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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

Build and continuous updates


As the development phase of your project starts, you need ability to your final solution including customization (Creating deployable package) and deploy to test environment for validation and testing. Building solution manually every time, developer change something in the code is time consuming and is not worth specially when there is simple and easy way to automate. In large implementation projects, when you have multiple team working on multiple features, this build automation becomes more critical. In this section we will go through the automated build and testing process of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. 

Automated build

Unlike previous version, where source control and automated process was left optional vendors and customers, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition standardize the development application life cycle by providing the build automation out the the box using VSTS. No matter you using cloud...