Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

by Murray Fife

This is a brilliantly accessible book, packed with practical examples, that's perfect for business professionals who want to make more of the advanced features of Dynamics AX to save money and increase management efficiency. Overview In Detail Dynamics AX is built on a number of foundation products from Microsoft that are used to make it bigger, better, and stronger than the average business system. Taking advantage of these products will make your life easier. Use these tools to maximize the efficiency of your business management, taking advantage of a powerful and centralized tool set. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to use tools that you already have to extend out Dynamics AX and discover potential new directions. You will be surprised at what you can do on a shoestring budget. The book will allow you to streamline your work processes, and use the system's powerful and centralised features to the advantage of your organization. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to maximize the potential of Dynamics AX with common and popular tools to enhance your business management systems. We will begin by exploring how to extend Dynamics AX out with SharePoint. After this, the book will guide you through important elements in maximizing business management efficiency, focusing on key aspects like reports, dashboards, and workflows. The book will then finish by teaching you how to customize your management systems, achieving a comprehensive coverage of the most important extension processes relevant to you and your business with very little programming. This is a book for those of you that want to make the most out of Dynamics AX by using what you already have, and without breaking the bank. What you will learn from this book Approach Follow valuable and practical recipes touring the fundamental features of Dynamics AX extension. Who this book is written for This title is for business professionals, such as administrators and consultants, who want to take full advantage of the features of Dynamics AX. This book has a wide appeal and you do not need to be a SharePoint, database or programming expert. As long as you know a little about these elements, you will be able to take full advantage of the business efficiency created with Dynamics AX extensions.

314 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Murray Fife is a Technical Solution Professional at Microsoft and Author of over 25 books on Microsoft Dynamics AX including the Bare Bones Configuration Guide Series which contains over 15 books that show novice users host to set up Dynamics AX using visual walkthroughs. These guides start off with the Financial modules of Dynamics AX and then progress through the Operational, Distribution, and then the more specialized modules like production, service management, and project accounting. You can find all of his books on Amazon (www.amazon.com/author/murrayfife) and also even more on the independent BSP (www.blindsquirrelpublishing.com) site.

Murray is also the curator of the Dynamics AX Companions (www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) site which he built from the ground up as a resource for all of the Dynamics AX community where you can find walkthroughs and blueprints that he created since first being introduced to the Dynamics AX product.

Throughout his 25+ years of experience in the software industry he has worked in many different roles during his career, including as a developer, an implementation consultant, a trainer and a demo guy within the partner channel which gives him a great understanding of the requirements for both customers and partners perspective.

Reviews

[Jamie Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook is a great book of recipes that will aid you in creation of forms, web services etc. The directions(recipes) are easy to follow and extremely beneficial.

The recipes include great "help" or reminders and tips that can really go a long way in ensuring that your creations are at their best. This books is clearly written with great contributors and a great author that understand Microsoft Dynamics and gives real world scenarios.

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[Alexis Castro · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is a must add to any Functional consultant’s and/or Client based IT department library. Every chapter is an easy to follow how-to that easily explains each covered area. After having this book for less than three weeks, I was able to show the client how to add role centers to their respective outlook accounts. I am going to recommend that the client use this book to handle adding their process flows into the help menu.

The book is well written and is very easy to read. A novice would be able to follow the sections in each chapter which uses the Contoso demo company. The book was able to get detailed enough while straddling the line to not get so technical that only a developer would understand it.

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[José Estevan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pesar del título, es importante comentar desde el principio que este NO es un libro sobre programación. Yo pondría como potenciales lectores de esta obra a consultores de integración, preventa y consultores técnicos que quieran conocer las diversas tecnologías que permiten integrar Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 con sistemas externos como Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, WorkFlow Foundation o cualquier aplicación mediante Servicios Web (ya comenté un libro especializado en este tema concreto).

El subtitulo elegido por Packt en la portada es un estupendo resumen del contenido en general del libro. Es una guía eminentemente práctica sobre las maneras de ampliar la funcionalidad de Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 integrándolo con sistemas externos utilizando tecnologías de Microsoft, entre las que se incluyen:

* Integración con Sharepoint, por ejemplo para tareas de gestión documental, enlace de funcionalidades como Sharepoint My Sites con los Role Pages de Dynamics AX, etc.
* Integración con WorkFlow Foundation.
* Integración con Microsoft Office Word y Excel para la creación de informes desde plantillas, y con Outlook para sincronizar contactos y tareas.
* Integración con las herramientas de Business Intelligence para la creación de reports y scorecards mediante PerformancePoint.
* Integración con herramientas de comunicaciones como Microsoft Lync.
* Integración con la seguridad de Windows Server mediante Active Directory para el acceso a determinadas carpetas.
* Integración con sistemas externos mediante web services.

Una lectura rápida y agradable para conocer integraciones desconocidas para la amplia mayoría de la comunidad y que añaden un potencial enorme a la funcionalidad estándar del producto sin requerir apenas modificaciones desde el estándar. Sólo en un par de capítulos se incluye código X++, el resto puede hacerse sólo con parametrizaciones.

[Mohamed Aamer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook provides a wide deep range of non-functional requirements which gives a flavor to Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation. I recommend this book for Microsoft Dynamics AX Solution Architect, Application Consultant, Business Analyst, and IT Manager. This book gives them the overall overview with the required level of details to implement, and deploy important non-function requirements of which build on Microsoft technologies Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office Outlook.

It provides a walkthrough of utilizing Microsoft Office Excel Power View, and PowerPivot and how it integrate with Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics AX. In addition to the executive supporting tools of Dashboard, Charts, and Scorecards platform.

Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook illustrate how to use Microsoft Dynamics AX as a communication channel between the organization and its customers, how to utilize the push strategy reports through the personalized role center to give the right information to the right person at the right time. I enjoyed the book content very much.

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[Deepak Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

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