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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

Integration design and development


Once you have all the detailed integration requirements, an integration specialist works with business analysts, developers, and system administrators to create a detailed design. The following topics in this section explain the process of designing an integration solution.

Selecting the right integration technology

It is important to select the best suited integration technology for each of the identified integration requirements. The following table compares integration technologies to help you determine the suitable integration tool as per your requirements:

 

Pros

Cons

Good for

Examples

AIF

  • Robust framework

  • Out-of-the-box services

  • Administration and monitoring

  • Scalable

  • Secure

  • Framework overhead

  • Document-based exchanges

  • Transaction processing across system

  • Create/update sales orders

  • Create customers

  • Send Product details

  • Send Price details

  • Send AP payment data

DIXF

  • Robust framework

  • Future async integration methodology for dynamics AX

  • Needs extension...