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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Integration with Power BI


Power BI is a business analytical tool that can take your reports and dashboards to the next level. It not only gives a better angle to play with your data, but it can also present the result in the way you can better understand it. It's a free tool suite that you can use to create very rich visualizations, but you can also do very deep analysis of your data with it. You can have the power of visualization and analysis at your fingertips using PowerBI:

You can easily download the desktop application from https://powerbi.microsoft.com/, or you can also use the online application to harvest the awesome functionality of PowerBI.

You can perform the following steps to connect the Microsoft Dynamics NAV with Power BI and totally play with your Dynamics NAV data in PowerBI:

  1. Load the desktop application of PowerBI or sign in to https://powerbi.microsoft.com:

  2. You will get a page where you will be able to connect to the data or services and other integrations. I would highly...