Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide: Your all-in-one guide to exploring and implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX - Softcover

Yogesh Kasat; JJ Yadav

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785288962 ISBN 13: 9781785288968

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Your all-in-one guide to exploring and implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX

About This Book

• From project kick-off to go live and upgrade, learn what to expect in each phase of the project
• This book guides you through the entire journey of a Dynamics AX implementation project, helping you to avoid the common pitfalls and adapt industry knowledge and best practices for your own project
• This one-stop guide is packed with key tools and techniques to aid your Dynamics AX implementation

Who This Book Is For

This book is for IT project managers, solution architects, and consultants who are planning to implement or are in the process of implementing or upgrading Dynamics AX. To use this book, you must have a working Dynamics AX system in place and must be familiar with the basics of Dynamics AX.

What You Will Learn

• Prepare for a great start with effective project management and planning from the beginning
• Gather details early using effective requirement-gathering tools and techniques
• Gain tools and techniques for effective infrastructure planning and hardware sizing
• Get to grips with integration and data migration through planning and strategy
• Familiarize yourself with the reporting and BI tools
• Master functional and technical design to customize existing features and designs in your own projects
• Manage your configuration and you're your configuration from one environment to another
• Learn industry's best practices and recommendations on customization development and performance tuning

In Detail

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.

About this title

About the Author

Yogesh Kasat is a founding partner of Real Dynamics and has led more than 20 full-cycle ERP implementations and upgrade projects, working closely with several CFOs to design solutions for better visibility into inventory levels, costs, and aging, as well as improving collection processes and reducing open accounts receivables. His experience with company splits and mergers enables him to design straightforward solutions with better support for shared services, budget planning, and financial reporting. Yogesh is also a Microsoft-recognized Fasttrack Solutions Architect.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785288962
• ISBN 13: 9781785288968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298