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 time. First of all the Advanced client is now...

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 creation of reports and management of the SQL database

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 on Business Scorecard Manager go to: http://office...

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 but can easily be customized to run on any 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 from the participants. Good buzz around the...

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 earlier. It seems that there are good vibes around...

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 in my next posts. If there are special topics in...

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 comments.

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 manually. It is really simple and requires only...

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

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 you are used to working with both SQL Server, Analysis...