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Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

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Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that supports multi-site operations across various countries, providing international processing within the company. It is an ERP solution with a lot of features and functionality, and it provides support across the fields of financial, distribution, supply chain, project, customer relationship, HR, and field service management. This book is all about simplifying the overall implementation process of Dynamics AX. The purpose of this book is to help IT managers and solution architects implement Dynamics AX to increase the success rate of Dynamics AX projects. This all-in-one guide will take you through an entire journey of a Dynamics AX implementation, ensuring you avoid commonly-made mistakes during implementation. You’ll begin with the installation of Dynamics AX and the basic requirements. Then, you’ll move onto data migration, reporting, functional and technical design, configuration, and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you will know how to plan and execute Dynamics AX right, on your first attempt, using insider industry knowledge and best practices.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Testing and Training
Index

Chapter 14. Upgrade

A Dynamics AX implementation is a big investment. Post implementation, organizations spend thousands of dollars on maintaining and extending the system on business process improvement projects to gain the real ROI of the new platform. At the same time, Microsoft invests millions of dollars on its research and development organization by using leading-edge technologies for platform and functionality improvements, which enable new features within their core product.

An upgrade enables the customers to get these functionality and technology improvements by moving to the latest versions. At the same time, upgrading to new versions can be overwhelming and can cost significantly high in terms of dollars, critical resource time, and potential business disruptions.

Dynamics AX or any ERP upgrade is not like a Windows upgrade where you start the upgrade and your system backs up on the new platform in a few hours. Upgrading of an ERP system requires extensive planning, preparation...