{"id":106515,"date":"2022-04-28T18:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/?p=106515"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:06:43","slug":"connecting-power-bi-to-dynamics-365-business-central-in-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/connecting-power-bi-to-dynamics-365-business-central-in-2-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Power BI to Dynamics 365 Business Central in 2 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Overview<\/h2>\r\n

Just a quick 2 minute video on how to connect the standard Power BI dashboard created specifically by Microsoft for Dynamics 365 Business Central<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

You can read the official Microsoft documentation on how to connect the standard Power BI dashboards here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Or you can watch a quick video on how to do this.<\/p>\r\n

How to Connect<\/h2>\r\n

There are basically 3 things you need in order to get the beautiful Power BI dashboard with the data from your Dynamics 365 Business Central:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Subscription to Office 365 and Dynamics 365 Business Central<\/li>\r\n
  2. Name of the company that you want to display in the Power BI dashboard<\/li>\r\n
  3. Name of the database that you want to connect the Power BI dashboard<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Once you have these 3 pieces of data, you’re ready to go!<\/p>\r\n