With Finance Insights, you can explore data across multiple dimensions, including any dimension defined in Business Central, with powerful hierarchical reporting.
Key benefits include:
Analyze across multiple dimensions simultaneously: slice financial performance by department, project, region, customer group, or any combination your business uses.
Use dimension hierarchies: view high-level roll-ups or drill into detailed breakdowns (e.g., Region → Sub-Region → City) seamlessly.
Totaling and custom grouping: aggregate results using Business Central’s dimension totals or custom groupings defined by your team.
This multi-dimensional flexibility ensures that Dynamic Budgets users aren’t limited to flat reports, they can view performance through any analytical lens needed.
More information: https://businesscentralinsights.com/analyze-data-by-dimensions
3. Cubes – Ad-Hoc Analysis Across Any Parameter
Cube reports in Finance Insights take analytical freedom to the next level. Designed for flexible, matrix-style exploration, these allow you to:
Dynamically define rows, columns and measures without being tied to fixed layouts,
Combine any field or parameter for deep ad-hoc analysis, and
Save and re-use analytical views tailored to your budgeting reviews.
For Dynamic Budgets customers, cubes are especially valuable because they empower business users to explore relationships between budgets, actuals, and attributes with minimal support, making it easy to answer questions like:
“Show budget vs actual by business unit and project, broken down by month and dimension hierarchy.”
This level of self-service analysis drives deeper insights and reduces cycle time for financial reviews.
More information: https://businesscentralinsights.com/cubes
4. Financial Reporting Row Definitions (Integrated into Our Reporting Models)
Finance Insights brings your financial statements into Power BI using row definitions directly from Business Central, transforming static reports like balance sheets and income statements into interactive, filterable visuals.
Benefits for Dynamic Budgets customers include:
Familiar financial report structures that map directly to your ERP configuration.
Ability to analyze budget vs actual performance across any dimension, including custom attributes from Dynamic Budgets.
Interactive filtering, drill-down, and slicing, enabling finance teams to shift instantly between overview and detail, by period, company, or dimension.
By integrating row definitions into BCI’s semantic model, your financial reporting aligns seamlessly with your budgeting logic, giving stakeholders confidence that what they see in Power BI reflects true budget structure and financial outcomes.
More information: https://businesscentralinsights.com/financial-reporting
Summary
By combining Dynamic Budgets with Business Central Insights – Finance Insights, organizations get:
Rich analytical power across custom budget attributes,
True multi-dimensional insight with hierarchical structures,
Flexible ad-hoc analysis through cube reports, and
Interactive financial reporting aligned to real budgets and actuals.
Together, these capabilities help finance teams understand, monitor and act on budget performance, driving better decisions with more confidence and control.