Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Preview

Microsoft is committed to continually deliver powerful, agile, easy-to-use solutions that add value across your organization, today and tomorrow. The coming release of Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 is a delivery on this commitment. With more than 1,000 new features and enhancements across core enterprise resource planning (ERP) and industry capabilities, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will help provide more business value faster, enable agility and insight in your organization, and help drive faster adoption, broader usage, and easier maintenance and upgrade through a continued emphasis
on simplicity.

Couple this with a constant focus on pervasive interoperability—the natural interaction of ERP systems with Microsoft® business productivity applications and IT infrastructure technology—and the coming release will help sharpen your competitive edge and empower your people to anticipate and embrace change.

Consolidate role-specific information, workflow, reports, task lists, links and KPIs on a single easily-customized Role Center to enable fast, convenient review and action, whether you’re using the Windows client or a web browser.

RoleTailored User Interface

The enhanced RoleTailored user interface spans the the Microsoft Dynamics AX Windows client and Enterprise Portal and helps to drive productivity and business insight through its familiar user experience and connection with business processes. Microsoft Word and Excel®, familiar and powerful tools that workers already know and use, work bidirectionally with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to enhance worker productivity, and a more flexible Help system provides added support when needed.

Built-in Industry Capabilities

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is purpose-built for organizations in manufacturing, Public Sector1, services, and distribution (with retail coming soon), delivering industry-specific capabilities out-of-the-box. New in this release is support for public sector organizations. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 uniquely combines industry-specific capabilities in one solution and makes them available to all customers, benefiting organizations that require capabilities for more than one industry.

Microsoft Unveils Vision for Cloud ERP

Building on the success of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, microsot revealed a path for its ERP customers to move to the cloud with the next major releases of Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions, which will run on the Windows Azure platform. Customers will be able to move to the cloud on their own terms. The Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions will bring the same benefits in the cloud as they do on-premises.

Understanding that to deliver the benefits of the cloud to customers requires more than just technology, the company reiterated its commitment to help partners benefit from Microsoft Dynamics cloud offerings and released a Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Partner Profitability Guide. This guide provides key success factors and an execution road map, to help partners optimize their business processes and identify new opportunities.

“We see the cloud as a turning point in the market that provides the opportunity to create a new business model geared toward increasing the profitability and agility of our company,” said David Goad, managing director, eSavvy Pty Ltd. “The Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Partner Profitability Guide really helped us to solidify that opinion. It offers clear guidance on how to benefit from this shift and serves as a great starting point for all partners looking to build a strong, cloud-based business.”

In addition to resources such as the profitability guide, independent software vendors (ISVs) and partners will also be able to showcase Microsoft Dynamics cloud-enabled vertical solutions, add-ons and services on the Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace. This makes it simple for customers to try and buy solutions that fit their specific business needs and gives partners an opportunity to reach a broader audience and grow their business.