Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009
What is Enterprise Portal?
- Portal Platform for Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Rich development tools and technology
- Out-of-the-box self-service scenarios for customers, vendors, business partners and employees
- Personalized, role-based portal
Enterprise Portal Architecture
- Similarly to Desktop Ax 5.0 Portal builds on the rich Ax programming model and data binding
- It exposes the rich Ax Metadata Binding
- It uses the full flexibility of ASP.NET (code and markup)
- It uses the dynamic customization and personalization of SharePoint
- It unifies ASP.NET, SharePoint and Ax Metadata in the AOT
Value Proposition
End users
- Modern web experience (responsive & interactive)
- Utilizes AJAX for rich interactions
- Rich data visualization through controls
Developers
- Integrates with Visual Studio for design time experience
- Rich toolset for developers
- ASP.NET controls
- EP Controls ( List / Form / Look up etc..)
- SharePoint Web Parts
- Third Party ASP.NET controls
- User Controls
- Custom Controls
- ASP.NET pages
- Provides full control of UI rendering
- ASP.NET runtime and rich CLR language and libraries
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Allows associations of web parts in one page
Administrators
- End to End EP deployment completely integrated in Ax Setup
- Prerequisites checks built-in
- Auto Install WSS , Auto configure WSS , Auto create EP site
- No manual steps required
What's new in EP?
- New Asp.net based Framework
- Web Modules are Sub Sites
- One Site for All Ax companies similar to Client
- Context Specific EP help
- Reduced Configuration Steps ( For example, User Relation Configuration Optional for Role Centers ( Required for specific EP modules))
- End to End Deployment part of Ax Setup
- Consistent Navigation for Web Modules in Quick Launch
- Lots of new application functionality
- CRM in Sales Module
- Expense Management
- Purchase Requisition
- Service Management
- Compliance Center
- Role Centers
