The following topics describe the highlights of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations:
- Modern: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition is a modern, cloud-first, and mobile-first ERP solution. Microsoft has completely rewritten the technology platform and user interface from its previous version, Dynamics AX 2012. Just to name few advancement, new version comes with; cloud-first Azure deployment, modern HTML 5 client, mobile app, Power BI integration and modern integration capabilities and so on.
- Work anywhere, anytime, and on any device: The new user experience is optimized for multiple platforms and mobile apps. The clean, modern and intuitive browser-based UI is a pleasure to use and easy to learn. All business logic is available any time, any place, on any device.
- Business Intelligence: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition brings the power of Cloud to light up state of the art business intelligence options such as Power BI, Cognitive services, and artificial intelligence. Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations comes with a near real-time operational data store called entity store for analytics and BI reporting. Entity store uses in memory, clustered columnstore index (CCI) functionality that is built into Microsoft SQL Server to optimize reporting and queries. Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition comes with many out of the box Power BI content packs from Microsoft and also provides the ability for partners and customers to author their own power bi content pack and distribute it through the market place.
- Productivity: Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition keeps the productivity as core on its product and user interface design. Integration with productivity tools such as Office 365 has taken things to a new level, and the ability for business users to use their favorite apps such as Excel to export, edit, and publish data back to an application has never been so easy. New concept workspaces takes productivity to a new level by providing information around a process. All the dependencies and answers to questions around a given process are available through a single page. Task guides make it easier to on board new staff and train them on process with step by step instructions while minimizing the learning curve.
- Predictable and repeatable implementations: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition brings Lifecycle Services (LCS) to the next level. With LCS customer and implementation partners can manage their application Lifecycle and move towards predictable, repeatable, and high quality implementations. LCS is mandatory for any implementation project and allows customers and implementation partners to manage their implementation project from the project planning, deployment, and configuration, to monitoring and post go live support. LCS provides best practices and standards for implementation projects.