Data Management and write-back
Capture data and information from the front-line using write-back in Power BI
You can't manage what you can't measure!
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There are many scenarios where you need to fast collect data and information from the organization for planning, reporting, and other purposes.
The data you have in your ERP system, and other systems, are simply not enough. You need to enrich your data in your Power BI models, warehouse and OneLake with manually entered data from end-users.
Aimplan supports this seamlessly through built-in write-back capabilities, allowing users to input data directly into Power BI reports and dashboards. This means no external tools, no spreadsheets—just real-time, governed data capture where and when it's needed. And you always have access to your data from Power BI or other tools.
Enable write-back in Power BI
Measure what matters!
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You must be able to measure also the data you can't find in your existing ERP system and other data sources. Enable your organization to define objectives and goals and measure these goals. Even if the measures are not available in your existing data sources.
With write-back integrated directly into Power BI through Aimplan, teams can log performance data, initiative updates, and goal-tracking information directly in their dashboards. This enables organizations to continuously capture important KPIs and result data to measure progress and goal fulfillment. And have this data live at your fingertips direct in Power BI reports, dashboards and apps.
Production reporting without spreadsheets
Many companies run much of their day-to-day production reporting using spreadsheets. Collecting data from different departments, teams and machines is a cumbersome manual process when users in the factory or production plant enter data into spreadsheets.
The data is then often copied-and-pasted to some reporting database for reporting. With Aimplan’s write-back functionality built into Power BI, this entire process becomes streamlined and automated. Users can input production metrics, shift-level data, or maintenance updates directly into structured forms embedded in dashboards. Everyone can instantly see the results, and all production data is centralized, validated, and always up to date.
Features highlights
Highly configurable Power BI data entry grid
Aimplan enables write-back in Power BI with customizable, Excel-like forms. Users can input and edit data directly in reports, with changes saved in real time to a central database—removing the need for spreadsheets and manual updates.
Security and data access
Aimplan implements single sign-on with M365/Office365 and Azure AD to grant user access. Combine the data access rules maintained in Aimplan with the data access functionallity in Power BI. I.e. manage in Aimplan for example which user can access and plan which project, product, market or cost center.
Audit trail of updates
All updates to planning models and forecast data is logged and under control. You can see who has changed what data, and at what point in time. This also includes events such as user logging in, out etc.
Update the data warehouse or OneLake with manual data and input
Have you built an awesome data warehouse but you miss some key important data from end-users? It can be 'measure-data' such as quantities and volumes but also 'dimension-data' such as attributes or dimensional structures. Or you maybe need to delegate to users to perform manual cleansing of data to correct errors.
With Aimplan, write-back allows business users to directly update this data from Power BI. Manual input flows straight into your warehouse—ensuring that even user-generated data is integrated, validated, and instantly available for analysis.
Master data management
​​Most of your master data is probably managed and maintained within your ERP system. But there are normally key-important master data that cannot be updated and maintained directly in your systems. For example 'translation-tables' where article groups, or accounts, or customer segments etc. are 'mapped' to some other structure or dimension.
You want to have this data in a central database and you want to have control of this data. Instead of using spreadsheets, you can use Aimplan’s embedded write-back functionality to assign users the ability to manage and maintain this data directly in Power BI and their browser—without losing governance or visibility.
Features highlights
Embed in MS Teams and Sharepoint
Power BI, and therefore also Aimplan can easily be integrated into Sharepoint and Microsoft Teams. This provides a great user experience combining reporting and planning direct from within these collaboration tools.
Easy to get started
Aimplan is a Saas service in the cloud. No servers, no installations and you reuse your existing Power BI Datasets. You can get going within hours, not weeks or month.
Full access to your data
Independent of the deployment model you always have access to your data stored by Aimplan. We never lock your data in. You have full access and can easily get access from different tools and other systems in a secure way.