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Microsoft Dynamics AX License Changes
Oct 8th
Microsoft has introduced three lighter access license rights to help you more affordably extend your Microsoft Dynamics AX solution to more people within your organization
For Hosted Dynamics AX systems the following is now available
Microsoft Dynamics Light User
This is a rebranding of the previously available Dynamics Client for Office license (DCO)
This provides affordable access to Microsoft Dynamics AX through the Enterprise Portal, Microsoft Office, or other means. Users can easily participate in relevant business processes, such as creating and approving transactions or master records for sales orders, purchase orders, and vendors or perform occasional self-service tasks like managing expenses.
Microsoft Dynamics Employees Self Service User
This provides low pricing for users accessing their Microsoft Dynamics AX solution for any of the following self-service scenarios (not involving project / job codes): Employee Administration; Time & Attendance; Travel & Expense; Requisitions
For on premise solutions a third license is available now
Microsoft Dynamics Limited Device CAL.
This provides convenient licensing for scenarios accessing the Microsoft Dynamics solution through a single purpose device (e.g. Bar Code Data Capture, Time Clock)
These access rights provide customers an interface choice when accessing the Microsoft Dynamics AX solution by means other than the traditional Windows Full Client, whether deploying a web-based experience or taking full advantage of the great interoperability with Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint or any other third party applications.
These licenses allow users through multiple client technologies to perform employee self-service processes, operational tasks through multiple devices, and reporting designed for people who are not full ERP users, meaning that people can work more productively with a familiar experience.
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Dynamics AX Role Centres in a challenging business environment
Aug 27th
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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Microsoft changes the ERP market – Again!
Aug 20th
Microsoft is doing it again – ERP solution buying has just got a lot simpler
As of this September, a single pay-as-you-go monthly price will give a user access to all the features of Microsoft Dynamics AX that most users would ever need.
All of this software can be had for probably less than the price of your previous systems annual maintenance.
A” lite” version is available that is so cheap every PC user throughout a business should use it to get connected.
Full details should be available in September – but this market changing approach to delivering software just cannot be ignored.
If there was ever a good time to embrace change, now is it and it won’t cost you the earth
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Death of the IT Manager?
Aug 9th
Long gone are the days when a select few held the keys to the computer room door, through which only the chosen could enter and receive the blessings of prescribed knowledge on reams of green and white listing paper– or are they?
Many businesses are still in the thrall of IT managers who maintain a mystic about what they do and manage to keep a team of “experts” around them to deliver less than spectacular results.
Keeping up with today’s technology, let alone tomorrows, is all but impossible for an individual.
Instead, partnerships can be built with service providers who can deliver those elements of IT more consistently and cheaply than the traditional in house approach.
IT and system management should be sub-contracted in the same way office cleaning is. There are just too many more important things to be doing.
Businesses should instead be employing Information Managers (IM’s) who have responsibility to deliver real time information in a form that time hungry decision makers can easily digest.
This is a long way from just making sure the backup works and the printers do not jam.
Secure, reliable, flexible and cost effective solutions are now available for all areas of a business, and all you need is an Internet connection.
Broadband and Data Centres are changing the face of IT delivery across the world. Those companies which do not face up to these changes risk becoming irrelevant in the market places of tomorrow.
Move on from worrying about IT to delivering on IM. A great Information Manager is a hugely valuable asset to a business and the difference that he or she can make to the bottom line should always be appreciated.
The IT Manager is dead, long live the Information Manager!
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Ardent Solutions has partnered with Adaptable Solutions to offer Sales Forecasting for Microsoft Dynamics AX
Jul 12th
Modern logistics management requires ever more accurate inventory planning and it is for this reason that Ardent Solutions has partnered with Adaptable Solutions in order to offer its clients the Sales Forecasting add-on for Microsoft AX.
Ardent Solutions Ltd is the first Dynamics AX Partner in the UK to be appointed as a partner for Sales Forecasting. “We have been in discussion with Roger Fleury from Ardent Solutions since February and are very pleased to have formed a relationship with such a major Dynamics AX Partner in the UK”, says Duncan Cox, Managing Director of Adaptable Solutions. “We will be taking particular care to support them as they take on the module and we look forward to a successful partnership with them”.
Sales Forecasting for Microsoft Dynamics AX is a fully integrated module which enables users to generate sales forecasts quickly and easily without the complexity of interfacing to non-AX forecasting products. They get powerful Sales Forecasting functionality while enjoying all the benefits of a module developed specifically for AX. Sales Forecasting calculates forecasts of future sales demand from sales invoice data, providing a powerful tool that enables companies to intelligently plan ahead. Forecasts are generated using statistical formulae and are graphically presented for comparison with sales history. Sales history can be manually adjusted to remove abnormal demand and forecasts can be adjusted to reflect promotions and other known influences, both without losing the original figures.
“Payback on this quickly configured module should be pleasantly swift in any company that needs to bridge the gap between variable customer demands and the needs of managing suppliers and general stock replenishment. Sales Forecasting ensures consistent rules are applied to the art of Sales Forecasting, while retaining the ability to include an individual’s business experience and expertise. Critical stock holding decisions can then be immediately actioned throughout the business using the integrated approach of Dynamics AX.” Roger Fleury, Ardent Solutions
Adaptable Solutions Limited is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand and is experienced in Microsoft Dynamics™ AX, the most modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution available in the market today. Adaptable Solutions provide ‘add-on’ software modules for Microsoft Dynamics AX, such as Sales Forecasting, that are specifically designed to enable customers to streamline their supply chain through better planning, scheduling and reporting.
