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Analytics for LS Central is a Business Intelligence solution for LS Central that gives you access to all the data analysis power and reporting options you need – with none of the complications attached to building your own data warehouse.
You can download Analytics free of charge, and use as is, or as a base for your data warehouse and Business Intelligence environment.
Analytics – Data Warehouse contains metadata tables, staging tables, the dimensional model consisting of dimension and fact tables organized into a star schema, and stored procedures.
Analytics – Analytics is a collection of Power BI reports that analyze and visualize data from the data warehouse. Currently, LS Retail offers Power BI templates for Sales and Inventory, each with a collection of reports.
Analytics offers an extension for the Hotels for LS Central extension, including a special report template for Hotels.
Analytics is available for LS Nav and LS Central on-premises from version 8.4 to the latest version, and for LS Central in cloud (SaaS) on the latest version from version 17.0.
The following setup scenarios are supported for the different LS Central platforms:
| LS Central | Azure Data Factory | Analytics Data Warehouse |
| On-Premises | Azure | Azure |
| On-Premises | Azure | On-Premises |
| SaaS | Azure | Azure |
Any scenario where Azure Data Factory is not used is not supported.
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