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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

by Alex Chow, Roberto Stefanetti
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
31h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Power BI reporting integration

With the introduction of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft included something called Power BI (short for Power Business Intelligence). What used to cost a lot of money for a BI solution, Microsoft is now essentially including as part of the Office 365 package. This means that you can utilize Power BI to have a graphical dashboard for your business using live data from Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

The best way to send data to Power BI is to utilize a new object type called Query. The Query object type was actually introduced in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. So, as long as you can publish the query as a web service, Power BI utilized with Excel will suck the data up!

Technically speaking, you do not need Microsoft Dynamics ...

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