The economic news is encouraging.  Earlier today the Office for National Statistics revised its original growth estimates upward from 1.1% to 1.2% for the second quarter of 2010 as confidence returns to many sectors, particularly manufacturing and construction.

As the recovery gathers pace now isn’t the time to take our collective eyes off the road, companies must remain focused on our corporate objectives and business growth goals.  Leveraging visibility of key performance metrics or indicators (KPI’s) has until now been the preserve of specialist, bespoke and rather expensive business dashboard applications.  Microsoft Dynamics AX and the Microsoft Partner Ecosystem are changing that with Microsoft Dynamics AX role centres.

As a key component of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the role based home page is the landing page for users of the system, both internally with the rich client and externally using the Enterprise Portal web browser solution.  What makes the role based home page particularly interesting is its ability to clearly and efficiently display current operational performance, correlating this alongside the original business KPI’s.  This can be displayed graphically in the format of histograms and pie charts or numerically with the ability to drill down into the detail within. 

A number of other tools within the role based home page look to increase personal productivity and a pro-active approach to tasks through the use of Cue’s, workflow business alerts.

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