- Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Preparing for a Great Start
- 2. Getting into the Details Early
- 3. Infrastructure Planning and Design
- The Dynamics AX components and architecture
- Planning the system topology
- Cloud deployment
- Industry best practices and recommendations
- Summary
- 4. Integration Planning and Design
- Integration planning
- Integration technologies
- Integration design and development
- Best practices and recommendations
- Summary
- 5. Data Migration – Scoping through Delivery
- Managing scope – simplifying data migration through rightsizing the scope
- The design and development phase
- Data mapping and transformation
- Planning the data migration
- Selecting the tools for data migration
- The Data Import/Export Framework
- Data migration execution tips
- Initial templates for business
- Extracting source data into SQL tables
- Never rename/repurpose fields
- Considering premigration steps
- Considering postmigration steps
- Changing SQL to simple recovery mode
- Multithreading and max DOP
- Index and statistics maintenance
- Disabling the AX logging
- Considering SQL updates on migrated data
- The SQL import – through caution and expertise
- Managing configurations
- Configuration management simplified with DIXF
- Reviewing and deciding on the configuration
- Data validation
- A classic example of a data migration issue in projects
- Summary
- 6. Reporting and BI
- Gathering BI and reporting requirements
- Knowing about reporting tools
- Mapping reports and identifying gaps
- The custom report development
- Summary
- 7. Functional and Technical Design
- 8. Configuration Management
- Configuration planning
- Collecting the configuration data
- Configuration tools
- Configuration data management
- Summary
- 9. Building Customizations
- Getting ready for development
- The development process
- Conceptualization
- Data design
- The business logic
- The user interface
- Security
- Coding best practices
- The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Summary
- 10. Performance Tuning
- 11. Testing and Training
- 12. Go-live Planning
- 13. Post Go-live
- Initial stabilization
- Proactive preparation – what's coming
- Post-implementation review
- Why post-implementation review?
- Key factors to get the most out of PIR
- Preparing for PIR
- Pain points from experience
- Post-implementation review – an AX 2012 customer
- Current state – key challenges
- The unused potential of Dynamics AX
- Improvement opportunities – processes and systems
- New features from the next release
- Summary
- 14. Upgrade
- When to upgrade
- Upgrading options
- The Dynamics AX upgrade process
- Summary
- Index
JJ Yadav has worked on Microsoft Dynamics AX for more than a decade as a solutions architect, project manager, technical lead, and developer. He started working on Axapta 3.0 as a developer with Euro Info Systems in India (now Tectura India). He has experience in leading and managing several Dynamics AX Global implementations and upgrade projects. His core technical expertise in Dynamics AX includes infrastructure planning, integration services, data migration, and workflow. He has extensive functional experience in financials, procurement, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory and warehouse management, and the service modules of Dynamics AX. Currently, he works as a senior technical project manager with Ignify in the central region of the U.S. on a leading Global AX 2012 R3 implementation project.
I would like to thank my family, friends, and coworkers for their support and inspiration. My sincere thanks to my uncle, Radhe Shyam, for his support during the most difficult time of my life; without his support and inspiration, I would not be where I am today. Finally, my beautiful wife, Khushboo, for supporting and encouraging me at every walk of life and all the patience and support during the hours and weekends that I spent writing this book.
My sincere gratitude to my longtime coworker and coauthor, Yogesh Kasat, for coming up with the idea of writing this book and making me a part of it. I would like to thank my reviewer, Stephanie Kroese, all the other reviewers, and Packt Publishing for providing valuable feedback and comments during the creation of this book.
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