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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, you learned about one of the final phases of the implementation project, Go Live. Go Live is exciting, but is also the most hectic and intense period of the project. Cloud has changed the way a production environment is managed and updated. Roles and responsibilities have changed. We started with understanding how a production environment's responsibilities vary based on the deployment model you selected for your project. In the cloud deployment model, Microsoft is responsible for managing the production infrastructure, and in on-premise deployment, the responsibility is on the customers and partners. We discussed Go Live activities to understand what all goes during the Go Live phase of the project. The decision of going live or not is not easy and needs many considerations. We went through the topic to describe all you need to understand to make that decision, the different sign offs you need, how it can be difficult for project managers and stakeholders to make...