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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

Summary


We've just scratched the surface of what can be done with PowerPivot. In truth, many of you will eventually move to PowerPivot as the primary source for Excel-based dashboards. PowerPivot is the future, but the idea of PowerPivot is intimidating to many people, so we've built our dashboards first using basic Excel functionality. Since dashboards often evolve as they mature, changing the source to PowerPivot becomes a logical move during one of the dashboard iterations. Users won't see much difference, except that they may have improved their performance. Builders get a huge advantage in both performance and flexibility.

This chapter on PowerPivot, and the next chapter on slightly crazy stuff, are designed to help you extend the solution that was built in the first eight chapters. They both stand on their own, and they complement the work that you've already done. Chapter 10, Slightly Crazy Stuff contains a number of items that are important for dashboard building but didn't quite...