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Power BI template apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power BI dashboards and reports. Using Power BI template apps with Dynamics 365 Sales provides a convenient, powerful, and quick way to access and analyze your sales data.

The following Power BI template apps are available to analyze your sales data in Dynamics 365 Sales:

  • Sales Analytics for Dynamics 365 Sales

  • Process Analytics for Dynamics 365

You can connect to and analyze your Dynamics 365 Sales data by using these Power BI template apps. You can schedule automatic data updates to ensure that you can always make the most informed and timely decisions. You can also create your own custom Power BI dashboards based on the reports in these template apps and embed them directly in Dynamics 365 Sales.

Sales Analytics for Dynamics 365 Sales

Sales managers are responsible for managing sales representatives who work with customers to close deals every day. Sales managers need to have visibility over key operational and pipeline metrics to drive team performance.

Managers can see trends in these metrics over time to understand how sellers are performing. Then they can take corrective measures, provide appropriate guidance to sellers, and improve the customer purchase experience.

As a sales manager, use this dashboard to perform the following tasks:

  • Monitor the sales pipeline, sales leaderboard, and top deals.

  • Analyze pipeline performance, won/lost deals, and lead closure.

Screenshot of the Sales analytics dashboard.

Process Analytics for Dynamics 365

The Process Analytics for Dynamics 365 Power BI template app is designed to help sales enablement managers get insights into the performance of their business process flows.

Sales enablement managers can fine-tune process definitions to achieve maximum efficiency and track key performance indicators, including the velocity of records through process stages to understand how efficient their organizational processes are,

As a sales enablement manager, use this template app to perform the following tasks:

  • Track business process performance.

  • Create custom dashboards that focus on just one business process.

Screenshot of the Process analytics dashboard.

For more information, visit Configure Power BI template apps to work with Dynamics 365 Sales or Customize Power BI template apps for Dynamics 365 Sales.