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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

Architecture and concepts


As we learned earlier in Chapter 3, Architecture and Deployment, development experience and architecture has completely changed and been modernized in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition, as compared to the earlier version, Dynamics AX 2012. Many new concepts have been introduced and many have been changed. In this section, we will explore these new and changed development concepts in detail.

Programming language 

The X++ language remains the vehicle a developing application for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. Those who don't know what X++ is, it is a native programming language used in the development of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition since the beginning of the product known as Axapta.

X++ is an object-oriented language with similarities to C# and provides SQL-like constructs for data selection and manipulation. In Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition...