1. Johan Olsson Microsoft AB Microsoft Dynamics - Innovations

2. Introduction Microsoft Dynamics ERP content Module 1 Dynamics Application Platform Module 2: Look & Feel AX 4.0 Module 3: What’s new in AX 4.0 technical Module 4 Q and A

3. Enhanced user experience Workflow & process-centric design “Best of” application functionality Simple, model driven development & customization Role-based user experience Office server portals and collaboration SQL contextual business intelligence (BI) Easy integration & extensibility via web services Microsoft Dynamics Roadmap Demonstration Microsoft Dynamics Roadmap

4. Portals and Collaboration Contextual Business Intelligence Role-Based User Experience Web Services Role-based User Experience Portals and Collaboration Contextual Business Intelligence Web Service-based Composition and Integration Demonstration Reliability: Microsoft Dynamics Roadmap

5. Microsoft Application Platform

6. SQL Server Generations History of Innovation SQL Server 7.0 SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2000 Lowest TCO Automatic Tuning Reliability & Security Integrated Business Intelligence High availability High availability Security Security Developer productivity Developer productivity Native XML Native XML First to include Enterprise ETL & Deep Data Mining First to include Enterprise ETL & Deep Data Mining Performance, scalability focus Performance, scalability focus XML support XML support First to include Notification First to include Notification First to include Data Mining & Reporting First to include Data Mining & Reporting Re-architecture of relational server Re-architecture of relational server Extensive auto resource management Extensive auto resource management First to include OLAP & ETL First to include OLAP & ETL Cross-release objectives SQL Server 6.0/6.5 Differentiation from Sybase SQL Server Differentiation from Sybase SQL Server Windows integration Windows integration First to include Replication First to include Replication 1 st Generation2 nd Generation3 rd Generation

8.  Data acquisition from source systems and integration  Data transformation and synthesis  Data enrichment, with business logic, hierarchical views  Data discovery via data mining  Data presentation and distribution  Data access for everyone IntegrateAnalyzeReport Business Insight SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

9. SQL Server Catalog Report Server XML Web Service Interface Report Processing Scheduling & Delivery Delivery Targets (E-mail, SharePoint, Custom) Rendering Output Formats (HTML, Excel, PDF, Custom) Data Processing Data Sources (SQL, OLE DB, XML/A, ODBC, Oracle, Custom) Security Security Services (NT, Passport, Custom) Office Custom Application Browser

10. Q and A

11. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel –Menu –Forms –Reports –Security –Integration –Interfaces –Cool Stuff

12. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Menu Navigation Pane –New Menu structure (Microsoft Office Look and Feel) –Structure can be modified Favorites Pane –instead of user menu’s –Can be modified Task Pane –Global Search (data crawler) Online help file –Integration with External help file (.chm) Microsoft HTML Help 1.4 SDK Workspaces

13. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Forms Sorting Searching: –Filter by Grid –Filter by Selection –Filter by Field Format –Move –Hide –Rename –Add fields What’s this (.CHM) Templates Print wizard

14. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Alerts Global Search (data crawler)

15. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Reporting Microsoft Dynamics AX Internal Report Generator –Output options: Print, Fax, E-mail, File.. –Print wizard –Integrated Security –Report hyperlinks SQL 2005 Reporting Services –Integration –Reports shown trough Report Manager SQL 2005 Analysis services –OLAP Cubes

16. Creating and Running Ad-hoc Reports Demo shows how Report Builder is invoked and used with models generated by Microsoft Dynamics AX.

17. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Integration Office –Copy and Paste to Excel –Document management Word integration Excel Integration –CRM Outlook integration –Visio integration Technical documentation Active Directory integration HRM / Security OLAP (SQL 2005 Analysis Services) SQL 2005 Reporting Services Application Integration Framework –InfoPath / Web-services Wizard RFID

18. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Trust Worhty Computing (TWC) pillars Business Practice -SharePoint, -Reporting services, -.CHM files Reliability -Upgradeability -Office GUI -Dev Guide: Cookbook -Version Control Privacy -User group setup -Record level Security -New Outlook integration Security -Active Directory Integration -Mandatory 3 tier -AX Code security -Batch Server bound framework -Database log & Audit trail

19. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Web interfaces 2 different interfaces for 2 different purposes Windows client All functionality Some users Web client Some functionality All users

20. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Cool Stuff -Be careful with showing: -Balance scorecard -Shop floor control registration -Tutorial Free Form -Tutorial Tetris -Snap Ins

21. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Look & Feel: Cool Stuff

22. Q and A

23. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Technical overview General Alerts Development Installation and Setup Business intelligence Enterprise portal framework Business connector Application integration framework Upgrade tool

24. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Demonstration General –Adjusting Navigation Pane and Favorites –Global Search Setup –External Help files –Trustworthy computing –Unicode –Integration Active directory / Windows authentication logon SQL 2005 Server (SQL Reporting Services, Analysis Services Unicode support) Sharepoint Portal Services RFID Infrastructure

25. Enterprise Portal Demo shows how we use WSS with in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

26. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Demonstration Alerts (Business Activity Monitoring) –Based on Due dates or database changes –Notification by popup or email –With hyperlink to ether the alert or the source Development environment –Version Control management system Integrated with Visual Source Safe 2005 server Procedure –Check out objects and labels –Check in objects and labels –Reverse engineering (Visio integration) –New debugger (.Net standards) –Common Language Runtime Interoperability (CLR Interop) Access to.Net assemblies

27. CLR Interop and Reverse engineering (Visio integration) Demo shows how we use CLR Interop to execute manages code with in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

28. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Demonstration Installation and setup –Removal of 2-tier, Thick client, web deployment –Integration with Active directory –Database improvements Index management Better language support by using Unicode RECid changes –Ax 3.0: 4,294,967,296 –Ax 4.0: 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 Optimistic concurrency –Application File Server No copy of application folders Anymore Instead AOS manages applications –AOS Improvements Loadbalancing using NLB AOS is true windows service Improved communication between client en server

29. Session Management

30. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Demonstration Business Intelligence –Integration with SQL 2005 Reporting services Using a Semantic Data Model (buidl in AOT) –Native Reporting Engine Enhancements Print drill down –Primary Links –Secondary Links –OLAP Enhanced security Enterprise Portal Framework –Fully integrated with Sharepoint services Sharepoint Web authoring experience Better personalisation Integrated collaboration and content management Integrated Document Management Web framework opened up to existing portals –Based on.Net Business Connector

31. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Demonstration Business connector –.NET BC Replacing the Ax 3.0 com-connector –More stable / faster –All applications using the com connector need to be updated: COM connecter interface adjustments Fit to Windows Authentication Application Integration Framework –Documents based integration (B2B / A2A) –Web services (Intranet use) –Extra- / Intranet use need extra security

32. Integration Technology for the Next Release of Microsoft Dynamics AX

33. Application Integration Framework (AIF) New XML based integration framework –Business-to-Business (B2B) collaboration –Application-to-Application (A2A / EAI) integration Document-oriented interfaces Extensible X++ framework

34. Transaction Types Adapters (File System, MSMQ, BTS, WS) –Send Documents –Receive and Create Documents –Respond to Read Requests Web Service Interface –Request Documents from Axapta –Submit Documents to be created in Axapta Note: Update and delete is not supported out-of-the-box in this release

35. Configuring the AIF

36. Axd Query Original dmo No 1 EUR 4020 No EUR......

37. Creating a Web Service

38. Dynamics AX Web Services Standards –WS-I Basic profile 1.1 compliant –XSD version 1.1 –WSDL version 1.1 –SOAP version 1.1 and 1.2 One web service per document class One method per action Consumed in –InfoPath –Visual Studio –Other applications and custom clients

39. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Upgrade tool 1.It has a detailed process oriented documentation 2.It has a checklist that helps you control the whole upgrade process 3.It has TWC Implemented 4.Strong focus on performance 5.Pre-upgrade of Unicode 6.Documentation of data upgrade jobs 7.Build on top of a new module oriented architecture

40. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Upgrade tool: Implementation guide A detailed process oriented documentation! Step by step guidance –Before you begin –Code upgrade –Data upgrade –Production upgrade Code upgrade Production upgrade Data upgrade Production environment Test environment

41. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Upgrade tool: Pre Data Upgrade –Working on two db’s –Insert information in current 3.0 data base PrivateProject_LeftJustified.xpo PrivateProject_UpgradeColumn List.xpo –Execute the Pre-data upgrade tool

42. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Upgrade tool: Synchronize –Working on one db –Mark obsolete data to be deleted data –Executing jobs - Delete obsolete data, allow duplicates during synchronize –Change the data base –Executing jobs - Move data

43. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Upgrade tool: Synchronization Process Executing jobs using the standard batch server

44. Upgrade paths Major version and Service Pack go through the same upgrade process –Cannot skip a major version –Major versions are 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0 –e.g., no direct upgrade path from 2.5 to 4.0 2.5 4.03.0 SP1SPx... SP1... SP4SP1... SPx

45. What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 How does Microsoft help you? On the CD –Hands on Labs –Demo Scripts –Video’s –Laymans Spec’s

46. Preparation How does Microsoft help you? Technical Demonstration Toolkit Rapid configuration Toolkit Microsoft Dynamics AX Sales Prototype https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/sales/salestools/demos/axaptasalesprototype.htm/ Microsoft Dynamics AX Demoservers.com https://axapta.demoservers.com/?o=null&t=partner/register On CD –Microsoft Dynamics AX Sales Prototype –Axapta Tools overview PPT –Microsoft Dynamics AX_Tools and Collateral Overview doc –Telephone Pre Sales Tech Support.pdf

47. Qualify How does Microsoft help you? Partnersource/sales & marketing/competitive information. https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/sales/marketing/competitiveinformation/ Positioning guides https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/products/axapta/sales/salestools/positioningguides/ Solution Finder http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/solutionfinder.mspx/ Partner Channel Builder: http://partner.microsoft.com/global/40010230/ Partnersource / solutions / Axapta / industry builder link https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/events/webseminars/AX_IndBuilder_LiveMeetings.htm/ On CD –AX Competition PPT –MBS Q1 2006 Win Loss Trend Report –HQ ERP Roadshow –Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 fact sheets –AX Industry Builder Q&A –Draft pricelist & supplement for AX 4.0 –Industry Builder Initiative video

48. Demonstration How does Microsoft help you? Customer stories http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/casestudies_axapta.mspx Strategy and roadmap https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/resources/strategy/ GotDotNet http://www.gotdotnet.com/default.aspx?lc=1033/http://www.gotdotnet.com/default.aspx?lc=1033/ On CD - Master slide decks 4.0 - Nucleus ROI - BDM (Business decision maker) - Microsoft Dynamics AX Snap Ins

49. Scoping & quotation How does Microsoft help you? Microsoft Dynamics Technical Presales Advisory Group (TPAG) https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/communities/consulting/mbsconsult ingservices/tpag.htm?printpage=false/ Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/documents/partnernewsitems/mbs_ consulting_announce_0702.htm?printpage=false/ On DVD –Hardware sizing guide for less then 100 users –Hardware sizing guide for less then 250 users –Price list –Fact sheets

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