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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By : Mark Polino
Book Image

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By: Mark Polino

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a complete ERP solution that is extremely beneficial for small to midsize organizations in helping them grow exponentially. The book shows you in detail how to build great-looking dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP that enhance a company’s decision-making processes. This guide will take you from the basics of setting up and deploying to creating secure, refreshable Excel reports. Using a whole host of tools available within Microsoft Dynamics GP and Excel, this tutorial will show you how to visualize your data using simple conditional formatting techniques and easy-to-read charts, and allow you to make your data interactive with slicers. We will also cover core topics such as Business Analyzer, Microsoft SQL Reporting services reports, BI360, and more. You will find out to use Power BI, share and refresh data and dashboards in Power BI, and use Power BI Query Editor. By the end of this book, you will have all the information required to build interactive dashboards using Dynamics GP.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Creating Power BI Visuals

So here is the exciting part where we see (we're laughing because it's a pun off visuals) data starting to appear on the screen. As data artists, we've gathered our paints and supplies (data), the (Power BI) blank canvas lays before us, and we're about to paint realistic views of our data. Too far with the imagery? Sorry, it's the most fun part, and we got a little carried away.

In this chapter, we will cover the basics on visuals. There are more visuals and improvements to visuals being constantly added. As a result, understanding some of the basics is essential. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Filters

  • Formatting

  • Standard visuals

  • Development options

  • R overview