Introduction

For more advanced dashboards, charts, and scorecards for Dynamics AX, you don't have to go much further than your existing SharePoint portal. SharePoint 2010 has default template sites for BI, and also has a dashboard designer called PerformancePoint embedded in the system that allows you to build dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and reports. When you combine this with the inbuilt reporting cubes, default charts, and reports that are delivered with the standard Dynamics AX 2012 installation, you end up with a great BI platform.

In this chapter, we will show how you can configure SharePoint to become a BI platform for Dynamics AX by setting up a BI site, and then how to attach PerformancePoint to the Dynamics AX default reporting cubes.

We will then show how you can use the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer to create new charts and reports that can then be turned into dashboards that all users are able to access in order to view metrics directly from Dynamics AX.

Finally, we will...