Microsoft Dynamics is all set for Dynamics AX2012 R2 release.
With this enhanced release lot of exciting features will be added to the
product.
As per the details featured in the technical conference this
release will have stronger focus on new functionality with industries specific
& administrative processes.
Few of the major enhancement includes
1) Industry Focused
Enhancements
Manufacturing
Improve manufacturing operations for process manufacturing. Like
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New capability for management of potency,
traceability and product batch sequencing to help process manufacturing
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Potency management enables management of the
concentration of an active ingredient through the entire manufacturing process.
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In addition, the improvement of traceability
where important attributes are generated and captured during the manufacturing
process can also be transferred to subsequent lots.
Retail
Many enchantments like
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You can manage your assortments across channels
in your retail operations.
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New multi- and cross-channel capabilities for
retail organizations, including catalogue management, cross-channel workflows,
and integrated sales channel management will include a new “out of the box” web storefront offering based on the new
version of SharePoint 2013.
Public Sector
Many enchantments like
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An easy / simple financial budgeting process in
public sector organizations by combining the power of Microsoft Excel with the power of the workflow engine inside of
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
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New capabilities in budget formulation with
workflow approvals, flexible tracking, and reporting.
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Will also enable complex budgetary requirements
using Microsoft Excel as well as integration with financial budget
transactions, position and payroll data to enable budgetary control.
Professional Services
Many enchantments like
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Improved utilization of resources across your
organization.
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Improvements in the intercompany scheduling
capability of project resources will specifically benefit services organization
with resources and projects across multiple entities.
2) Improved Business
Insights End Users
This ranges from easy operational reporting, to measuring
business performance through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and benchmarking as well as to providing deep analysis and
actionable insights powered by new rich visualizations technology.
Specifically, in this release the focus is
- New and
updated KPI content
- Where we deliver a set
of new and updated KPIs that will come with the SQL BI cubes shipped with
the release. These KPIs will surface on the different role centers.
- Enabling
the usage of the new Power view technology
- Introduced in
Microsoft SQL Server 2012. This will help users to discover new insights
through a highly interactive and familiar data visualization technology.
3) Increase Global
Reach And Simplify International Operations
- Microsoft
Dynamics AX with Increased the global reach
- New
localization for 11 new markets (Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Estonia,
Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia),
- Extending
the reach for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to support 36 localizations worldwide.
4) Simplified Application
Lifecycle – An Easy Way To Manage Application
This will add the following key benefits
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Simplified single instance international ERP
deployment scenarios up to simplifying setup and functional implementation with
new and improved lifecycle services.
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Parallel to this release existing lifecycle
services update (including Rapid Start services)
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And new services addition
Some other examples:
- Code Analyzer will help analyze
the performance of custom code based on rules in the design phase of an
extension by customers or partners.
- Data Migration Framework will
support import, export and migration of data to/from Microsoft Dynamics AX
2012 in the deployment phase. It will cover over 20 scenarios including
customer, vendor, product, employee, BOM, open sales and purchase order
data, which can be extended by partners and customers.
- Diagnostics Framework will assist
by analyzing data collected from the installation’s servers based on rules
in the maintenance phase of your Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
environment(s).
At the end it is quite exciting with the list of such enhancements.
This is scheduled to be released by 1st Dec 2012.
Happy Consulting!
