Another word for running reports2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Since the Entity Store uses in-memory technology build into SQL Server you can connect to it using Power BI direct query to enable near-real time analytical reporting.Īll the Power BI Report Models published by Microsoft are using the Entity Store as a datasource. It enables scheduling incremental refresh jobs via the AX batch framework and will pull the data from the transactional database for AX and push the data into the Entity Store database. ![]() “Customer”) to be moved into the Entity Store. It was later introduced for AX7 (now Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations).Įntity Store enables users to choose “Entites” (E.g. It was first introduced for Dynamics AX 2012 R3 back in May 2016 and as an existing user of AX you could create an Entity Store in Azure or within your own infrastructure using SQL Server 2016 or 2014. The Entity Store is a new database dedicated to Reporting and Analytics, in other words, it is optimized for Reporting purposes. I’m not going through Power BI as a reporting tool in this post as I am mentioning it throughout the post and it has already been covered various places/posts.įirst things first. ![]() What options do we currently have available for reporting? Let’s take a look. As you all know Power BI is the main reporting tool for D365FO, but there are different ways of connecting to the data sources to get the data you need. I read a lot of different posts about how to connect to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (I’m shortening this down to D365FO throughout this post) for reporting and there seems to be somewhat confusion on what’s available in the latest version of D365FO, so I thought I’d gather everything into one post. ![]()
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