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Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

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Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that supports multi-site operations across various countries, providing international processing within the company. It is an ERP solution with a lot of features and functionality, and it provides support across the fields of financial, distribution, supply chain, project, customer relationship, HR, and field service management. This book is all about simplifying the overall implementation process of Dynamics AX. The purpose of this book is to help IT managers and solution architects implement Dynamics AX to increase the success rate of Dynamics AX projects. This all-in-one guide will take you through an entire journey of a Dynamics AX implementation, ensuring you avoid commonly-made mistakes during implementation. You’ll begin with the installation of Dynamics AX and the basic requirements. Then, you’ll move onto data migration, reporting, functional and technical design, configuration, and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you will know how to plan and execute Dynamics AX right, on your first attempt, using insider industry knowledge and best practices.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Testing and Training
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about upgrading your Dynamics AX application to a new version. A Dynamics AX or any ERP upgrade is not easy and requires lots of planning and analysis. We started the chapter with exploring the different considerations to evaluate if you are ready to take up an upgrade project. Then we looked at the different options available to upgrade to Dynamics AX 2012.

Major version upgrades can be as complex as an initial implementation project. We went through the various phases of the upgrade project. In the planning phase, you learned about the importance of managing customizations, managing scope, business engagement, and impact analysis. You learned about the best practices and recommendations in various other phases, such as code upgrade, test data upgrade, testing, and end-user training. In the end, we went through deployment planning and looked at activities that need to be done once the upgrade process is complete.