Free GP Dashboard

Belinda likes and uses the free GP Dashboard that Jared and I showed off in our dashboard session. She links to it in her new post.

The dashboard, and my presentations are all available on the front page at http://www.dynamicaccounting.net.

Why Corporate BI and Self-Service BI Are Both Necessary « Chris Webb's BI Blog

Chris Webb explains Why Corporate BI and Self-Service BI Are Both Necessary

The Dynamics GP Blogster: Microsoft Dynamics GP Excel Dashboards

Mariano has nice coverage of some work that the GP team is doing around Microsoft Dynamics GP Excel Dashboards. They need some additional feedback from you too. I'll have my own write on this later, so for now, read Mariano's piece.

Business Intelligence Investigation - Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Microsoft is hoping to provide some more out of the box BI. They've delivered a sample BI dashboard but would like some from you with their Business Intelligence Investigation .

The State of Self-Service Reporting - The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

SQL Server MVP Paul Turley has an incredibly well written piece on The State of Self-Service Reporting.

All of these apply to Dynamics GP and at I.B.I.S. we've used all of them with various clients (well, except for maybe Power View on Excel. 2013 since that technically hasn't been released yet. I'm playing with it for my next GP book).

Seriously, you need to read this.

About Dynamics, Development and Life: Creating an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for Consolidated Business Intelligence (CBI) Series

Jivtesh likes John Lowther's Creating an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for Consolidated Business Intelligence (CBI) Series

For Business Intelligence and Reporting, the Client is Excel | MSDynamicsWorld.com

My new article is up at MSDynamicsWorld.com and as far as I am concerned, For Business Intelligence and Reporting, the Client is Excel

Winston-Salem SQL PASS Meeting « The Death of Reason

Dwight Specht spoke at the Winston-Salem SQL PASS Meeting.

Check out his post for the details.

Why Do Agile BI? | DynamicsCare

Over at DynamicsCare Dwight Specht ask at Why Do Agile BI?

Who Uses BI? « The Death of Reason

Dwight Specht asks Who Uses BI? To be perfectly clear, when Dwight says that he has met 1 stupid person in the last 10 years, he’s not talking about me.

BI Focus 2011

If you have an interest in Business Intelligence with Dynamics GP or if you use FRx or Management Reporter you need to take a look at the BI FOCUS 2011 event from GPUG going on in Dallas in August.

This event is designed around getting the information you need out of Dynamics GP. There will be sessions on PowerPivot, FRx, Management Reporter, SSRS, Sharepoint and more.

Getting data in to Dynamics GP is great but the value comes with getting information out.

Let’s Get FOCUSED on FRx & BI in Texas - Microsoft Dynamics Community

If you’re interested in BI check out GPUG’s BI event coming to Texas this summer. There’s more at Let’s Get FOCUSED on FRx & BI in Texas - GPUG Events & News.

PragmaticWorks Webinar–Free SQL Training

PragmaticWorks is offering free SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence.

It’s not strictly GP related but don’t pass up free BI training.

Weekly Review: SQL Data Mining Add In.

Microsoft BI marches forward. The latest cool tool is also free. Microsoft has released its Data Mining Add In for SQL Server. While not necessarily GP specific it should work just fine against GP databases and cubes. I could spend a whole bunch of bits here telling you about it but why don't you just go here and see for your self how cool this is.

One caveat, this requires Office 2007 and SQL Server 2008 so some of you may not be ready for it yet.

Originally Posted by Mark at 5/18/2009 09:00:00 AM

Slicing Dynamics GP 2010 Data in Microsoft Excel Dashboards

Over at the Dynamics GP Blog they’ve got a nice look at Slicing Dynamics GP 2010 Data in Microsoft Excel Dashboards.

This dovetails well with my upcoming Convergence presentation on Excel so if you want to see more stuff like this, come to my Convergence session!

Dynamics GP - Learn & Discuss: Top 10 Challenges on Delivering BI to the Masses at Microsoft

Vaidy  made it to Tech-Ed 2011 Middle East and has coverage of a session looking at the Top 10 Challenges on Delivering BI to the Masses at Microsoft

Feature of the Day - Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP

With the upcoming release of GP 2010 R2, Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP is back with a new Feature of the Day. In this installment they look at some of the new Business Intelligence features coming in R2.

One Version of the Truth

I’ve got a new article up on MSDynamicsWorld.com looking at reporting and business intelligence around Dynamics GP. It’s titled,

Does Microsoft Dynamics GP Deliver One Version of the Truth to Your Organization?

Business Intelligence - Who Cares?

Martin at the eOne Dynamics GP and CRM blog looks at BI and  asks Business Intelligence - Who Cares?
I think the number of people interest in BI is higher than his 2% estimate. Based on the interest we’re seeing in Analysis Cubes and Excel Reports the key to BI seems to be accessibility and ease of use. I expect PowerPivot and Excel 2010 to make BI even more accessible over the next year.

OLAP PivotTable Extensions for Excel

In his Inside Microsoft Business Intelligence blog, Patrick Husting gives us a look at the OLAP PivotTable Extensions for Excel 2007. This add in extends the functionality of Pivot Tables by exposing PivotTable functionality that is not exposed in the Excel user interface. If you're analyzing Dynamics GP with business intelligence tools this add in is definitely worth a look.