As promised in a previous post I will provide examples on how to use the new features of Business Analytics Basic. I will be running on SQL 2005 as these features are only available when using SQL 2005. First of let's look at BA Db. Overview form where...

A while a go we released Dynamics NAV 5.0 and with that a new version of Business Analytics Basic and Advanced. I want to spend a few lines of text to share what is new in this release and the reasons for these features making it into the product at this...

So we released SP3 for NAV 4.00. For Business Analytics this means a few things. First and most important we now are able to support SQL Server 2005 with the Configurator. This means that you now can create cubes from NAV 4.00 SP3 on SQL Server 2005 Analysis...

This release includes SQL Server Express with Advanced Services that includes Reporting Services. The service pack can be downloaded here http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx This Service Pack also include tools for SQL Server Express that allows...

I've had the question for additional information on both Reporting Services, Business Scorecard Manager and SQL Server in general from several people approaching me after the sessions at Convergence so I figured I'd post them here. For information...

Together with the SQL Server team we released a report pack for Dynamics Nav running on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. This is done together with a series of other Report Packs that can be seen here . The Nav Reports will run on the W1 demo database...

My first day at Convergence is over and it was a packed day. Meetings, presentations and Expo duty back to back. Presentation was full and went ok. We need to cut some slides to make all the demos fit and the rerun will reflect that. All in all good questions...

Arrived to Dallas last night to the location of Convergence. Came in at 10:45 pm sunday night after 15 hours on the road with lots of time to think about the presentations for today. Arriving here also ment reading mails from team members that arrived...

Convergence is just around the corner and I'm preparing my presentation (NAV05: NAV -- Reporting & Analysis). It will be a powerpacked tour of how to integrate from Navision to the Microsoft BI and reporting stack. There will be lots of demos in Reporting...

I have just created a new category called reporting. Here I will discuess the possibilities in reporting in conjunction with Reporting Services. There are several ways to use this tool to do reports on top of Navision and will try to cover most of them...

Here is a way to provide me some direct feedback with regards to the current reporting solution in Navision. What are you top pains in the current reporting solution and what is the best with regards to the current reporting solution. Leave feedback in...

By request I'll briefly run over generating new timedimension in BA. By default BA is not able to create a Fical Calendar that fits the content of the table AccountingPeriodes. Nor is it able to handle calendars from Service. These can however be created...

Just a service message - Henrik Skydtsgaard has a blog on .Net and Navision here http://blogs.msdn.com/skydtsgaard

Just a note on the update of the configuration post. I had to move my pictures to new location.

As promised at my session last week I would post a detailed walk through of how to be able to run more than one active configuration with BA in Navision 4.00. First of all I would like to state that this is not a thing that I'd recommend doing unless...

In this post I will outline the components used in BA v.4. This will enable you to get an overview of the underlying technologies and ultimately give you an idea of what it takes to customize the setup delivered by BA. The major components of Business...