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Power BI Session at Directions EMEA in Milano

27. October 2021
by Julian Wissel

Today I presented at Directions EMEA in Milano about “Lessons learned from Power BI projects”.
As promised please find the presentation here:
Lessons learned from Power BI projects

Power BI Workshop in The Hague

28. October 201814. April 2021
by Julian Wissel

If you are reading this before October 30 we would kindly like to invite you to join our Power BI workshop at this year's Direction EMEA in The Hague. Please find the session details here In this workshop we will guide you through important parts of [..]Read More

Whitepaper – Power BI Varianten (Cloud, hybrid, On-Premise)

14. September 201814. April 2021
by Julian Wissel

Unternehmen, die Power BI einführen, stehen häufig vor der Frage, ob Power BI als Cloud-Service (powerbi.com) verwendet werden soll, oder ob eine lokale (On-Premise) Installation vorzuziehen ist. Diese beiden Varianten sowie eine Hybrid-Varianten (Nutzung [..]Read More

Directions EMEA 2017 in Madrid

8. November 201714. April 2021
by Julian Wissel

This year navida was again invited to host sessions at Directions EMEA conference. Directions EMEA was hold in beautiful Madrid this year. In our first session on Wednesday, October 4th, we talked about our experiences and about Do's and Don'ts in [..]Read More

Account schedule hierarchies in Power BI

12. August 201614. April 2021
by teegeme

Hierarchies are an important concept in most if not all BI-solutions. This is not different in Power BI. Hierarchies allow aggregating data on different levels - for example users may drill down into a date-hierarchy from the year-level to quarters, months [..]Read More

Filtering NAV’s OData with Power BI

9. August 201614. April 2021
by teegeme

From time to time we get questions on how to filter NAV data when working with Power BI. As an example let’s say we want to create a report on Item Ledger Entries in order to allow analyzing item sales and inventory value. This sort of entry table [..]Read More

Power BI with multiple companies in NAV – repeatable approach

Power BI with multiple companies in NAV – repeatable…

30. November 201514. April 2021
by teegeme

Last year we blogged about how to use Power Query to create reports across all companies. – see here. That approach is still valid with the new Power BI. However it has a few drawbacks that we would like to overcome with a new, better solution. The [..]Read More

Plug and Play solution for NAV Dimensions in Power BI

Plug and Play solution for NAV Dimensions in Power…

8. October 201514. April 2021
by teegeme

Handling NAV dimensions in Power BI has been a pain point since the first days of Power Pivot. Most solutions required that the dimension codes that were of relevance needed to be hard-coded as additional calculated columns to the fact table. Although [..]Read More

Power BI Sessions @ Directions EMEA

6. October 201514. April 2021
by teegeme

Three intensive days in Mannheim are over now. We had three sessions - a Power BI best practices session on Monday and two workshops on Tuesday and Wednesday. We really enjoyed the sessions and the energy and involvement of the participants! As promised [..]Read More

Open Dynamics NAV page directly from Power BI

20. September 201514. April 2021
by teegeme

In April 2014 we blogged about a new feature of our Excel-addin NAVBI that allows opening NAV pages from any Pivot table. Due to a limitation of pivot tables, the link had to be added to the drill-through (details) sheet. We are very pleased that the [..]Read More