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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016

By : Belinda Allen, Polino
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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016

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By: Belinda Allen, Polino

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a complete ERP solution that is extremely beneficial for small to midsize organizations in helping them grow exponentially. The book shows you in detail how to build great-looking dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP that enhance a company’s decision-making processes. This guide will take you from the basics of setting up and deploying to creating secure, refreshable Excel reports. Using a whole host of tools available within Microsoft Dynamics GP and Excel, this tutorial will show you how to visualize your data using simple conditional formatting techniques and easy-to-read charts, and allow you to make your data interactive with slicers. We will also cover core topics such as Business Analyzer, Microsoft SQL Reporting services reports, BI360, and more. You will find out to use Power BI, share and refresh data and dashboards in Power BI, and use Power BI Query Editor. By the end of this book, you will have all the information required to build interactive dashboards using Dynamics GP.
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Getting to know the Q&A feature

The Q&A feature on the Power BI service allows users to ask Power BI questions in natural language about the data in the datasets. The results will be displayed in a visual, which can be pinned to the dashboard. This feature takes advantage of the technology from Bing, Microsoft's search engine.

The Q&A feature uses the column names as key words for the searches. This enables the designer of the reports and dashboards to customize data to include wording that is natural in your own organization. If you call your customers clients, let the column name be clients. The dashboard consumers will not always be GP users, meaning they will not think to use the word customers; they'll enter Show Gross Margin by Client and not Show Gross Margin by Customer.

Let's give it a try by performing the following steps:

  1. Open the AP Information dashboard we created. You'll notice that in the top-right corner of the dashboard is the Ask a question...

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