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Book Description

Dynamics AX is a next-generation ERP system that can be customized in any area to provide a competitive edge by facilitating ERP implementations that follow the time-proven processes being used by businesses. This ERP system not only provides additional flexibilities but also has some other unique features such as its layered customization approach, separation of language elements from code, feature keys, etc. All these features add great value allowing implementation of solutions in a flexible, cost-effective, risk-free, and timely manner but these things may add challenges in quality assurance of these solutions.

This book discusses the methodology to ensure quality standards in Dynamics AX customization projects and IBI-compliant independent software vendor application development. Dynamics AX customization is not equivalent to fresh application development; however, Dynamics is so flexible that it allows customization in almost all areas, which poses greater challenges for correctness, accuracy, and trustworthiness of customized Dynamics AX-based ERP solutions.

This book discusses the quality expectations from Dynamics AX-based ERP solutions, best practices that need to be followed to meet the quality expectations, and the strategies to test a customized Dynamics AX ERP application.

This practical reference book, perfect for Microsoft Business Solution partners, will take you through the testing lifecycle of Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP solutions, including testing compliance to the Industry Builder Initiative (IBI) standard for ERP software. Download Now »

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is an advanced Enterprise Resource Planning system, essentially a comprehensive business management solution, designed for midsize and large organizations. Dynamics AX provides a centralized source for business data and enables you to consolidate and standardize your business processes, helping to improve productivity and provide visibility across your organization, for a variety of business needs.

This book will enable you to successfully set up and configure Dynamics AX 2009 in your business with clear, practical, step-by-step demonstrations. You will learn how to plan and implement Dynamics AX 2009 efficiently, how to manage the Enterprise Portal, Role Centers, Kerberos Authentication, Workflow, Application Integration Framework (AIF), and much more!

Each chapter of the book explores the different aspects of administring and configuring Dynamics AX 2009 to fit any company’s needs.

The book begins by introducing you to the important process of planning and implementing Dynamics AX 2009, providing the basic components to get you started with your Dynamics AX environment.

It then dives deep into the installation of the multi component server of Dynamics AX and how to get it up and running efficiently, specifically the Base Server Components, Enterprise Portal, Role Centers, Kerberos Authentication, Workflow, and the Application Integration Framework (AIF).

Other content includes the process of importing data into your Dynamics AX 2009 instance, common user administration functions, and Alerts and Notifications. Download Now »

Book Description

Dig into the architecture and internals of Microsoft Dynamics AX—with firsthand insights from the team who designed and developed it. Deepen your knowledge of the underlying frameworks, components, and tools—and get best-practice guidance to customize and extend your own high-performance solutions.

Discover how to:
* Work with MorphX application-modeling tools and X++ code
* Exploit built-in workflow infrastructure to simplify process automation
* Use Enterprise Portal and ASP.NET to build rich, role-based Web portals
* See how reporting components work together for better business intelligence
* Execute complex batch jobs with greater control and reliability
* Learn how the runtime implements configuration and security
* Walk through integration scenarios and technologies
* Create and expose services to external applications
* Optimize application performance and extensibility Download Now »

Book Description

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that comes with its own development environment and a programming language called X++. It is specialized and optimized to solve the tasks that are typical of an ERP system. But the specialized development environment of AX brings a steep learning curve. Hence, getting started with Dynamics AX and mastering it effectively can sometimes be daunting.

This tutorial has been carefully structured to guide you through the basic features of AX development, and get you started as quickly as possible. With this book, you will soon be able to develop and maintain comprehensive management solutions for enhancing your application’s performance.

The book starts with a tour of the development environment, which helps you gain a deep understanding of Dynamics AX tools and architecture. It will introduce you to the X++ language. It helps you to create new functionality that can be used and changed in the standard application. You’ll also learn how to search, manipulate, and integrate data.
The practical examples in this book take you through sample AX development projects and help you learn to create forms, reports, menu items, menus, and navigation pages. It also helps you work with the MorphX application.

The author’s experience of developing solutions with Dynamics AX enables him to share insights in an effective, clear, and friendly way. Download Now »

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Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and larger organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version – Dynamics AX 2009 – the system is due to expand even more rapidly.

Every new implementation requires some level of customization, and all organizations want this to be done to the highest standards using proven approaches.

This step-by-step guide will help you manage your company’s ERP information and operations efficiently, and solve your business process problems in an effective and quick way. This book focuses on commonly used custom modifications in major Dynamics AX modules. This book contains commonly used bits of code which were real-world tested in at least one successful Dynamics AX implementation. Many of the recipes were deployed in many implementations and even across several versions of Dynamics AX. The examples in this book cover various areas of Dynamics AX to help developers not only learn about programming, but also about the functional side of Dynamics AX. The book should help developers who already know the basics of Dynamics AX programming to step up to the next level.

The recipes allow you to look at the development from the perspective of business processes. You will learn to enhance your user interface using various Dynamics AX UI elements. Managing your data and functions will become easier. You will also get numerous development tips and tricks from a Dynamics AX development expert. Download Now »