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D365FO and BI Server

We are implementing D365FO (currently in Discovery Phase) and I would like to understand how to include a BI Reporting instance.   I've noticed that D365 has a lot more reports than our current 2009 instance but i'm looking for a better reproting isntance where I can build non-D365 cubes to link data from other systems.  Is there a report server available which can easily connect to D365FO?  I've dont a lot of searches but everything references PowerBI which appears to only connect to the D365 system to pull data.   I'm looking for a Enterprise Reporting System.   Please give me the product name or link to the product? 

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Greg_Deckler
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Well, there are lots of ways to do this. Power BI is an enterprise reporting system, particularly if you go Premium. We do a lot of work with Power BI and Dynamics F&O/CE, it is the go-to platform because of it's tight integration. You can pull data into Power BI but you can also surface reports and visualizations back into D365 very easily.

 

In general, people do a few different things when working with D365 and Power BI, they tend to go down a few different routes:

  • Entity Store
  • BYOD
  • Common Data Service
  • Dataflows

Few different reasons to do one or the other but the future is CDS, IMHO.


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