What is Microsoft Dynamics AX?

Microsoft Dynamics AX is an integrated ERP application designed for midsize to large companies operating in the global marketplace. Microsoft Dynamics AX is well suited for businesses that require expertise in manufacturing, distribution, supply – chain management, customer relationship management, financial management, human resource management, project management, and business analytics.

Why Microsoft Dynamics AX?

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides all the tools and capabilities you need to create a clear picture of your customers and drive greater business success and profitability By helping midsize businesses reduce risk, cut costs, and generate growth, we work with Microsoft to provide you with outstanding technology for better business outcomes. With modules for sales, marketing, and customer service, Microsoft Dynamics AX delivers a fast, flexible, and affordable solution that helps you to create consistent and measurable improvements in your customer relationships – a key to driving greater business success and profitability.

• Maintain high availability
• Manage risk
• Deliver against established service-level agreements
• Satisfy compliance requirements

• Protect resources from external or internal attack or misuse
• Protect data from unauthorized access
• Benefit from solutions that are easy to use and transparent

• Reduce complexity and cost of infrastructure
• Reduce staff training requirements
• Improve responsiveness of IT team
• Adapt processes to customer priorities

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Microsoft Dynamics AX - Application Architecture

Microsoft Dynamics AX typically operates as a three-tier application. The Microsoft Dynamics AX client connects to the AOS server, which, in turn connect to the back end database server. The client application runs on either user workstations or on a terminal server, which is often chosen to improve application responsiveness and security. The AOS servers act as scalable application servers that execute business logic for clients, then access and manipulate data in the Microsoft SQL Server. As the number of concurrent users’ increases, more AOS servers can be added, scaling out the business logic layer. The database server can also be clustered when you are using a shared storage solution, creating a highly available application.

Microsoft Dynamics AX – Sure Step Implementation Methodology

Microsoft’s Sure Step Methodology is a proven methodology adopted by Microsoft partners to capitalize on successful implementation best practices. We adopt this methodology to help you reduce implementation risk and lower implementation cost “one step at a time”.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX - Example configuration

Using design principles of simple & affordable, we have developed a set of example configurations for Microsoft Dynamics AX servers and storage that are appropriate for midsize businesses. These configurations help take the complexity out of choosing the right infrastructure platform for your business, while meeting your needs for continuity, security and efficiency. For midsize Microsoft Dynamics AX deployments the application layer is split from the database server to improve performance, there are at least two scenarios in which this configuration is likely to be recommended:

• Businesses with as few as 25 concurrent users but which have a wide variety of business modules in use.
• Businesses with up to 75 users and general ERP workloads such as financials and sales order processing.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX - Other configurations

Each provides benefits ranging from low cost of entry to enhanced growth, management, and availability. And each type of configurations is appropriate for particular situations. Among them are: Single server deployments Integrated infrastructure with Microsoft Dynamics AX along side a complete Microsoft Windows infrastructure in a Blade Server; High availability scale out deployment for up to 250 concurrent users on a Blade Server and Storage Area Network Hardware; however these suggestions provide only a small sampling of the variety of available options.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX - Related technologies and services

External storage options The configurations shown in this brief includes guidance on the recommended Storage Area Network solutions and disk configurations for typical developments. However your situation may be unique and only you can know your exact data capacity reqirements. Microsoft Dynamics AX is highly flexible and as a result, solution providers can create a customized solution tailored specifically to your needs.

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For More information on Microsoft Dynamics AX

By helping midsize businesses reduce risk, cut costs, and generate growth, we work with Microsoft to provide you with outstanding technology for better business outcomes. Please contact us for further information and a demo

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