1. Add intelligence to Dynamics AX with Cortana Intelligence suite
Microsoft 2016
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Add intelligence to Dynamics AX with Cortana Intelligence suite
Milinda Vitharana
Principal Program Manager
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2. 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 …

3. Customer journey from data to action…
Build 2015
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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
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4. 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

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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
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6. DEMO: ready-made analytics in Dynamics AX
Milinda Vitharana

7. Ready-made Analytic content
Available now
Coming in fall release

8. Dynamics AX Entity store

9. 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

10. 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
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11. DEMO: getting data out of Dynamics AX with Entity store
Milinda Vitharana

12. Microsoft Cognitive Services

13. 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?

14. Advanced analytic solutions

15. DEMO: Product recommendations solution
Milinda Vitharana

16. Retail Recommendations in Dynamics AX
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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
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17. 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

18. 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

19. What customers are saying …
2 case slides from Akshey

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

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