Add intelligence to Dynamics AX with Cortana Intelligence suite Microsoft 2016 9/17/2018 10:44 PM BRK3275 Add intelligence to Dynamics AX with Cortana Intelligence suite Milinda Vitharana Principal Program Manager © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

AGENDA Journey from Data to Action… Ready-made Analytic content for Dynamics AX Entity store: “getting data out of Dynamics AX” Cognitive services: “ready-made algorithms” Building advanced analytic solutions Cortana Intelligence Suite What customers are saying …

Customer journey from data to action… Build 2015 9/17/2018 10:44 PM Customer journey from data to action… Data Recommendations What should I do? Decision automation Decision support Decision Action Predictions What will happen? Interactive dashboards Why did it happen? Static reports What happened? Manual process Value © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Customer journey from static reports to interactive data exploration Built-in experiences, operational Business documents, high volume printing Financial statements Data exploration Chart controls SSRS operational reporting Management reporter Power BI

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016 9/17/2018 10:44 PM Journey from data exploration to recommendations with Cortana Intelligence Suite Dynamics AX AX Operational DB Entity store Cortana intelligence Microsoft services & content Dynamics AX Power BI content Embedded Power BI Reports Tools and frameworks Intelligent business processes People Machine learning Cognitive services Customer/partner content and apps Power BI content Embedded Power BI reports Attached business apps Intelligent business processes Power BI Data Intelligence Action © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

DEMO: ready-made analytics in Dynamics AX Milinda Vitharana

Ready-made Analytic content Available now Coming in fall release

Dynamics AX Entity store

Entity store for Dynamics AX An extensible data store for advanced analytics on operational data from Dynamics AX and other systems Reporting data Near real-time data sync from Dynamics AX Rich data modeling using Dynamics AX metadata Auto-generated Power BI models, secured using Dynamics AX roles Enables citizen developers to create rich visual experiences and Apps Predictions and recommendations using Cortana Intelligence suite Ingest IoT and external data for mash-ups with Dynamics AX data Auto provisioned with Dynamics AX – no need for separate VMs/DBs Other systems Sensors & devices

Entity store vs. BYODB TechReady 23 9/17/2018 10:44 PM Scenario (provided with Dynamics AX) Export Entities to your DB (Bring your own DB) Power BI integration Direct query (near real-time) access to Dynamics AX data Combine Dynamics AX data with your own data Cortana Intelligence suite integration Intelligent Business processes Attached solutions built on data Integrate with other BI tools n/a Recommended Non-BI integration scenarios (ie. T-SQL access to DB) Recommended (along with other integration options) IoT + AX analytics We will support this scenario in the future Possible today © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

DEMO: getting data out of Dynamics AX with Entity store Milinda Vitharana

Microsoft Cognitive Services

CIS Speaker notes Show the website Overview of Cognitive services Show text analytics on the web site It’s easy … show sentiment analysis with an Excel worksheet?

Advanced analytic solutions

DEMO: Product recommendations solution Milinda Vitharana

Retail Recommendations in Dynamics AX Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016 9/17/2018 10:44 PM Retail Recommendations in Dynamics AX Dynamics AX AX Operational DB Entity store Cortana intelligence Retail POS People Cognitive services Recommendations Data factory Data Intelligence Action © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Cortana Intelligence suite incorporates industry-leading Microsoft solutions Data Sources Apps Sensors and devices Data Information management Event hubs Data catalog Data factory Big data stores SQL data warehouse Data lake store Machine learning and analytics HDInsight (Hadoop and Spark) Stream analytics Data lake analytics Machine learning Intelligence Dashboards and visualizations Cortana Bot framework Cognitive services Power BI People Automated systems Apps Web Mobile Bots Intelligence Action

Approaches to integrate external data Data mash-ups Integrate into AX Entity Store Data Lake Scenario Ad-hoc or Departmental Most data in AX, Need external data in AX Most data in AX, combined with external data Many systems, Big data, disparate schemas Who can build them Power user AX developer AX + BI developer BI developer Tools to use Excel or Power BI desktop Leverage pre-built content & AX tools SQL & BI tools Cortana Intelligence Suite (Azure DL, DW..) Costs to implement Low Low ~ Med High Time to implement Min ~ Hrs Days Weeks ~ Months Expertise needed Med

What customers are saying … 2 case slides from Akshey

Try this at home … Links to Resources and demo site Data summit

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