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| About Microsoft Dynamics AX |
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Microsoft Dynamics AX - Business Analysis helps provide the power needed to quickly transform business data into knowledge and strategic action.
Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Axapta) is an adaptable business-management solution that enables you and your people to make business decisions with confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like familiar Microsoft software such as Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft SQL Server. The result: The capability to build on investments in systems and software that your company might already useĦXplus, a familiar working environment that helps lower learning curves and helps users focus less on technology and more on their business goals.
| Benefit from smooth implementation, customizations, and modifications |
Microsoft Dynamics AX is an all-in-one solution that can scale as your company grows. You can use the functions you need now and unlock additional capabilities as your needs change and multiply. With the MorphX development environment, developers can design, edit, and compile within a single screenĦXand have changes appear within minutes.
Easy to implement, customize, and modify
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Provides the same version of code for Web and Microsoft Windows clients, which can lead to simpler, less expensive development and IT costs. |
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Because of the layered technology of Microsoft Dynamics AX, customizations can be easier to build and maintain. You can customize one layer without affecting the functionality of other layers. This means that you can adapt and upgrade your solution over time with less disruption to business, risk, and expense. |
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Microsoft Dynamics AX works like familiar Microsoft software such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies, and Microsoft Office products, which means less of a learning curve for your people, so they can get up and running quickly and focus on what's most important. |
Works well with your existing systems
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Developed alongside other Microsoft software, it can bring you tighter integration and more seamless connectivity between products such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office programs, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. |
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Works together with different Microsoft-developed document formats used by Microsoft Office Outlook messaging and collaboration client, Microsoft Office Word, and Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet software. |
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You can connect with external data sources using Web services as well as industry standard technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Component Object Model (COM) integration, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Microsoft .NET Framework, stored procedures, XBRL, and XML. |
Advanced technology supports your growing business
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The three-tier, object-oriented architecture of Microsoft Dynamics AX integrates with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, offering you high-speed server-side performance and the capability to scale your IT infrastructure easily, so the solution can grow with your company. |
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Unlike some business management systems that force you to use specialized tool sets, Microsoft Dynamics AX uses standard adapters based on SQL Server Reporting Services and the Microsoft Visual Studio. NET development system. This instantly enables you to access a wide variety of industry-standard integration protocols and trained integration partners that you can use to connect to the business management solutions of your business partners. |
Case in point
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See how a company providing safety and security-enhancement services found that the flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics AX made implementation fast and smoothĦXand gave them a base they could build on. Read the customer story. |
| Capitalize on global opportunities |
Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed so that new sites, languages, currencies, and local functionality can be enabled easily, helping your company take advantage of the global marketplace quickly. For example, healthcare company, Fresnius, found that Microsoft Dynamics AX gave it an affordable and fast way to implement a business management solution at worldwide subsidiaries.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX gives you built-in multisite, multilanguage, and multicurrency capabilities in 36 countries and 40 languages as well as local tax, regulatory, and market requirements. |
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Unicode compliance means that you can access new regions and transport data through many different systems with less risk of data corruption. And Unicode compliance enables you to integrate with subsidiaries where the language might use a multibit character set such as China and Japan. |
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Microsoft Dynamics AX enables you to give your customers security-enhanced access to the business information they want over the Internet. This helps your customers enter sales orders and get shipment status, account balances, and inventory stock levels 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world. |
| Meet your industry-specific needs |
Microsoft Dynamics AX has out-of-the-box tools and modules that meet various industry requirements. Microsoft also works closely with its partners around the globe in a structured way to help them develop and support you with solutions designed to meet your specific industries needs.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX provides supply chain management functionality such as radio frequency identification (RFID) support, an inventory closing solution, manufacturing and distribution improvements, and advanced intercompany functionality. |
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Extend Microsoft Dynamics AX functionality with industry-specific functionality backed by Microsoft with the Industry Builder Initiative. |
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Access thousands of vertical solutions provided by partners to meet your specific business needs via the Microsoft Solution Finder. |
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Use out-of-the-box reporting, statistics, and budgeting/forecasting functionality. |
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Take advantage of the Service Management module targeted at manufacturing organizations that service complex machines and equipment on a periodic or call-initiated basis. |
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Microsoft Dynamics AX helps you comply with new regulations in specific industries such as FDA CFR 21 Part 11 and EU Directives, outlining good manufacturing process (GMP) requirements for companies in the life sciences industry. |
| Manufacturers: Get leaner with more efficient processes |
Microsoft Dynamics AX can be tailored to support the exact needs of a manufacturing business. The powerful combination of out-of-the-box functionality and ease of customization delivers a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The solution has broad functionality that supports build-to-order, engineer-to-order, and build-to-forecast supply chain models across both discrete and batch-process manufacturing modes. It is particularly well suited for manufacturers operating in a mixed-mode environment.
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Get a quicker and more reliable overview of the manufacturing resources required to meet customer demand by performing rough capacity scheduling, taking both finite and infinite capacity and materials scheduling into consideration, and then scheduling production processes backward or forward from any date. |
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Deliver customized products faster and more cost effectively by reducing the manual work involved in designing, planning, and producing them. |
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Optimize your warehouse processes.
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Set high and low priority storage areas in your warehouses. |
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Divide your warehouses into zones based on temperature or rate of turnover. |
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Specify warehouse locations on five levels: Warehouse, aisle, rack, shelf, and bin. |
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Define each area based on parameters such as space and pallet type. |
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| Improve financial management to drive confident, smart decisions |
Microsoft Dynamics AX delivers a range of financial capabilities that can help you consolidate accounts with subsidiaries or distribution centers no matter where they are located. So you can make business decisions confidently. Microsoft Dynamics AX helps users focus on their jobs by giving them access to accounting, reporting, and detailed analysis at levels that are appropriate for their positions.
It includes applications for financial management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, human resource management, project management, and analytics.
Because it integrates with widely-familiar Microsoft products—such as Microsoft SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Exchange, Office, and Windows—employees can work with the tools they are likely to be already familiar with, lowering training costs.
The solution is supplied through a worldwide network of channel partners that provide specialized services and local support tailored to your unique needs.
| Microsoft Dynamics AX to meet your business needs: |
| Business Analysis |
A straightforward way to create, view, and understand multidimensional reports. A centrally managed system makes it easier for everyone in your organization to get the answers they need. |
| Financial Management |
Get fast, reliable, and comprehensive accounting, financial reporting, and analysis capabilities. Extend access to your business community, at the appropriate level, and improve the efficiency of your existing accounting processes. |
| Tools |
Allows developers to tailor almost every aspect of the solution with simple and easy to use tools. The MorphX development environment integrates several different functions, such as designing, editing, compiling, and debugging, within one common environment. |
| Logistics |
Streamline cooperation between purchasing, production, customer demand, inventory, and other key areas of your business, including warehouse management, finance, trade and production. |
| Trade |
Automate sales and purchasing, and streamline intercompany operations. Improve relationships with your customers and suppliers using trade agreements, manage intercompany orders within one system, and achieve better cost control with greater visibility into cost prices and accurate inventory valuation. |
| Warehouse Management |
Work more efficiently by managing your warehouse according to your individual needs. Help optimize your warehouse layout to increase efficiency and streamline your warehouse processes to reduce costs. |
E-commerce |
| Commerce Gateway |
Use Microsoft BizTalk Server to orchestrate business processes smoothly, both within and between organizations. Help meet the changing needs of any partner quickly, and form new partnerships easily. |
| Enterprise Portal |
Make your workflow smoother by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and other business partners to interact directly with your ERP system. Offer access to relevant business information directly and conduct business transactions through personalized, role-based Web portals. |
| Enterprise Portal Roles |
Make it easy for employees to transact with the system with little or no training. Employees around the globe can work comfortably with the applications and functionality they need to excel at their jobs, while customers and vendors can place orders, view item information, and make requests, all in their native language. |
| Enterprise Portal |
Make your workflow smoother by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and other business partners to interact directly with your ERP system. Offer access to relevant business information directly and conduct business transactions through personalized, role-based Web portals. |
| Enterprise Portal Roles |
Make it easy for employees to transact with the system with little or no training. Employees around the globe can work comfortably with the applications and functionality they need to excel at their jobs, while customers and vendors can place orders, view item information, and make requests, all in their native language. |
| Questionnaire |
Design online surveys, such as customer or employee satisfaction, in a matter of minutes, without any technical experience. Business managers, human resources personnel, and administrative personnel can quickly design and implement basic questionnaires. The Questionnaire module supports Web integration, so questionnaires can be deployed via a corporate intranet as well as public Web sites. |
Financial Management |
| Business Analysis |
A straightforward way to create, view, and understand multidimensional reports. A centrally managed system makes it easier for everyone in your organization to get the answers they need. |
| Financial Management |
Get fast, reliable, and comprehensive accounting, financial reporting, and analysis capabilities. Extend access to your business community, at the appropriate level, and improve the efficiency of your existing accounting processes. |
| Object Server |
Use this application server to minimize bandwidth requirements and offer cost-efficient and secure client deployment. It can execute business logic for thin clients and allow multiple connections and other types of clients to access the database, conduct load balancing, and much more. |
| Object Server |
Use this application server to minimize bandwidth requirements and offer cost-efficient and secure client deployment. It can execute business logic for thin clients and allow multiple connections and other types of clients to access the database, conduct load balancing, and much more. |
| Security System |
Use configuration and security keys to configure Microsoft Business Solutions–Axapta and control user access to different features. You can grant different rights to each company's accounts in the same database, as well as grant user access on a more specific and detailed level. |
| Tools |
Allows developers to tailor almost every aspect of the solution with simple and easy to use tools. The MorphX development environment integrates several different functions, such as designing, editing, compiling and debugging, within one common environment. |
| Balanced Scorecard |
Keep your business on the right track by turning strategic goals into tangible targets based on Key Performance Indicators. Quickly monitor progress towards your goals and react to performance trends. |
| Business Process Management |
Develop and manage business processes by identifying and monitoring actions that support your business strategy. Get detailed information on responsibilities, time, priorities, and status. |
| Enterprise Portal |
Make your workflow smoother by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and other business partners to interact directly with your ERP system. Offer access to relevant business information directly, and conduct business transactions through personalized, role-based Web portals. |
| Enterprise Portal Roles |
Make it easy for employees to transact with the system with little or no training. Employees around the globe can work comfortably with the applications and functionality they need to excel at their jobs, while customers and vendors can place orders, view item information, and make requests, all in their native language. |
| Human Resource Management I |
With your employee information stored in a structured, easily retrievable manner, you can concentrate on managing rather than simply documenting human resource issues. |
| Human Resource Management II |
Learn from the experiences of previous recruitment campaigns and pinpoint the most effective media and methods for sharper, more effective communications. Recruit more efficiently and monitor the performance and well-being of your organization. |
| Human Resource Management III |
Develop resources to meet your strategic goals. Identify skill gaps to determine required employee development, initiate, and follow up on development plans, and provide a uniform framework for people managers to reach employee development goals. |
| Questionnaire |
Design online surveys, such as customer or employee satisfaction, in a matter of minutes, without any technical experience. Business managers, human resources personnel and administrative personnel can quickly design and implement basic questionnaires. The Questionnaire module supports Web integration, so questionnaires can be deployed via a corporate intranet as well as public Web sites. |
| Master Planning |
Streamline your entire production process. The data provided by the Microsoft Axapta Trade, Logistics, Projects, Work Centers, and Production Series helps you minimize inventory-carrying costs and optimize product flow from suppliers, through production, to your customers. |
| Product Builder |
Streamline the process of ordering, planning and producing customized products. Enable your employees, as well as your customers, to configure complex products via a Microsoft Windows client, or over the Web. |
| Production |
Increase production efficiency with real-time insight into your manufacturing processes. Handle material flow, plan and execute routes, manage operations and rough capacity planning and jobs, and make detailed schedules including the use of Gantt charts. |
| Shop Floor Control |
Manage your personnel, material, and data processing more effectively. Collect and analyze production-related information such as work hours and production activities for improved cost control. |
| Enterprise Portal |
Make your workflow smoother by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and other business partners to interact directly with your ERP system. Offer access to relevant business information directly, and conduct business transactions through personalized, role-based Web portals. |
| Enterprise Portal Roles |
Make it easy for employees to transact with the system with little or no training. Employees around the globe can work comfortably with the applications and functionality they need to excel at their jobs, while customers and vendors can place orders, view item information, and make requests, all in their native language. |
| Project |
Gain financial control of both short-term and long-term projects. This complete and easy-to-use module helps you manage project accounting across your company and gives you full financial overview and control. |
| Enterprise Portal |
Make your workflow smoother by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and other business partners to interact directly with your ERP system. Offer access to relevant business information directly, and conduct business transactions through personalized, role-based Web portals. |
| Enterprise Portal Roles |
Make it easy for employees to transact with the system with little or no training. Employees around the globe can work comfortably with the applications and functionality they need to excel at their jobs, while customers and vendors can place orders, view item information, and make requests, all in their native language. |
| Marketing Automation |
Make campaign planning, execution, and analysis easier by placing all relevant marketing information at your fingertips. Campaigns can be based on back office and front office information and are easily organized, executed, tracked, and analyzed. |
| Product Builder |
Streamline the process of ordering, planning, and producing customized products. Enable your employees, as well as your customers, to configure complex products via a Microsoft Windows client, or over the Web. |
| Questionnaire |
Design online surveys, such as customer or employee satisfaction, in a matter of minutes, without any technical experience. Business managers, human resources personnel, and administrative personnel can quickly design and implement basic questionnaires. The Questionnaire module supports web integration, so questionnaires can be deployed via a corporate intranet as well as public Web sites. |
| Sales and Marketing |
Gather all your business information in one place, and keep it structured and readily available. Identify your customers' needs and make optimal sales and marketing decisions. Share information on all aspects of your business relationships, making every employee a customer expert. |
| Sales Force Automation |
Provide your sales and marketing personnel with the tools they need to track any type of activity targeted at customers, prospects, suppliers, or other business contacts. Not only can you log information for general sales support and for automated marketing purposes, but you can also give all your employees access to updated information in Microsoft Axapta. |
| Sales Management |
Help sales and marketing managers work more efficiently with their teams. Use it to manage and monitor individuals, teams, and the entire organization, and to display sales data graphically. |
| Telemarketing |
Execute and manage telephone sales and marketing functions from one place. Use Telemarketing for a variety of activities, including sales-lead generation, customer surveys, direct marketing campaigns, and customer support. |
| Commerce Gateway |
Use BizTalk Server to orchestrate business processes smoothly, both within and between organizations. Meet the changing needs of any partner quickly and form new partnerships easily. |
| Enterprise Portal |
Make your workflow smoother by allowing employees, customers, vendors, and other business partners to interact directly with your ERP system. Offer access to relevant business information directly, and conduct business transactions through personalized, role-based Web portals. |
| Enterprise Portal Roles |
Make it easy for employees to transact with the system with little or no training. Employees around the globe can work comfortably with the applications and functionality they need to excel at their jobs, while customers and vendors can place orders, view item information, and make requests, all in their native language. |
| Logistics |
Streamline cooperation among purchasing, production, customer demand, inventory, and other key areas of your business, including warehouse management, finance, trade, and production. |
| Master Planning |
Streamline your entire production process. Use data provided by the Microsoft Axapta Trade, Logistics, Projects, Work Centers, and Production Series to help you minimize inventory-carrying costs and optimize product flow from suppliers, through production, to your customers. |
| Product Builder |
Streamline the process of ordering, planning and producing customized products. Enable your employees, as well as your customers, to configure complex products via a Microsoft Windows client, or over the Web. |
| Production |
Increase production efficiency with real-time insight into your manufacturing processes. Handle material flow, plan and execute routes, manage operations and rough capacity planning and jobs, and make detailed schedules including the use of Gantt charts. |
| Trade |
Automate sales and purchasing and streamline intercompany operations. Improve relationships with your customers and suppliers using trade agreements, manage intercompany orders within one system, and achieve better cost control with greater visibility into cost prices and accurate inventory valuation. |
| Warehouse Management |
Work more efficiently by managing your warehouse according to your individual needs. Optimize your warehouse layout to increase efficiency and streamline your warehouse processes to reduce costs. |
For further information, please contact us at (852) 2581 9373 or email to salesenquiry@polyasia.com.
For the product details, please refer to the official web page of Microsoft® Dynamics at http://www.microsoft.com/businesssolutions/axapta/default.mspx
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