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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

More PowerPivot options


PowerPivot is huge. You could write whole books about it. In fact, people have written whole books about it. I've focused on getting data into PowerPivot, because this is the area that is going to be the least familiar to Dynamics GP users. Once the data comes into an Excel pivot table, the processes of pivoting data, reporting off of data, and building dashboards is essentially the same regardless of how the data comes in. Given our limited time and space, I did want to highlight a few things that we won't spend much time on.

Millions of rows of data

PowerPivot allows you to work with millions of rows of data. The sample data in GP 2013 doesn't even come close to this level, but don't lose sight of how powerful this can be. I had someone come up to me with a million rows in their Analytical Accounting tables, and that data was growing by tens of thousands per month. I have other companies that I work with that have 10 years of GL history and their GL numbers are well...