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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting

Overview of this book

Resources such as the book you now hold in your hand are critical to taking the extra step in uncovering the trends locked deep within your data. Not only will this book offer insight into the many reporting tools currently available for GP, it will also offer a unique perspective on how each reporting tool can be used to meet specific challenges faced by your organization" - Errol Schoenfish, a member of the Microsoft Dynamics community for over 24 years Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 is a sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with a multitude of features and options. Microsoft Dynamics GP enables you to create and manage a variety of reports that help small and mid-size businesses effectively manage their financial and operational data. This book will show you how to create and manage reports, know what tools to use and when, how to use them and where to find the data based on how it's being entered into the system with Dynamics GP. This book will empower you with the tools and reports necessary to use Dynamics GP data in making key business decisions. The book addresses the many challenges and frustrations a company may face when preparing to build new reports. Then it moves on to explain how to find your data in the GP system and company databases. The book then dives deep into topics such as SmartLists, SL Builder and Excel Report Builder, Report Writer, SSRS Report Library, and Analysis Cubes Design and Management Reporter amongst others. With this knowledge in hand, you will be capable of selecting the most effective tool for the current reporting environment.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating dashboards from Analysis Cubes data—a few thoughts


As we've seen from our previous examples, one of the great benefits of Analysis Cubes is that users can quickly and easily create their own reports from scratch. With the ad-hoc capabilities provided via PivotTable functionality, users can quickly move the building blocks of their report around in a manner that suits them best. If for some reason a report is lost, it's usually not too difficult to recreate that report from scratch.

Most users, however, will identify several key reports and/or metrics of information that they want to refer to on a regular basis. Rather than create these reports from scratch every time they open a new Excel workbook, these users will begin saving these reports in an Excel workbook. Then, anytime they want to refer to that information, they'll pull up that work book, hit Refresh All, and be on their way. Unbeknownst to some of these users, what they're doing is engaging in a primitive form of "dash...