WG.14.AX2012.1.TRAIN.PPT: Self Service Reporting Using Excel and PowerView within Dynamics AX 2012 - Training Presentation (PowerPoint)

When people first think of reporting, they generally think about the old fashioned reports that they are used to requesting from the IT department which are probably created through some reporting tool like SQL Server Reporting Services.  And although there are a lot of those reports available within Dynamics AX out of the box, they are not really reports that the end users are able to modify, and they are very rigid in their formatting. Something that people don’t think about is that the forms that they are using every day are the best reports that are out there, and they can change them any time that they like.  List pages give you a wealth of information that is filterable and then you can save away the view for reference later on giving you a quick and easy way to analyze your data. Additionally, all of this information is exportable to Excel, creating a refreshable (and secure) worksheet with the data directly from Dynamics AX.  Once you have the data in Excel there is no end wo w