Microsoft Dynamics AX

• Free people to focus on business—rather than on learning new applications—with a solution that looks and feels like a familiar Microsoft user experience.

• Work effectively with an intuitive, RoleTailored user interface and Role Centers that help employees organize, prioritize, and access tasks and information from within a single window.

• Expand the reach of decision-making with ad-hoc, self-service business intelligence and reporting tools that help people analyze data through dashboard KPIs, Microsoft Office Excel, Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

• Enable people to work smoothly with Microsoft Dynamics AX data without leaving their Microsoft Office applications.

• Build strong connections with employees, customers, and partners using integrated, unified communication and collaboration tools.
   

Transform change into opportunity

To keep pace with the competition, companies still need to extend into new territories, launch new products and services, and increase business strengths through mergers and acquisitions. With Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can successfully manage growth and change by building profitable supply chain relationships and quickly adapting internal processes to meet changing demands.

• Grow with confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX offers a service-oriented architecture, tight integration with Microsoft technologies, and Web services that enable you to easily add users, support new business models, and scale your solution to support even large, distributed enterprises.
• Smoothly automate supply chain collaboration and document exchange with partners of all sizes using Microsoft BizTalk Server and the Microsoft Office system.
• Build and quickly modify ad-hoc work streams to take advantage of new opportunities and adapt quickly to changing industry and customer demands.
• Adapt your solution to the way your business works, not the other way around.
• With flexible business licensing options, you can choose the solution package you need today, and then add capabilities as your business grows—quickly and cost-effectively.
• Capitalise on your current investments in Microsoft services and technology to help ensure rapid time to benefit.
   

Be a world-class contender

Today, business opportunity can mean enlarging your customer base to include a worldwide audience or expanding across borders into new sites or branch offices. Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to manage the complexities of a global organisation by consolidating and standardising processes and providing visibility across your organisation.

• Expand easily across international borders with country- and region-specific functionality, including capabilities for multiple languages and currencies and compliance with local financial requirements for more than 36 countries/regions.
• Consolidate financial, operational, and customer data while preserving local information to build your strategic edge and personalised customer, partner, and supplier relationships.
• Unify standards and help ensure quality by centralising processes, sharing best practices, and extending supply chain management across multiple sites and divisions.
• Manage and monitor global and local performance with sophisticated yet straightforward reporting and analysis tools. Combine your solution with Microsoft Business Intelligence applications to enhance the analytic capabilities critical to managing a complex business environment.
• Give people access to real-time KPIs, scorecards, and data through Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX. And with PerformancePoint Server or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, key decision-makers can work with critical information without logging in to Microsoft Dynamics AX.
• Help ensure efficient, consistent deployments with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a standardised, global methodology and suite of tools that simplifies implementation and upgrade processes.

Simplify Compliance

Companies face myriad regulatory requirements that vary widely across regions and countries. Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you reduce risk and liability associated with corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and customer initiatives.

• Save time and effort with workflows that enforce and enhance controls based on specific risk and compliance scenarios.
• Help ensure consistency with standardised, repeatable processes that can reliably aggregate compliance data.
• Turn challenge into opportunity by supporting customer initiatives—including "green",PCI and RFID supply chain strategies—with capabilities that reduce waste and promote environmental sustainability.
• Centralise and share corporate governance and compliance activities with the Compliance Centre, a built-in tool for managing policies, process documents, and reports.
• Keep a tight grip on compliance activities with business intelligence tools that monitor internal changes, so you can respond quickly to requests for specific information.
• Reduce the cost and uncertainty of protecting corporate compliance data. Take advantage of the powerful security features built into Microsoft Dynamics AX and other Microsoft products in your corporate IT infrastructure.

Next Steps

To find out how Microsoft Dynamics AX can meet your specific needs, contact Maginus on + 44 (0) 161 946 0000 or request a call back.