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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013

By : Mark Polino
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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013

By: Mark Polino

Overview of this book

Accounting systems like Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 hold a wealth of information. Excel 2013 provides a great tool for linking to, extracting, analysing, and presenting that rich data to help companies make better, faster, and smarter decisions.Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 covers how to get the rich, detailed information contained in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and present it in an attractive, easy-to-understand way using Excel 2013. The book shows in detail how to build great-looking dashboards that enhance a company's decision-making process.This book shows you how to get at the rich, detailed information contained in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and present it in an attractive, easy-to-understand way using Excel 2013. This guide will take you from the basics of setup and deployment to creating secure, refreshable Excel reports. Using a whole host of tools available within Excel, this tutorial will show you how to visualize your data using simple conditional formatting techniques, easy-to-read charts, and allow you to make your data interactive with Slicers. Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 provides a way for you to easily build that interactive dashboard that your CFO keeps asking for.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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We've shown that PowerPivot provides the ability to easily combine and analyze data from different sources. For example, if you have a third-party accounts receivable application that integrates into Dynamics GP, you can still analyze that detailed data against the information in Dynamics GP. PowerPivot supports all the usual suspects: Excel, Text, SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC connections, and so on. But it also supports a couple of unusual connections, specifically Atom feeds, Reporting Services Reports, and the Windows Azure Marketplace.

About Atom feeds

Atom feeds are best known for syndicating blog content. The Atom format is an alternative to the more widely used RSS format. However, Atom feeds can be used for other things. Microsoft refers to these as OData feeds in PowerPivot. OData is a format based on Atom, and for our purposes, they are used interchangeably.

Atom feeds, with data designed to be consumed by tools such as PowerPivot, are still pretty rare, but imagine...