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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

By : Rahul Mohta, Yogesh Kasat, JJ Yadav
Book Image

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

Mobile platform


Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition includes support for mobile apps, allowing reusability of business logic and modeling the app right from core product. The mobile app is being made available for most popular mobile operating systems.

This mobile platform enables rich offline and mobile interactions, and an easy-to-use designer experience. The mobile platform also makes it easy to change forms and mobile app definitions to include customizations that are made to the larger product.

Developing these apps is not quite tough; developers can create simplified forms in Microsoft Visual Studio and then design mobile pages that expose this functionality. The mobile app platform doesn’t assume connectivity to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. Activities such as navigation, data view, and data entry don’t require server connectivity after data has been cached.

The mobile platform communicates with Application Object Server...