Topic: ‘AX News’

Registration is now open for Convergence 2011.  It is being held from April 10-13, 2011 in Atlanta, GA.  Convergence is the premier Microsoft Dynamics event where you can experience first-hand how you can optimize your business and improve your bottom line.  Don’t hesitate — register for Convergence today!

Microsoft Press has released Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 as a book application for the iPhone.  This book is a must have for many AX professionals.  The app features the full version of the book, full text search, dictionary, and the ability to add notes.  And at $5.99, it’s a great value over the $40-$70 for the tree-and-pulp version.  It’s available here.  (iTunes required).

If anyone knows of pdf version of this book (or any other AX book), please let us know.

The MS Dynamics AX Sustained Engineering Team has confirmed that Windows 7 is compatible with AX 4.0 SP2 and Dynamics AX 2009 RMT and SP1 (read MS results here – customer or partnersource required).  Not a real surprise and also nice to confirm compatibility with AX 4.0 SP2.  The team also used the opportunity to announce compatibility with Server 2008 R2 and SP2.

Microsoft has recently released a second wave of new and updated AX2009 training manuals. They are available on CustomerSource.

https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/training/trainingmaterials/student

• Inventory Costing and Validation
• CRM in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
• Application Integration Framework
• Reporting and Business Intelligence
• Expense Management
• Warehouse Management

Microsoft just announced another round of great incentives for Dynamics AX and the other Dyanmics ERP and CRM offerings.  Part of the incentive focuses on great financing terms, and part is a great incentive to move from JD Edwards and Sage.

From the press release:

“…. in an effort to make it easier for companies to move from outdated and costly business applications to Microsoft’s modern ERP solutions, the company will make available a set of competitively focused offerings in the U.S. specifically targeted at customers who may not be receiving the levels of innovation that they expect from their current vendor. Starting in May, select partners will be able to extend their customers an offer to move to a Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution with a 50 percent discount on licensing, and receive a rebate equal to 25 percent of the suggested retail price of the Microsoft Dynamics solution (up to a maximum of $25,000) to help offset the costs of switching from Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200, or Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne .”

There’s a great deal of buzz about the Sun+Oracle deal and what it means. 

Om Malik on Gigaom.com does a great job breaking down the deal.

Thomas Wailgum on CIO.com explains why a certain German software maker may be the “Biggest Loser” in the deal.

Robert McMillian in PCWorld thinks Microsoft will be the big winner, given customers will have one less database vendor and general confusion in the hardware space will send HP into a closer relationship with Microsoft.

Eric Krangel tells us why the deal is a real opportunity for Microsoft.

 I finally got around to playing with the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Dynamics AX.  In case you missed the announcement, it is a free toolset that enables users to measure key indicators related to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (KEIs ??). 

Here’s the Demo video.  Here’s the link to the dashboard (Partner Link required).