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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
Book Image

Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 4. Using NAV Web Services with Microsoft Power BI

In 2009, Microsoft came up with the idea to introduce a self-service business intelligence platform by announcing several BI add-ins for Microsoft Excel, such as Power Pivot, Power Query, and Power View. Following this, the Microsoft BI platform has silently evolved and Microsoft has presented a complete platform called Microsoft Power BI.

Microsoft Power BI is a growing platform for business reporting and data analysis. In this chapter, we want to discover how to use Power BI services to analyze data from Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The data from the NAV ERP will be published as web services to the Power BI platform. Here you will learn about the following topics:

  • An overview of Power BI platform

  • Publishing Microsoft Dynamics NAV data to Power BI

  • Creating rich BI dashboards and reports with Power BI and NAV data

  • Embed Power BI reports into a Microsoft Dynamics NAV page