Entries by Tuomas Kesti

How to test Dynamics 365 web-API?

In this screen cast, I show you how to use and test Dynamics 365 web-API from a client tool called SOAPUI. The purpose of this screen cast is to show a simplified scenario of how to save a new lead into CRM through the web-API by a programming language independent way. The web-API is a REST-based web service of Dynamics 365 that implements OData v4.

How to do cross-country skating style ski waxing?

As we are getting closer to the best skiing time of the year, I thought that it would be good to share some of the tips and tricks that I’ve learned about ski waxing. I’ve learned these practices from the very best and the wisest waxing experts of the world who waxed skis already during the times of Väinämöinen.

Power BI On Premise Data Gateway

This blog post is about connecting O365-based Power BI service to On Premise installed Dynamics CRM. Why? The goal of this project was to develop Power BI reports which combine data from on premise Dynamics CRM and other on premise data sources (SQL). The reasons why Power BI was selected as reporting platform: Power BI […]

My first touch to Power BI connected to Dynamics CRM

Some time ago we agreed with one of our customers that we will discontinue implementing the CRM reporting using the good old SSRS. We started looking for modern data analyzing and reporting tools out there. A few reasons led us to familiarize ourselves with the Microsoft Power BI. One of the reasons was that it […]