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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By : Mark Polino
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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

Power BI Professional (paid) versus Power BI (free)


As amazing as Microsoft Power BI is, the price is even better. There are two versions: Power BI and Power BI Pro. Power BI is free! Power BI Pro is $9.99 USD/month. All this power, no pun intended, and it is that inexpensive. The icing on the cake is that if you need a paid user license (Power BI Pro), it does not mean that everyone in your company needs a paid user license. Within your company, you can mix the license options, as they are a user by user case.

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We will only focus on the major feature differences between the two versions, not all the features.

Let's review the major differences between the two options:

The first big difference is the amount of data that can reside in the Power BI Service, and therefore, Power BI Mobile. The free version can only contain 1 GB of data per user, while the paid version can contain 10 GB per user. The dashboards are based off visuals that are on the Power BI reports, and the Power BI reports are...