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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By : Mark Polino
Book Image

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By: Mark 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.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Good design


In our example dashboard, we have limited graphics that are available to us. I wanted to use pictures that are available to the widest number of users. However, I also don't want you to be limited to what everyone else does. If you use Google or Bing to look up images of Excel-based dashboards, they all quickly start to look alike. We will look at a different example to help provide some inspiration.

Author Tyler Chessman has written a book on the U.S. national debt. The book is appropriately titled Understanding the United States Debt. What's really cool for us is that Chessman has taken the U.S. national debt and broken it down in Excel using all the elements that we've used for our dashboard. It is, without a doubt, a very cool Excel dashboard and one of Mark Polino's (the original author of this book) favorites.

The debt data is loaded via PowerPivot, and the Excel sheet is available for download at http://understandingtheusdebt.com/data.aspx. This fantastic dashboard looks...