Kennie Pontoppidan - Reporting and analytics in Business Central
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Kennie Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, joins the show while at the MVP Summit at the Microsoft headquarter in Redmond to discuss reporting and analytics in Business Central. We start from the history and the evolution in the last couple of years before we dive into the most recent changes including how AI influences the whole story. Kennie then shares how Analytics Views came to live, how he thinks about and prioritizes new features, what the approach on breaking changes is and why he cares so much about samples and documentation. In the end he shares what the BC team is currently doing and why you can find him at almost all BC conferences.
Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. History of reporting and analytics in BC (00:01:51)
3. More recent changes and the strategy behind it (00:05:04)
4. The impact of AI (00:08:29)
5. Where to start if you want to dig into reporting and analytics (00:15:46)
6. The history of Analytics Views and other innovations (00:17:42)
7. Why breaking changes sometimes are necessary and how to still handle them gracefully (00:22:40)
8. The importance of samples and good documentation (00:25:36)
9. Outro: About releases, following Kennie and Circus horses (00:29:18)
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