Summary
In this chapter, we have covered the first real-world usage of NAV web services: publishing your data to the Microsoft cloud business intelligence platform (Power BI).
We have discovered what Power BI is and what you can do with the Microsoft BI service (desktop application and cloud portal).
We have learned how to publish NAV data to the Power BI Desktop application by using NAV OData web services and how to create reports and dashboards from that application. Next, we have learned how to publish a dashboard to the cloud portal of Power BI.
Finally, we discovered the Microsoft Dynamics NAV content pack for Power BI and looked at how to use it and what the actual limits are.
In the next chapter, we'll see a real-world case of integration between NAV and external applications by using web services.
