Although Microsoft marketing materials identify Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting as though it were a separate module within NAV, it's difficult to physically identify it as such. Most of the components used for BI and reporting purposes are (appropriately) scattered throughout various application areas. In the words of one Microsoft document, Business Intelligence is a strategy, not a product. Functions within NAV that support a BI strategy include the following:

• Standard reports - distributed ready-to-use by end users
• Account schedules and analysis reports - a specialized report writer for General Ledger data
• Query, XMLport and Report designers - developer tools to support the creation of a wide variety of report formats, charts, and XML and CSV files
• Analysis by dimensions - a capability embedded in many of the other tools
• Interfaces into Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office 365 including Excel-communications of data either into NAV or out of NAV
• RDLC report viewer - provides the ability to present NAV data in a variety of textual and graphic formats, including user interactive capabilities
• Interface capabilities such as DotNet interoperability and web services - technologies to support interfaces between NAV 2017 and external software products
• NAV 2017 has standard packages for Power BI, both integrated on the role center as well as dashboards