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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012
234 pages, Paperback
First published March 21, 2013
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August 1, 2013
This book was divided into 13 chapters
Chapter 1, Installing and Setting up Sure Step, examines the installation of Sure Step and the setup of projects, and discusses the project offerings that are available within Sure Step.
Chapter 2, The Diagnostic, introduces you to the Diagnostic phase of a Sure Step implementation project, where we identify the overlap with the sales process, understand and choose Decision Accelerators and initiate project management and governance.
Chapter 3, Planning the Infrastructure to Support Dynamics AX, will help you to discover when and how you should start planning your infrastructure, how to choose the best technologies and roles for your project, and how to get the most out of your project team.
Chapter 4, Installing the Dynamics AX Environments, will help you in understanding the key factors that influence how and when you get started in installing your Dynamics AX environments, which can have a major influence on the overall success of your project. Here we offer tips and advice on how to manage this stage effectively.
Chapter 5, Business Requirements Analysis, will introduce you to the key objectives of the Analysis phase, including help in ensuring that the detailed business requirements have been properly scoped and understood and all contractual documentation is in place. This chapter will guide you through these important steps with helpful hints and examples.
Chapter 6, AX Setup, will help you to find out the basic setup required to make AX useable, and gain insights into the system configuration. This chapter will help you make the right decisions when it comes to setting up AX correctly.
Chapter 7, Integration, will discuss the importance of creating an integration plan for third party software systems, and help you plan and test effectively.
Chapter 8, Harnessing the Power of Standard AX Features, will help you to discover the wealth of highly configurable standard features available to you in AX that allow you to tailor the applications without modification or customization, and find out how to get the best out of AX without development.
Chapter 9, Designing and Developing the Solution, will help you get creative with the design of the AX solution, understand the impact of making changes to AX and know when to develop and when not to. This chapter will guide you through the solution design and assist you with the planning of the development.
Chapter 10, Reports, Document Layouts, and Business Intelligence, will help you learn the differences between Reports, Document Layouts, and Business Intelligence, and discover how to analyze and plan for their implementation.
Chapter 11, Deployment Phase, will increase your confidence in your deployment, after having analyzed, designed, and developed your AX solution. This chapter provides information on End User Training, User Acceptance Testing, Data Migration, and the Cutover to the new system.
Chapter 12, Project Governance and Quality Assurance, will help you with the extensive Project Governance and Quality Assurance that is becoming more and more necessary for larger projects. This chapter will also help you discover more about conducting project lifecycle reviews, auditing, and creating quality review plans.
Chapter 13, Operation Phase, will guide you, following months of planning and design, through the final stages of the project and the most exciting stage—handing the completed system over to a happy customer and transitioning the solution to support. This chapter will also help you learn about the important planning that goes into this stage, and how to have a successful go-live!
I really like some of the later chapters 8-13
Overall a really good book to read for those that work with implementation of Dynamics AX.
Chapter 1, Installing and Setting up Sure Step, examines the installation of Sure Step and the setup of projects, and discusses the project offerings that are available within Sure Step.
Chapter 2, The Diagnostic, introduces you to the Diagnostic phase of a Sure Step implementation project, where we identify the overlap with the sales process, understand and choose Decision Accelerators and initiate project management and governance.
Chapter 3, Planning the Infrastructure to Support Dynamics AX, will help you to discover when and how you should start planning your infrastructure, how to choose the best technologies and roles for your project, and how to get the most out of your project team.
Chapter 4, Installing the Dynamics AX Environments, will help you in understanding the key factors that influence how and when you get started in installing your Dynamics AX environments, which can have a major influence on the overall success of your project. Here we offer tips and advice on how to manage this stage effectively.
Chapter 5, Business Requirements Analysis, will introduce you to the key objectives of the Analysis phase, including help in ensuring that the detailed business requirements have been properly scoped and understood and all contractual documentation is in place. This chapter will guide you through these important steps with helpful hints and examples.
Chapter 6, AX Setup, will help you to find out the basic setup required to make AX useable, and gain insights into the system configuration. This chapter will help you make the right decisions when it comes to setting up AX correctly.
Chapter 7, Integration, will discuss the importance of creating an integration plan for third party software systems, and help you plan and test effectively.
Chapter 8, Harnessing the Power of Standard AX Features, will help you to discover the wealth of highly configurable standard features available to you in AX that allow you to tailor the applications without modification or customization, and find out how to get the best out of AX without development.
Chapter 9, Designing and Developing the Solution, will help you get creative with the design of the AX solution, understand the impact of making changes to AX and know when to develop and when not to. This chapter will guide you through the solution design and assist you with the planning of the development.
Chapter 10, Reports, Document Layouts, and Business Intelligence, will help you learn the differences between Reports, Document Layouts, and Business Intelligence, and discover how to analyze and plan for their implementation.
Chapter 11, Deployment Phase, will increase your confidence in your deployment, after having analyzed, designed, and developed your AX solution. This chapter provides information on End User Training, User Acceptance Testing, Data Migration, and the Cutover to the new system.
Chapter 12, Project Governance and Quality Assurance, will help you with the extensive Project Governance and Quality Assurance that is becoming more and more necessary for larger projects. This chapter will also help you discover more about conducting project lifecycle reviews, auditing, and creating quality review plans.
Chapter 13, Operation Phase, will guide you, following months of planning and design, through the final stages of the project and the most exciting stage—handing the completed system over to a happy customer and transitioning the solution to support. This chapter will also help you learn about the important planning that goes into this stage, and how to have a successful go-live!
I really like some of the later chapters 8-13
Overall a really good book to read for those that work with implementation of Dynamics AX.
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