When you use Power BI Desktop (or Power Query) to connect to a Dynamics NAV ODATA feed, the URL you pass looks like this: http://thinkaboutit:7048/NAV2016CU6/OData/Company(‘CRONUS%20BELGI%C3%8B%20NV’)/ where thinkaboutit is the server running your service tier, 7048 is the ODATA port and NAV2016CU6 is the Service Tier Instance. Company(‘CRONUS%20BELGI%C3%8B%20NV’)/ means that you are retrieving data from a … Read More →
I have been asked this question a couple of times, during Power BI trainings and presentations. For some companies it’s important to know where exactly, in which country, data is stored. Well, in PowerBI.com, you can go to Help, About and find out: And voila, now you know 🙂
Recently I had the honor of presenting a webinar about Power BI and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
The recording has been uploaded and is available here. Enjoy 😉
And, of course, I would like to thank Mark Brummel for inviting me for this webinar!
Recently I was working with Dynamics NAV in the Web Services page of the RTC. I added some web services, deleted others and then also renamed some of them. No problem, I do that all the time, for demo purposes. But then, suddenly, when I tried to test a web service, by copy/pasting it’s URL … Read More →
Recently I stumbled upon this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/12/18/3-twitter-kpis-to-share-on-your-business-dashboard.aspx It shows how you can export your Twitter analytics and use it as a source in a Power BI Dashboard: The process is very simple. Get Your Twitter Data Go to analytics.twitter.com. You may have to log in to your Twitter account. Click on Tweets in the Twitter … Read More →
If you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2016, which I highly recommend, you will notice that ‘the Power’ has disappeared. With Power I mean, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Map. So where did they go and how can I get them back? Actually, they’re not gone, let’s have a closer look. First you … Read More →
Get an overview of the exciting new features and tools available for Microsoft Power BI: live dashboards, interactive visual reports, the Power BI Designer and mobile apps:
Microsoft has made the new Power BI preview available for everyone. If you go here:Â https://www.powerbi.com you can create your free account to test out the new features of Power BI. Here you can download the Power BI Designer:Â https://www.powerbi.com/dashboards/downloads/designer so you can get started to create your own Power BI reports. Have a look here to … Read More →
These videos demonstrate how to build a Power BI Dashboard in Office 365 with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. … Read More →