Creating An Analysis Services Cube For Dynamics AX 2012 in AOT

Dynamics AX | Business Intelligence | MSSQLCREATING A REPORTING CUBE INAOT Who say’s that you need to be a Data Warehousing guru in order to create new reporting cubes for Dynamics AX. Not me (any more). The following walkthrough is completely plagiarized of the following Microsoft TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc622026.aspx and shows how easy it is to create your own reporting cubes against the AX 2012 database, without even setting foot in MSSQL Enterprise Manager, or BIDS. This is very cool. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Add Views To New PerspectiveNow we will add a few views and tables to the perspective. In this case we will add CustTableCube, and CustTransTotalSales views so that we havetransaction history in the cube. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Configure CustTransTotalSales ViewNow we need to tweak some of the perspective properties for the views and fields that we added. With the CustTransTotalSales table, change theAnalysisDimensionType to Transaction, and the AnalysisDimensionLabel to Sales Type. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Create A New Analysis Services ProjectNow that we have all of the tables and views configured, we can open up the SQL Server Analysis Services Project Wizard from the Tools menu. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Create A New Analysis Services ProjectIf you want to map the currency conversions, then you can do it in this stage. For our example we will just bypass this… © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Deploy & Process Analysis Services CubeFinally we will want to deploy the Perspective to MSSQL. In this case we will separate out the Perspective into it’s very own cube. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Connect To New Cube Through ExcelTo test the cube we will just use Excel and connect to the Analysis Services server that now has the new cube. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Author Information Murray Fife Senior Solutions Consultant | Junction Solutions Ph: (404) 642-7603 E-mail: mfife@junctionsolutions.com Twitter: @murrayfife SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife © 2012 Junction Solutions. All rights reserved. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Junction Solutions as of the date of this presentation. Because Junction Solutions must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Junction Solutions, and Junction Solutions cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. JUNCTION SOLUTIONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION. © 2012 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Creating An Analysis Services Cube For Dynamics AX 2012 in AOT

by Murray Fife on Feb 20, 2012

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