Preface

Microsoft Dynamics NAV gives you direct access to real-time, business-critical information, and a wide range of analytical tools to help you manage budgets,create and consolidate reports, and look for trends and relationships.

What's more, Microsoft Dynamics NAV is built on industry-standard Microsoft technology and integrates with other Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) products and technologies. So, you can start with the basic modules and Microsoft Office Excel and then add functionality and tools as you need them.

This is how Microsoft describes the Business Intelligence capabilities of the Dynamics NAV product. As we will see in this book, this description is not far from the truth. The only problem is that most people don't have a clear idea of how much is available in the box and what's available out of the box.

Implementers are usually very good in setting up the application so that users can input their data into the system according to the processes and flows in their organization / company. A lot of time and effort is spent on adapting the application to the flows and processes of the organization. But, after the data is then finally inside the database, how do we then get it out again? That's a question I get a lot from customers. In this book, I will give you an answer to this question.

After reading this book it should be clear how to manipulate Dynamics NAV for it to produce the reports and analytical data that you want, when you want it, and in the format you want it!