Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is a truly global solution, designed to scale with your business

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is a truly global solution, designed to scale with your business. Simple enough to deploy for a single business unit in a single country, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will support the unique requirements for business systems in 36 countries—all from a single-instance deployment of the software. Multiple currencies, multiple time zones, multiple languages, and compliance with multiple banking and reporting standards and legislative codes give you the global coverage that you require. And a layered architecture and installable language packs provide the flexibility for future growth to other markets, including options for agile, partner-led localization.

Business software is powerful if it empowers users—increasing their productivity and providing strong insights that help them make better decisions. This is the heart of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, centered on the latest generation of its Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored user experience.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides a role-tailored user home page with configurable dashboards

• The base of the RoleTailored user experience is familiarity—users comfortable with the Windows® operating system and Microsoft® Office are immediately at home in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. The Microsoft Outlook® messaging and collaboration client–styled navigation is enhanced with navigation concepts from Windows 7, the contextual access to relevant functionality from the FluentTM user interface pioneered in Microsoft Office 2010, and the use of Search metaphors to find information throughout Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
• The familiar experience extends even further to drive productivity—for analysts working with data from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, interoperability with Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet software and PowerPivot brings that data into those tools that analysts expect, with a native, natural experience enabling rapid, effective access to business system data.
• Workflow automation, built on the .NET Workflow Foundation, brings user tasks to a central task pane, including tasks assigned to an individual, their role, or a specific functional queue. Tasks and input queues of documents are combined in the RoleTailored user experience of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to help users quickly prioritize the work they should be doing. The system is not just there to record transactions when users finish their work; it is helping them follow consistent processes and focus on their most important tasks.
• The value of a business system is not about putting transactions in; instead it is about turning those transactions into information—into business intelligence (BI)—to help users make faster, better decisions. To do this, business intelligence must be an embedded part of the application, not a separate tool that requires users to take extra steps and switch contexts. Rich, embedded BI is at the core of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with:
  • More than 30 Role Centers shipped out of the box, to provide the right BI for each user’s job role
  • 11 SQL Analytics Server Cubes behind those Role Centers
  • Key performance indicators tailored to each process and role based on those cubes
  • Over 800 out-of-the-box reports, all delivered through SQL® Server Reporting Services
  • Rich interoperability with Microsoft Excel to surface report output and enable analysis
  • Standards-based data interoperability with PowerPivot for ad hoc slicing and dicing
  • InfoParts providing in-context BI fully embedded throughout the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 user experience

And of course these are all developed using tools that enable extensibility to rapidly add the unique requirements of ISV vertical solutions and individual business customers.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 further innovates to capture business intelligence about workflow and process together with transactional information to enable rich analytics about process effectiveness, with a focus on empowering business process optimization. Strong administrative ERP functionality, combined with industry-operational functionality, a scalable global system, and a familiar, empowering user experience with embedded BI to keep information in context, define Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 as a truly powerful business application.