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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

Summary


In this chapter, we began with understanding the architecture and new development concepts. Developer experience is completely changed, Visual studio is new development environment, X++ has become managed language and fully compile into CIL just like C#. Extensions is new customization, overlayering is still possible but going to be eliminated soon. Development is done now in pre-configured VMs, you can deploy a development environment in the cloud or download a VHD and do development on-premise. Visual studio team services is used for source control and automated build. We learned in detail, about the development process in operations, starting with conceptualizing the solution, understanding the importance of effective data design, implementing business logic, user interface development ,analytics and reporting. We learned the common best practices and recommendations for coding in X++. In the end, we learned how build automation can be used in the development life cycle along...