Renato Fajdiga
Business Consultant
Zagreb, Croatia
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Renato Fajdiga, a seasoned Microsoft Dynamics NAV/365 Business Central consultant and blogger, currently leads the Business Applications team, overseeing F&O, BC, and other applications. An MVP and MCT since 2018, he specializes in Business Applications, particularly Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Platform. He thrives on learning new technologies and concepts that enhance customer processes. Occasionally, he delves into coding, but his primary motivation is resolving community-posted issues with Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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Deep Dive: Dataverse Integration with Business Central
Integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central with Microsoft Dataverse unlocks powerful extension and automation scenarios across the Power Platform, but doing it right requires a solid understanding of the underlying concepts, capabilities, and trade-offs.
In this session, we take a deep, practical dive into Business Central–Dataverse integration. You’ll learn how to configure and extend Data Sync, how to expose and consume Business Central data using Virtual Tables, how Business Events enable event-driven integrations, and when to choose real data synchronization versus virtual access. We’ll go beyond the basics and look at real-world patterns, limitations, and performance considerations you need to be aware of when designing scalable solutions.
Whether you’re extending Business Central with Power Apps, automating processes with Power Automate, or building custom integrations, this session will give you a clear mental model and practical guidance to build robust Dataverse integrations with confidence.
Unlocking business value with Business Central & Power BI
Join this session to learn how Power BI can elevate reporting and analytics in Dynamics 365 Business Central. We’ll start with the built-in Power BI reports - how to set them up, use them effectively, and customize them to fit your needs. From there, we’ll dive into creating tailored reports using both Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service, highlighting new capabilities that allow customers to build models and reports directly in the service without relying on Desktop. Finally, we’ll show you how to embed your custom Power BI reports into Business Central, bringing insights right where your users work.
Telemetry for Business Central Consultants
Telemetry in Dynamics 365 Business Central is no longer just a technical tool, it’s a powerful source of insight for consultants who want to deliver more value to their clients.
In this session, you’ll learn how to use Business Central telemetry to understand system usage, identify issues early, and support data-driven decisions, without needing a developer background. We’ll walk through practical examples from real projects, show how to run and interpret simple KQL queries, and demonstrate how consultants can use ready-made dashboards and Microsoft’s free Power BI apps to monitor performance and user behavior. We’ll also show how AI can help analyze telemetry data and uncover insights faster.
We’ll also cover cost considerations and best practices to keep telemetry efficient and affordable, so you can turn data into insights without increasing project budgets.
This session is for Business Central consultants who want to strengthen their role as trusted advisors using real, actionable data.
Practical data analysis tools every Business Central consultant should know
In this session, I will explore the comprehensive data analysis capabilities available within Dynamics 365 Business Central. You will gain insights into leveraging built-in reporting features, Excel layouts, and the powerful Analysis Mode—both standalone and enhanced with Copilot and AI. We will also cover creating and utilizing queries for advanced reporting, integrating Business Central with Power BI for interactive dashboards, and connecting with Excel for flexible data manipulation. This session is designed to equip Business Central consultants with tools and techniques to transform raw data into business insights.
Telemetry in Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to Maximize Value for You and Your Clients
In this session, we’ll explore all aspects of telemetry in Dynamics 365 Business Central – from the initial setup to advanced real-life examples. We’ll demonstrate how telemetry is not just a tool for developers but also an invaluable resource for consultants. You’ll learn how to write KQL queries, create custom dashboards, or utilize Microsoft’s free Power BI apps. We’ll also discuss the costs of telemetry and how to optimize them. If you want to understand why telemetry is crucial for your client's success, this session is not to be missed!
Telemetrija u Dynamics 365 Business Centralu: Ključ za učinkovit monitoring i analizu
U ovom predavanju istražit ćemo praktične primjene telemetrije unutar Dynamics 365 Business Central sustava. Otkrit ćete kako postaviti i koristiti telemetriju ne samo za praćenje i poboljšanje performansi sustava, već i za pružanje vrijednih uvida konzultantima i developerima. Naučit ćete kako kreirati prilagođene dashboarde, pisati učinkovite KQL upite i koristiti Microsoftove besplatne out-of-the-box Power BI aplikacije. Također ćemo obraditi troškovne aspekte i strategije optimizacije kako biste maksimalno iskoristili postavke telemetrije. Bilo da želite poboljšati vlastite procese ili pružiti dodatnu vrijednost svojim klijentima, ovo predavanje će vas opremiti potrebnim alatima.
Power of Queries in Business Central
Queries have not been commonly used in the ERP world since the NAV era. However, with Dynamics 365 Business Central now exposed to other applications, users can use queries to perform various integrations through API queries. Queries can also enhance user reporting experience and provide new dimensions of reporting capabilities to Dynamics 365 Business Central.
In our session, we will demonstrate how to develop various query types, build reports based on query datasets, track queries in telemetry, and use them in various integration and user reporting scenarios.
Power BI for Business Central – tips & tricks
Join us on a comprehensive journey through compelling Power BI subjects in this session.
Explore key inquiries such as:
- Optimizing data retrieval from Business Central and its impact on query efficiency and performance.
- Constructing a robust data model for superior insights.
- Unleashing the intelligent features of Power BI for valuable insights.
- Harnessing Power Platform and AI functionalities for Dynamics 365 Business Central reporting.
Moreover, don't miss practical demonstrations and insightful guidance for effectively crafting Power BI reports with handy tips and tricks. This session promises to enrich your Power BI expertise.
Transform Your Data Analysis with Business Central, Power Platform, and Copilot
Join us for an engaging session where we will show you how to use Copilot in Business Central and Power Platform to unlock valuable insights from your data.
We will demonstrate how to analyze your data effectively using pages and queries in Business Central. You will also learn how to connect Business Central with Dataverse for more advanced data analysis that supports better decision-making. Additionally, we will explore how Copilot can improve your data integration and provide insights that can help elevate your business.
Take this opportunity to strengthen your data-driven strategies!
Business Central Reporting demystified
With almost every new version of Dynamics 365 Business Central, developers and consults get new, improved, and better ways how to make customers happy with reporting on top of Business Central data.
In this session, we will deep dive technically in all reporting capabilities, like for example:
- Out-of the-box and custom reports (RDLC, WORD, EXCEL,...)
- Analyze data in tabs on list pages
- Open/Edit in Excel
- Data integrations with Dataverse, Dataflows, Power BI,...
So if you want a good overview and a technical deep dive of all Business Central reporting capabilities, advantages/disadvantages, use cases, then this session is the one!
Business Central Excel Layout Reports Demystified
Learn in this session, how to create Excel report layouts in Business Central
Discover how you can create a report that generates a dataset and leave it up to the end-user to further modify it by using the full palette of capabilities in Excel such as sliders, diagrams, charts, pivot tables, and Power Query to design the report.
On top of that, let's also look how Power BI Datasets and/or Dataflows can be integrated in the same Excel layouts.
From RDLC to Power BI
For decades, developers have had the possibility to develop reports based on various data sources.
With the new version of Dynamics 365 Business Central, developers, key users, and consultants can build reports and modify them even without having development experience.
In our session, we will show you how to create a report from scratch, the possibilities of RDLC, Word, and Excel layouts, and when to use them. We will show how we can easily monitor reports execution in Telemetry and track eventual problems.
When standard reporting is not enough, users can utilize BI reporting through Power BI and share reports with colleagues. Join our 45 min session about reports and Power BI capabilities.
Workshop: Business Central Excel Layout Reports Demystified
Learn in this workshop, using the Excel report layout, how you can create a report that generates a dataset and leave it up to the end-user to further modify it by using the full palette of capabilities in Excel such as sliders, diagrams, charts, pivot tables, and Power Query to design the report.
Discover how you can offer flexibility and freedom for the end-user, being able to change the look and feel of a report, adding additional views, filtering, and sorting on data, using the Excel Layout reports in Business Central.
This workshop will focus on the development of the ideal dataset and of course also the Excel layouts.
Why are Dataflows so interesting for Power BI and Business Central?
As data volume continues to grow, so does the challenge of wrangling that data into well-formed, actionable information.
Once you’ve created a dataflow, you can use Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service to create datasets, reports, dashboards, and apps that leverage the Common Data Model to drive deep insights into your business activities.
In this session I will demo how you can create reusable dataflows and consume them in Power BI, based using the Business Central dataflow connector.
Virtualni Agenti u službi ERPa
Svakom novom verzijom Dynamics 365 Business Central i Power Platform, Microsoft nastoji približiti funkcionalnosti oba alata i pobrisati granicu između klasičnog ERPa i novih tehnologija. U ovom predavanju ćemo Vam nastojati prikazati koje su sve mogućnosti integracije Dynamics 365 Business Central Online sa modernim chat-botovima kao što su Power Virtual Agents, ali i neki drugi scenariji korištenja sličnih alata kao što su Azure Bot Frameworka te QnA makera. Predavanje ćemo nastojati približiti citizen developerima te pokazati na primjerima kako maksimalno iskoristiti navedene alate bez naprednog znanja programiranja.
From RDLC to Power BI – reporting capabilities in Business Central
For decades, developers have had the possibility to develop reports based on various data sources.
With the new version of Dynamics 365 Business Central, developers, key users, and consultants can build reports and modify them even without having development experience.
In our session, we will show you how to create a report from scratch, the possibilities of RDLC, Word, and Excel layouts, and when to use them. We will show how we can easily monitor reports execution in Telemetry and track eventual problems.
When standard reporting is not enough, users can utilize BI reporting through Power BI and share reports with colleagues. Join our 90 min session about reports and Power BI capabilities.
Power BI & Business Central – from zero to BI hero
After releasing Business Central, we can see many new possibilities of integration with Power BI. In this session, you will learn how to connect Power BI Desktop and Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS as well as the On-Prem version of Dynamics 365 Business Central and use it to create powerful reports. Using standard features of Power BI service, you will learn how to create an application in Power BI service and share it with other colleagues who work in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Through various practical examples, you will see how to work with Power BI reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central, combine the data from multiple sources such as Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 HR to get complete information about your business. In the end, we will provide an overview of using Power BI reports based on Dynamics 365 Business Central data inside with Power Platform.
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Enrich ERP processes with Power Platform
Back in past, we asked our partners to develop everything for us (customers), from the forms and workflows to the complex reports. Nowadays with a lot of modern applications, we can extend our ERP in this case Dynamics 365 Business Central with applications that are part of Power Platform.
In my session, I will show you how you can utilize the existing integration potential between Dynamics 365 Business Central on one side and Power Platform on another side. When the standard and out-of-the-box solution is not enough I will show you how you can extend Dynamics 365 Business Central and use it with Power Platform.
Business Central with Power Platform - more than ERP solution
For decades we used Dynamics NAV for enterprise resource planning operations. We could extend standard NAV functionalities, making customizations in NAV or developing integrations with some other e-commerce solutions. But common word in both of cases was “development”.
After releasing Business Central and other business apps as i.e. Power Platform, we can see many new possibilities of integrations with other systems are either on-prem or in the cloud as well as other models of extending standard features.
In this session, you will learn about the latest features and technologies which allow users to extend Business Central functionalities and integrate it with solutions for customer engagement, business intelligence, human resource… Using various available services from Power Platform and Azure we will show you the way how to extend Business Central beyond its limits. We will show you how effectively to use Flow, LogicApps, Power BI, Canvas PowerApps and even making Model-Driven PowerApps with Business Central, bringing Business Central to the CDS and it means using BC with CRM UI! Even maybe you would like to embed PowerApp in your BC? Of course, we will explain how to do it as well as when and why to do it.
Napredne mogućnosti Business Central i Power Platform
Power Platform sa svojim alatima Power Automate, Power Apps i Power BI omogućuje bogatu povezanost sa Business Centralom. Out-of-the box konektori pružaju veliku razinu integracije između Business Centrala i ostalih servisa koristeći Power Automate. No što kada ni to nije dovoljno? Korisnicima je pružena mogućnost izrade vlastitih konektora i koristeći funkcionalnosti custom connectora. Na ovom predavanju ćete vidjeti koje su sve mogućnosti standardnih APIa te na koji način kreirati jednostavni vlastiti konektor koji će povezati Business Central sa vanjskim servisom.
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