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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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What is Jet and why should I use it?


Jet Express for Excel is not so much of a report writer, but rather a special tool box for Excel. This toolbox can enable you to not only access your GP data, but also extract exactly what you want from GP. This means you can use native Excel tools to create financial and operational statements. A great example of getting exactly the data you want would be the net change of a general ledger account for a certain period. You can set it so that the period is hard coded in the formula or you can have an Excel field for the period that you reference. This means you do not have to change every formula if the period changes. You can also set your reports to not show accounts if the balance is zero. Yes, you can do these things in Excel, but it is much easier with the Excel add-on from Jet. Using Jet makes it easier to create the report, and certainly makes it easier for the person consuming the report.

As mentioned earlier, Jet Express for Excel can be used...

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