Fee Nolan's Microsoft Dynamics AX

Standard Benchmark on HP Proliant Servers for Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0

2006-09-25T15:08:05Z

In August 2006, Microsoft Corporation conducted the Microsoft Dynamics AX™ 4.0 Standard distribution benchmark to measure the performance and scalability characteristics of Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 in a simulated distribution scenario. This benchmark exercised core Accounts Receivables scenarios around order entry through invoicing, in addition to Procure to Pay processes around purchase order creation through receiving of goods.

Details can be found below using the following link on PartnerSource

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/documentation/benchmarks/MSDYAX40_stdbenchmrk_HPproliantservers

Posted By Fee Nolan

Moving Home

2006-08-17T15:55:43Z

This blog is going through a relocation plan - and is moving to a new and improved home.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ukax/default.aspx

Here you will be able to see the thoughts of the Microsoft Dynamics AX UK PTS (Partner Technical Specialist)team, Fee & Shailan, as well as links to all of the other UK Microsoft Dynamics UK PTS Blogs for CRM, NAV & GP.

See you on the other side :-)

The last post was created using Windows Live Writer Beta 1

2006-08-15T15:42:00Z

I've just downloaded this today, after a couple of my colleagues mentioned using it and liking it, it's briliant for creating blog postings, and very easy to use - what you see is what you get.

If you fancy giving it a try, download here Windows Live Writer Beta 1

With Office 2007 you can also create blogs directly from OneNote and Word

Convergence 2006 EMEA

2006-08-15T15:27:00Z

Convergence 2006 EMEA is the best place to learn how Microsoft Dynamics can benefit your business – and an unprecedented opportunity to meet with over 2000 of the key decision makers in the sphere of business management solutions.

William (Bill) H. Gates
Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, who will be presenting the opening Keynote Session on Monday 6 November 2006.

It will be held in Germany, 6–8 November 2006 at the International Congress Center Munich.
At Convergence EMEA, you can discuss solutions, address your business needs, and establish and grow a true network of valuable working relationships that will help accelerate your business. In addition to detailed product demonstrations and in-depth learning sessions, a host of exceptional speakers will present.
Convergence EMEA is an opportunity to build skills and know-how that enhance your solution knowledge and business productivity. Because experience is the best teacher, we have designed our sessions and presentations to address the real challenges of the diverse industries and markets in which business solutions are deployed today in EMEA and to present practical solutions.
Register before 29 September 2006 to qualify for the Early Bird offer and save €200 off the full price (€1,175)

Source: Convergence 2006 EMEA - Home

Partner Benefits Tool

2006-08-15T15:22:00Z

If you’re a Microsoft Registered, Certified or Gold Certified Partner you may find it difficult to find all of the tools and resources available to you as a member of the Microsoft Partner Programme;

We’ve created a Partner Benefits Tools (found by my wonderful colleague Jeremy) which allows you to see the tools and resources available:

By Partner Status (i.e. Registered, Certified or Gold)
By Partner Type (Benefits for all partners followed by ISV, OEM, System Builder etc)
By Sales, Marketing, Technical and Licensing Benefits

If you’re a Microsoft Partner, why not download the tool and discover all of your programme benefits. The tool is available in a pdf format and is really easy to use.

Virtualisation Demo Optimisation Tips & Tricks

2006-08-15T14:09:00Z

The attached documents the thoughts of Partner Technical Specialists in relation to virtual demo optimisation. I also find a small prayer pre-demo normally helps :-)

TAP Landing Page on PartnerSource

2006-08-14T18:34:00Z

For those of you that haven’t stumbled across this page yet, please find attached a link to case studies and videos in relation to the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Adoption Program.

On this page you will find Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 TAP case studies and videos. We are currently happy to present four Microsoft Dynamics AX TAP Case Studies and two Microsoft Dynamics AX TAP videos with three more case studies currently in the pipeline. Also note that should you wish to gain more information about any of the customers below or their cases all contact should be conducted through the individual partner involved.

New Snap-ins available for Preview

2006-08-14T18:30:00Z

Snap-ins available for preview(8/4/2006 10:23:46 AM)

After our first release in February, we have been working on phase 2 of the Microsoft Dynamics Snap program wherein we are developing the next set of snap-ins which demonstrate scenarios to enhance productivity of users by integrating Microsoft Office 2007 with Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 and with Microsoft CRM 3.0. Our plan in phase 2 is to keep releasing the preview versions of snap-ins that reach the beta stage to receive and incorporate the early feedback from the community before the final release planned for October. The current release makes available for preview the counterparts of the snap-ins of the last release - Customer Journal Snap-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and Custom Report Generator Snap-in for Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0. The Customer Journal Snap-in allows a sales professional to view and carry with him to a sales meeting, the relevant details of a customer (e.g. contact info, orders, service requests and more) which are copied over from Dynamics CRM to an Microsoft Office Infopath 2007 form. The Sales professional can make changes and take notes using this InfoPath form in offline mode during the meeting and later synch them back to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 server on the click of a button. The Custom Report Generator Snap-in is a configurable Microsoft Excel 2007 report generator that allows a power user or an ISV to create a gamut of reports by binding data from Microsoft Ax 4.0. It also allows updating some of this data back into the Microsoft Dynamics Ax system. The snap-in ships with example reports that are useful for Finance and Budgeting domain. As always, we await your feedback and suggestions. Please use the message board thread titled 'Feedback on Phase 2 Snap-ins for AX 4.0' on the Microsoft Dynamics Snap Sandbox (http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/dynamicssnap) and the 'Microsoft CRM Snap' message board thread on the Microsoft CRM Sandbox (http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=b6499eb0-0eae-4597-b38e-ee9cbc71a404) to let us know your feedback on the AX 4.0 and CRM 3.0 Snap-ins respectively.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics AX Integration Scenarios White Paper

2006-05-25T01:55:00Z

In an effort to help companies improve their efficiency through enhanced communication and collaboration, Microsoft recently developed 30 applications for Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services. This white paper details three different scenarios showcasing how a company could benefit from integrating these applications with back-end Microsoft Dynamics AX data. The white paper is now available at PartnerSource.

Microsoft Dynamcs New AX4.0 New PartnerSource launch page is live here

2006-05-16T13:40:00Z

Please find attached a link on PartnerSource to the Launch page for AX4.0.

Here you will find overview of all of the current information surrounding Launch Readiness for Microsoft AX 4.0 including launch readiness schedules, relevant supporting marketing collateral, launch activities and a whole lot more.