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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

By : Rahul Mohta, Yogesh Kasat, JJ Yadav
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

By: Rahul Mohta, Yogesh Kasat, JJ Yadav

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition, is a modern, cloud-first, mobile-first, ERP solution suitable for medium and large enterprise customers. This book will guide you through the entire life cycle of a implementation, helping you avoid common pitfalls while increasing your efficiency and effectiveness at every stage of the project. Starting with the foundations, the book introduces the Microsoft Dynamics 365 offerings, plans, and products. You will be taken through the various methodologies, architectures, and deployments so you can select, implement, and maintain Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. You will delve in-depth into the various phases of implementation: project management, analysis, configuration, data migration, design, development, using Power BI, machine learning, Cortana analytics for intelligence, testing, training, and finally deployment, support cycles, and upgrading. This book focuses on providing you with information about the product and the various concepts and tools, along with real-life examples from the field and guidance that will empower you to execute and implement Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Foreword
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Cortana Intelligence Suite 


Cortana Intelligence Suite (CIS) is a collection of tools and offered by Microsoft, which transforms data into intelligent actions. Cortana also offers predictive capabilities with the help of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms.

While Power BI is a great tool, the demand for intelligent insights never reduces to seek actions and predictions. With Azure, one can leverage several options in advanced analytics by coalescing Azure services as shown below:

  • Cortana Intelligence: This is an actionable and intelligence-driven suite based on advanced analytics.
  • Azure HDInsight: This is a cloud Spark and Hadoop service for big data processing.
  • Azure Machine Learning: This is used for predictive analytics.
  • Azure Data Factory: This composes and orchestrates data services at scale.

The following image shows the usage of advanced Azure analytics capabilities along with Power BI:

Cortana works on data in Azure stores, such as Azure DB, Azure DW, and Azure Data Lake, as well...