[1140915] Yogesh Kasat, JJ Yadav Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide (2015)
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Preparing for a Great Start
- Chapter 2: Getting into the Details Early
- Chapter 3: Infrastructure Planning
and Design
- The Dynamics AX components and architecture
- Planning the system topology
- Cloud deployment
- Industry best practices and recommendations
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Integration Planning
and Design
- Integration planning
- Integration technologies
- Integration design and development
- Best practices and recommendations
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Data Migration – Scoping through Delivery
- Managing scope – simplifying data migration through rightsizing the scope
- The design and development phase
- Data mapping and transformation
- Planning the data migration
- Selecting the tools for data migration
- The Data Import/Export Framework
- Data migration execution tips
- Initial templates for business
- Extracting source data into SQL tables
- Never rename/repurpose fields
- Considering premigration steps
- Considering postmigration steps
- Changing SQL to simple recovery mode
- Multithreading and max DOP
- Index and statistics maintenance
- Disabling the AX logging
- Considering SQL updates on migrated data
- The SQL import – through caution and expertise
- Managing configurations
- Configuration management simplified with DIXF
- Reviewing and deciding on the configuration
- Data validation
- A classic example of a data migration issue in projects
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Reporting and BI
- Gathering BI and reporting requirements
- Knowing about reporting tools
- Mapping reports and identifying gaps
- The custom report development
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Functional and Technical Design
- Chapter 8: Configuration Management
- Configuration planning
- Collecting the configuration data
- Configuration tools
- Configuration data management
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Building Customizations
- Chapter 10: Performance Tuning
- Chapter 11: Testing and Training
- Chapter 12: Go-live Planning
- Chapter 13: Post Go-live
- Initial stabilization
- Proactive preparation – what's coming
- Post-implementation review
- Why post-implementation review?
- Key factors to get the most out of PIR
- Preparing for PIR
- Pain points from experience
- Post-implementation review – an AX 2012 customer
- Current state – key challenges
- The unused potential of Dynamics AX
- Improvement opportunities – processes and systems
- New features from the next release
- Summary
- Chapter 14: Upgrade
- Index