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New & Improved Power Pivot/BI Guides Available on the Dynamics AX Companions Project

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

We have had some more requests to have some of the Configuration Blueprints to be updated and made available through the Dynamics AX Companions site as downloadable PDF’s, and we have been able to do that for both of the Power* reporting walkthroughs. Also as a new offering if you want to step through all …

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Creating PowerView Reports From Analysis Services Cubes In Excel Using PowerPivot

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

If you have ever tried to create a PowerView report within Excel that is populated directly from an Analysis Services Cube, then you may have come across a small roadblock where PowerView refuses to work.  All is not lost though, you can trick Power View into thinking that it is querying a real table by …

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Export PowerView Dashboards as PowerPoint To Create Dynamic and Interactive Presentations

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

PowerView is a great tool for creating reports and dashboards directly from Dynamics AX, and is by far one of the cooler reporting tools that you can use.  It has a very cool feature that allows you to export any of your saved dashboards to PowerPoint, and these reports become interactive when you go into …

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Create PowerView Dashboards directly from Dynamics AX

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

If you pay attention to your Dynamics AX screens, you may notice a new button has shown up with an Analyze This label.  When you see it, click on it as soon as you can because it will open up a PowerView reporting dashboard that allows you to create your own reports on the fly. …

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Perform What-If Analysis Within Excel using PowerBI

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

Sometimes you want to have a way to juggle numbers a little to perform quick what-if analysis, but you are not committed to the change at the time so you really don’t want to be changing the codes within Dynamics AX just yet, and would rather have the changes remain off-line until some time in …

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