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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

Basic integration concepts


To understand the integration concepts in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition better, it is important to know the basic web integration concepts first. In this section, we will learn the basic web concepts, such as RESTful APIs, SOAP, OData, JSON, and OAuth.

RESTful APIs

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architecture style that on six constraints: stateless, client-server, cacheable, layered system, code on demand (optional), and uniform interface. Web server APIs adhere to the REST architecture are called RESTful APIs.

Many modern internet applications, such as Microsoft Azure, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Paypal, and Amazon, use RESTful architecture style in their APIs, which allows easy integration over HTTP communication protocol. The primary reason RESTful APIs are useful in cloud and web applications is because the calls are stateless. This means each requests or interactions are independent, there can be nothing saved that...