Dynamics AX is built on a number of foundation products from Microsoft that are used to make it bigger, better, and stronger than the average business system. Taking advantage of these products will make your life easier. Use these tools to maximize the efficiency of your business management, taking advantage of a powerful and centralized tool set. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to use tools that you already have to extend out Dynamics AX and discover potential new directions. You will be surprised at what you can do on a shoestring budget. The book will...

Das neue Dynamics AX beinhaltet grosse Anderungen im Vergleich zu vorhergehenden Releases. Ein Grossteil der Modifikationen betreffen die neue webbasierende Benutzeroberflache, die Art und Weise wie Sie sich innerhalb der Applikation bewegen und neue Sets von Werkzeugen, die ebenfalls erganzt wurden. Diejenigen unter Ihnen, die mit dem alteren Benutzerinterface vertraut sind, werden eine Menge neuer Tricks lernen mussen, um das System wie ein Profi handhaben zu konnen, und neue Anwender der neuen Dynamics AX Umgebung wollen sicherlich soviele Tips wie moglich erhalten uber all die "coolen"...

Dynamics is a great product, because anyone is able to master the basics with just a little bit of a test drive. As you use it more, you will probably stumble on feature that no-one mentioned that makes Dynamics AX even better, and you store it away in your back pocket to use later on. The more you use the system, the more of these you will find, and with enough of these you turn from just a User to a Power User. To give you a head start though we have compiled 50 of the most useful tricks and tips that you can take advantage of within Dynamics AX. They range from tips on tweaking the...

When you are first introduced to Dynamics AX, it may seem a little overwhelming because there is so much that it is able to do. It may seem like you've been dropped in a completely foreign land, unable to speak the language, and not knowing which direction to start walking in. It may be even worse if you are in the middle of a software selection where you are looking at a number of different options (including Dynamics AX) because you need to understand what the differences are, and also remember which feature applies to which application. In that case, you are in multiple foreign lands, and...

Once you have mastered the core functions within Dynamics AX like Order To Cash, Procure To Pay, or Production you don't need to stop looking for things to do. Your journey has just begun because you now have the foundation for some even more exciting features, and they aren't very hard to configure either. The big hurdle is to know what you can do, and also how to get there. This book is aimed to demystify some of the additional features within Dynamics AX that you may want to configure and start using, and will show you how to: Create configured products Improve costing analysis through...

Dynamics is a great product, because anyone is able to master the basics with just a little bit of a test drive. As you use it more, you will probably stumble on feature that no-one mentioned that makes Dynamics AX even better, and you store it away in your back pocket to use later on. The more you use the system, the more of these you will find, and with enough of these you turn from just a User to a Power User. After releasing the initial set of tips and tricks, I realized that I had enough additional tips for a second volume containing 50 more tricks and tips that you can take advantage of...

There are a lot of workflow templates that are delivered with Dynamics AX 2012, but that doesn't mean that those are the only ones that you can use. Developing new workflow templates and actions are pretty straight forward and you can easily extend out the system to incorporate other workflow scenarios that have not been added yet. In this blueprint we will work through one example and show you how you can develop your own workflow process for product approvals that allow you to submit, track and approve the product review process.

The Task Recorder has always been a useful tool within Dynamics AX, but with the release of Lifecycle Services, it has been upgraded to become even more useful. Now the Task Recorder includes the ability to group your recordings into separate frameworks for different purposes, and also allows you to create a hierarchy structure that you can use to organize your tasks and recordings. In addition to being able to export your task recordings out to Word etc. for off-line documentation, it also allows you to package up all of the business process structures and import them into Lifecycle Services...

Perhaps you have heard about the new tool in Excel 2010, PowerPivot, but wonder how it can enhance your use of Excel. In this blueprint we will show how PowerPivot can assist you with advanced data analysis and reporting, making those extracts from Dynamics AX to Excel even more valuable.