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Today's Live Chat: Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

In case you missed it, we had a fun live panel discussion on Friday, April 12, with Mark Polino, author of the newly released book "Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013" along with Dynamics GP financial reporting experts Belinda Allen of Smith and Allen Consulting and Jared Hall, a Dynamics GP program manager at Microsoft. We discussed the release of Mark's new book and related topics around creating, managing, and distributing financial dashboards with Dynamics GP and Excel. 

Some of the topics of the conversation included:

  • Dashboard Basics - who wants dashboards, what elements are a must-have, and what are the must-have skills of an Excel dashboard developer?
  • Running Excel Reports
  • Managing dashboard requirements
  • Drilling down: From Excel to GP
  • Sharing and Collaboration Options
  • Slightly Crazy Stuff

Dashboards have been a hot topic among GP professionals for some time. As the technology has improved, they have become easier to create and more powerful as a vehicle for beginning to extend the value of ERP from the transactional to the strategic. The Dynamics GP team has released its own working Excel dashboard that has gained some popularity and was featured at Convergence 2013.  

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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