Steven Renders
MVP, Consultant, Trainer - Plataan
Halen, Belgium
Steven is a trainer/consultant, with skills spanning business and technical domains, with more than 20 years of experience. He provides training and consultancy focused on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power BI.
Steven is a Partner at Plataan.tv, based in Belgium. Plataan is a leading off and online learning company. Plataan helps organizations and individuals excel through learning and training programs.
On Januari 1st, 2016, Steven received the Microsoft® MVP Award. This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.
Steven is the author of the books:
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015: Professional Reporting
Specialties:
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Business Intelligence & Reporting
Area of Expertise
Topics
Mastering Reporting in Business Central
Unlock the Full Spectrum of Reporting Capabilities:
- Strategic Data Modeling
Tailor your data models for specific purposes, ensuring reports deliver targeted insights.
- Seamless Embedded Reports
Integrate reports seamlessly within Business Central for an enhanced user experience.
- Dynamic Data Exploration with Analysis Mode
Dive into analysis mode to dynamically explore data and unveil actionable insights.
- Excel Empowerment for Data Export
Craft robust Excel layouts for effortless data export and user-controlled report building.
- AI-Powered Power BI Reporting
Harness the advanced features of Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, elevating your reporting with artificial intelligence.
- Performance Monitoring and Automation
Monitor Business Central performance, setting up alerts and automated workflows with Power Automate based on report data.
- Efficient Job Queue Management
Utilize Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI Service for streamlined job queue monitoring.
- Data Transformation Mastery with Dataflows
Connect to diverse data sources, transform and enrich data using dataflows for a versatile data model supporting multiple Power BI reports and dashboards.
- Strategic KPI Visualization
Implement scorecards and metrics to measure and display essential Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Embed them in custom Business Central pages for convenient access and visualization.
Join our session to discover these invaluable tips and tricks, transforming your reporting capabilities in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Elevate your insights and empower your decision-making processes!
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.
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.
Power BI and Business Central Deep dive, Tips and 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.
- Mastering incremental refresh implementation.
- 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 out on 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.
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.
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!
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