Power Pivot and Power View are tools that quickly allow power users to get answers from their data. In order to help demonstrate how easy it is to start working with these technologies, I published a blog on the MVP blog site. This article walks through the process of creating a simple Power Pivot data model from a Great Plains database, and then using that model to do a simple profit analysis and visualization using Power View. Finally, the model is shared out on Office 365.
You can read the article here.