Douglas Daley, Solution SpecialistAngelo Jebamony, Solution Specialist

Dynamics AX

Roadmap and update

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Technology trendsMobile

By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers

65% of companies are deploying at least one social software tool

Social

The world’s mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion—more than

37% of the total workforce—by 2015

Cloud

Digital content grew to 2.7ZB in 2012,

up 48% from 2011, rocketing toward 8ZB by 2015

More than 80% of new apps will be distributed or deployed on clouds in 2012

Big Data

Millennials will make up

75% of the American workforce by 2025

70% of businesses are either using or investigating cloud computing solutions

80% growth of unstructured data is predicted over the next five years

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Pace of change1.6

trillion

7 million

2

R&D Spend (as a % of GDP)

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RainierAX ‘7’

New HTML5 UI

Looks like LCS

Functionality ~ R3: R3 brought forward the functional leap

Architecture update for cloud, browser based UI and

development in Visual Studio

Timeline… we think deployments will start in 12-18

months

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The AX R&D Feedback Communityhttps://microsoft.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8q8jSPfPyr1fDi5

For current AX Customers, ISVs, Partners, and End Users

and Consultants with specific areas of expertise

Join areas of interest such as a functional domain, industry

focus or technical focus

Apply to participate in upcoming private betas (such as

the new CU8 release)

Share with the community through Connect and Yammer

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Lifecycle Serviceshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/lcs/

Cloud

Monthly releases

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Project SiennaAccess .Next

Rapid business user prototyping of connected apps

How can we get AX data into Sienna? Excel via PowerBI or oData

Rest API atop SQL Server

Retail

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Trending in AX for RetailDynamicretail

Engaged employees

Make people your advantage

Embrace a new workforce

Leverage social, mobile, and cloud

“Omnichannel shoppers spend up to 50% more than single channel shoppers.”

—IDC Retail Insights

Devices that sell Counter showrooming Drive a better consumer

experience Increase conversion

Employees with devices 50% more productive

-2013 Forrester TEI Study

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Trending in AX for Retail

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Trending in AX for Retail

Loyalty rewrite – a global loyalty program

Global gift cards

Pricing and promotional flexibility

Call centre channel

Enterprise deployment and monitoring

Call Centre

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Trending in Customer ServiceNew retail channel

Call Scripts

Keyword search

Margin Analysis

Order Hold

Cross Sell /

Upsell Continuity orders

Purge Sales

History

Customer Cases

Customer Service

Item Lists

Direct Delivery

Pricing control

Enhanced

payments

Instalment

payments

Order events

Detailed order status

Advanced Notes

Letter Template

s

Customer

Statistics

& More…..

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Customer classificationRecency, frequency, monetary (RFM) score

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What you have just seen…Call Centre module

Retail channel – use retail catalogues and retail pricing

Keyword search

Sales order payments

Up-Sell and Cross-Sell functionality

Order holds

Margin analysis

Scripts for guided selling

Warehouse Management

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Trending in: Warehouse managementThe value proposition

ERP

TMSWMS

ERP

TMSWMS

Fully embedded solution – Real time – Visibility – One Source of the Truth

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Reservation Hierarchy

•Site

•Warehouse

•Batch

•Location

•Licence Plate

Sales Order Reservation [Soft Reservation]

Wave release to warehouse [Hard Reservation]

Soft vs Hard Reservations

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Trending in: Warehouse management

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Trending in: Warehouse managementAdvanced Warehouse Management Replaces the WMS II module

Enhanced reservation hierarchy

Advanced picking strategies including cluster picking

Advanced put away strategies

Cross docking

Licence plates and Inventory status added to inventory

dimensions

Native Radio Frequency (RF) for hand-held scanners

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Trending in implementationsRapid time to value and transparency

From workloads to incremental implementation models

Accelerated process frameworks inSure Accelerators

Lifecycle Services BPM

Learning from agile Daily meetings with a simple focus

Cyclic reviews answering 3 simple questions: Start, continue, stop

Lighter documentation styles: cards verse FDDs

Service Industries

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Trending in AX for Service IndustriesCU6, CU7 and R3

Make it easier to create and estimate projects

Make it easier to resource projects

Make it easier to track progress and manage budgets and

forecasts

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What we sawImproved estimation, resource management and tracking

New hierarchical WBS

Automatic scheduling

Task dependency mapping

Automatic estimate creation

A single screen for

estimating tasks and

expenses

Flexible resource search

Visual availability

Soft and hard booking at project

or assignment level

Analyse budgeted and

forecasted costs and effort from

a single form

Perform earned value reporting

Email: douglas.daley@intergen.com.auangelo.jebamony@intergen.co.nz

Twitter: @TeamIntergen

Thank you

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