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Chart of Accounts Relational Mapping - Canned or Custom Support?

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Hello, forum newbie here. My role is expanding to encompass governance for Dynamics AX 2012 R3. As we begin to bring our companies online to the system, I feel that having solid documentation of the main accounts, as well as the departments, FOC custom dimensions, advanced rules, etc is going to be critical to managing future financial dimension change management. Canned reporting/output to Excel in AX appears to be limited to the Main Accounts. What I'd like to get is relational reporting/modeling of our accounts and related dimensions and rules. This could either be flattened files or, I suppose, bringing table data into MS Access, but Excel is likely the route we'd go.

I've seen some blogging that discussed SQL scripts to get such data out of the tables. Is that going to be the most (only) viable method to get a complete Financial dimension picture of our environment? I asked the external developers who have worked on our implementation and they seemed to acknowledge the lack of such reporting without a workaround.

Thanks for any insights/recommendations/bad news!

Derek

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    Such requirements do not make sense to pull information to external sources, when you already have the information within AX. Your focus should be to utilize what you already have, and get someone on board who is familiar with the AX development environment and BI/Reporting tools.

    The data sits in the tables indeed in SQL Server, so you could build Business Intelligence cubes (there are some out-of-the-box ones as well) for your requirements. Or the new approach from Microsoft is to utilize the Entity Store via the Data Import Export Framework, with which you could use such information and visualize it better with more advanced tools such as PowerBI or external SSRS reports feeding off from your simplified entities, rather than fighting with building the ultimate SQL script to pull such information.

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    Thank you for the response, Vilmos, you gave me lots of options to look into. I need to connect with our BI folks and discuss the DIXF -> visualization approach with our consultants and see what shakes out as an approach to help me out. A little out of my pedigree, but hopefully will have folks in the know in the company! I absolutely agree at the conceptual level that pulling data outside of AX seems like an unnecessary chore, but I just didn't know what my options were.

    Cheers, Derek

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
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    If you want to get some idea on what are the possibilities, we are feeding our AX data into a Public PowerBI chart. You can see the level of interactivity and drill-down capabilities which can be achieved. You can switch tabs to see different slices of the data, such as products by brands, goods sold per warehouse, or storage zone grouping. I believe such nice visualization for your chart of account amounts, account types, financial dimensions could also be achieved.

    JJ Stock PowerBI

    Also we are now working with Microsoft to build a couple of visualizations based on the Entity Store for our prices and sales data, but that will only be published later this year.

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