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MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS–AXAPTA 3 .0

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Reference Guide

INTRODUCTION

Microsoft® Business Solutions–Axapta® is an integrated business applicationoptimized for midmarket and Corporate Accounts Segment (CAS*) enterprises thatoperate in the global marketplace. Microsoft Axapta empowers you to accelerategrowth, respond to changing markets and competition, and run your business theway you want to. The financial management, customer relationship management,supply chain management, human resource management, project management,and analytics functionalities work with Microsoft products such as SQL-server,BizTalk® Server, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows® tostreamline processes across your entire organization, giving you the insight torespond rapidly, plan strategically, and execute quickly.

Built on a proven foundation of advanced technology, Microsoft Axapta helps youseize global business opportunities with support for high transaction rates,hundreds or thousands of users across multiple sites, and local languages,currencies, and legal requirements for more than 30 countries. The solution isdelivered through a worldwide network of channel partners that provide specializedservices and local support tailored to your unique needs.

How to use this document:

This quick reference guide is specifically designed to be used by sales and non-technical staff in Microsoft Business Solution Certified Partner organizations. It canbe used as a knowledge enhancement tool, or to help describe specific modulesand functionality to customers. The language in this document is written in thesecond person ("you") form, in order to make it easy for partners to transform thetext into partner-ready statements.

The order of the modules and functionality in this doc follows the Microsoft Axaptaprice list, and partners may find it helpful to use this document together with theprice list when working with customers to determine customer requirements for aMicrosoft Axapta solution.

Future supplementary documents will describe other Microsoft Axapta-relatedfunctionality, such as Microsoft FRx, Microsoft Demand Planner, and MicrosoftAxapta Cost Accounting.

MICROSOFT AXAPTA BASE PACKAGE AND DATABASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT–AXAPTA . . . . . .5

Microsoft Axapta Financials I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Microsoft Axapta Financials II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Microsoft Axapta Electronic Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Microsoft Axapta Fixed Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT–AXAPTA . .11

Microsoft Axapta Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Microsoft Axapta Trade Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Microsoft Axapta Intercompany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Microsoft Axapta Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder I (Product Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder II (Validation Routes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder III (Routing Integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder IV (Advanced Product Building) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Microsoft Axapta Production I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Microsoft Axapta Production II (Routing Management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Microsoft Axapta Production III (Shop Management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Microsoft Axapta Master Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Microsoft Axapta Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control I (Time and Attendance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control II (Job Registration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control III (Payroll Generating) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Employee Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR PROJECT ACCOUNTING–AXAPTA . . . . . . .31

Microsoft Axapta Project I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Microsoft Axapta Project II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT–AXAPTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Microsoft Axapta Sales Force Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Microsoft Axapta Sales Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Microsoft Axapta Marketing Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Microsoft Axapta Telemarketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

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*CAS enterprises are defined as organizations with more than 1000 employees.

The Microsoft Axapta base package gives you the fundamental technology uponwhich you can add and build all the features and functionality of Microsoft Axapta.Microsoft Axapta has been designed with easy customization in mind. Theintegrated development environment and powerful, easy-to-use tools helpdevelopers cost-effectively implement, customize, upgrade, and maintain theirsolution.

"Microsoft Axapta helps companies accelerate thespeed at which they can do business, offering them akey competitive edge in today's complex, rapidly-changing markets. And it enables business leaders toworry less about day-to-day financial transactions, sothey can focus on the fast, informed decision-makingthat is crucial to meeting customer needs."

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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT–AXAPTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

ADDITIONAL MICROSOFT AXAPTA FUNCTIONALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Microsoft Axapta Balanced Scorecard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Microsoft Axapta Business Process Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Company Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Domains (Groups of Companies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Record Level Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Microsoft Axapta Business Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Database Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

COM Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Microsoft Axapta Commerce Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Microsoft Axapta Application Object Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

MICROSOFT AXAPTA ENTERPRISE PORTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Roles and Functionalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Employee Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Sales Representative Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Customer Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Vendor Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Consultant Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Questionnaire for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Human Resource Management for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Customer Resource Management for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . .68

Product Builder for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Performance Management for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

MICROSOFT AXAPTA CONCURRENT USERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Microsoft Axapta Windows Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Web Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

LANGUAGES IN MICROSOFT AXAPTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

MICROSOFT AXAPTA DEVELOPMENT TOOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Microsoft Axapta MorphX Development Suite for Microsoft Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81

MorphX Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

Microsoft Axapta MorphX Development Suite for Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

X++ Source Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

BUS Layer Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

VAR Layer Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

The Microsoft Axapta base package provides a foundation of:

• One user• Three company accounts• Three dimensions• Unlimited virtual companies• One specific language• Security and user management capabilities• Menu and form designer with IntelliMorph technology• One Microsoft Axapta Application Object Server (AOS)

Company Accounts and Virtual Companies

The Microsoft Axapta base package comes with three company accounts: • A demo account, which can be used for testing and training purposes

(note that testing can also be performed safely by duplicating the application and database).

• A DAT account, which is used to store non-company-specific data such as user permissions.

• A company data account, which contains all the busines information that will be used by the Microsoft Axapta solution.

You can include any given table in a "virtual company." By doing this, you can set any number of other company accounts to share the data in the virtual company. For example, you can place a currency exchange rate table in a virtual company, and share exchange rate data with any number of other company accounts. You can share inventory across multiple countries or decide to handle the bills ofmultiple companies with one shared application. Any changes in the table in thevirtual company will instantly be reflected in all the other accounts which share that company's data. You can also place any number of tables in a single virtualcompany.

Languages

The Microsoft Axapta base package includes one language, which is used to presentthe user interface, the online help, forms, reports and menus, printed reports,invoices, purchase and sales orders and other business documents, and by remoteusers in Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal interfaces. Additional languages can belicensed. See Languages, below. Microsoft Axapta also supports double bytecharacter technology.

System Configuration

All of the functionality of Microsoft Axapta is installed when you perform the initialimplementation, regardless of which modules you have chosen to license. When youfirst implement the solution, you get a series of license keys, based on the modulesyou have licensed. Each license key opens up a set of system and user configurationoptions, and you can choose the specific functionality you need by simply turning onthe appropriate configuration options. Any functionality you don't need to licenseremains hidden until the moment you need to unlock it later. Just enter the licensekey code for the new functionality, and it will appear throughout the system.

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Microsoft Financial Management can give you fast, reliable and comprehensiveaccounting, financial reporting and analysis capabilities. It lets you extend theappropriate information access within your business community, so that you canimprove the efficiency of your existing accounting processes.

The simple configuration architecture of Microsoft Axapta leads to fasterimplementation, lower implementation and maintenance costs, lower upgradecosts, and a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

IntelliMorph

Microsoft Axapta also uses IntelliMorph technology, so that users can hide andshow fields on forms, move fields between tab pages and even add new fields toforms. Users can make all these changes themselves, without needing to call ondevelopers for help. Best of all, when users add or delete items on forms, the forms"morph" automatically so that the user interface always looks appropriate andbalanced.

Database

Microsoft Axapta requires a database for data storage. All your company's businessinformation is stored in a single database. The simplicity of this all-in-onearchitecture can result in easier maintenance and upgrades, resulting in lower TCO.By using a single database, the solution eliminates the need for databasesynchronization and dramatically reduces the risk of data corruption.

The Microsoft Axapta solution itself handles interactions with the database,including operations like creating indexes, sorting and table synchronization.

Microsoft Axapta works with Microsoft SQL Server 2000™ and the Oracle 9idatabase.

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Microsoft Axapta Financials I

The Microsoft Axapta Financials I module includes basic functionality such asGeneral Ledger, bank management, accounts receivable and accounts payable.This module is a prerequisite for more advanced Microsoft Axapta modules andfeatures.

GENERAL LEDGER I

• Manage accounting periods flexibly and use a reliable year-end procedure including a closing sheet

• Multiple configurable journals with approval capability • Extensive posting control system • Handle multi-currency and exchange adjustment • Multiple structured budget • Extensive and flexible tax module feature • Advanced financial statement including alternative rows • Dimensions enable you to slice your data different ways, for more flexible

analysis, while reducing the complexity of your chart of accounts

BANK MANAGEMENT

• Bank account reconciliation, including bank account statement electronic import (for selected countries )

• Handling of check and monitoring of deposits, draft, and payments in general

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

• Monitor credit checks • Flexible terms of payment, including advanced payment schedules and cash

discounts • Free text invoicing (non stock invoicing)• Advanced collection letter and interest calculation • Payment journal with payment proposal features• Multiple currency handling and exchange rate adjustment

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

• Flexible terms of payment, including advanced payment schedules and cash discounts

• Multiple invoice entry options, such as separate handling of approved and unapproved invoices, and matching invoices to physical deliveries

• Payment journal with payment proposal features• Multi-currency handling and exchange rate adjustment

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Financials I gives you an inexpensive, fast and efficient way toregister financial transactions originating from accounts payable, accountsreceivable and the General Ledger.

Key question:

• Do your employees spend too much time processing financial transactions and maintaining journals and accounts in the General Ledger manually?

Prerequisite(s): None

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Microsoft Axapta Electronic Banking

Microsoft Axapta Electronic Banking is an add-on module that supports the importand export of payment files to financial institutions in several countries. Thefunctionality is spread across accounts receivable, accounts payable and bankmanagement.

ELECTRONIC BANK MANAGEMENT

• Export- and import formats for handling electronic payments

Benefit statement:

By handling incoming and outgoing payments electronically, you can reduce time-consuming manual processes, increase the speed of business and reduce thechance of human error.

Key question:

• Does your company spend too much time and resources managing payments manually

• Is your company cut off from certain customers or vendors who require electronic bank exchanges for payments?

Prerequisite(s): Financials I

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Microsoft Axapta Financials II

Microsoft Axapta Financials II includes inter-company accounting, multiple companyconsolidation capabilities, account allocations, and cash-flow forecasting andcurrency requirements projections. Microsoft Axapta Financials II helps companiesforesee future cash requirements and define automatic allocations to dimensionsbased on pre-defined settings.

ADVANCED GENERAL LEDGER

• Book transactions across companies with inter-company accounting functionality• Cash flow forecasting and currency requirement calculation allows projection of

future transactions based on commitments• Consolidate either online or through data exports and imports between

companies• Redistribute amounts automatically, according to predefined setups of accounts,

dimensions and percentages

Benefit statement:

The advanced General Ledger features in Microsoft Axapta Financials II help youmanage relationships between subsidiary and home offices within the samecompany, and make accurate cash flow forecasts. You can automate inter-companyaccounting, in order to manage consolidation. Microsoft Axapta Financials II alsolets you make cash flow forecasts, so you can anticipate cash and liquidityrequirements.

Key questions:

• Does your company spend a large amount of resources on manually tracking subsidiary operations or separate business groups, plants or offices in the General Ledger?

• Are you maintaining multiple separate general ledgers or even worse, multiple system architectures across your company?

• Are you sometimes unable to anticipate future cash requirements?


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Microsoft Supply Chain Management helps you manage materials, information, andtransactions as they move through the process from supplier to manufacturer toretailer to customer, so you can reduce inventory, lower costs, and improve time-to-market. You can attach dimensions to inventory, to be able to view and analyze yourinventory in many different ways. The solution connects employees, suppliers andcustomers to help manage functions such as manufacturing, distribution, inventoryand procurement, so you can reduce operational costs.

Microsoft Axapta Fixed Assets

Microsoft Axapta Fixed Assets uses assets budgeting and multiple depreciationmodels to track the status of your company's fixed assets. Integration with otherparts of Microsoft Axapta means you can order and receive fixed assets throughpurchase orders and inventory.

F IXED ASSETS MANAGEMENT

• Fixed assets budgeting• Multiple depreciation models• Integrated to purchasing and inventory functionality• Bar code handling

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Fixed Assets helps customers manage the entire lifecycle of theirfixed assets, from acquisition to re-sale or write-off.

Key question:

• Do you spend too much time tracking the status of your fixed assets in the General Ledger and elsewhere?

• Are you maintaining multiple sets of fixed asset data?


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Microsoft Axapta Trade

Microsoft Axapta Trade automates the entire sales process. When you enter salesorders, the system automatically checks credit limits, customer accountinformation, and inventory levels so you can give your customers real-timeinformation. You can print, fax, e-mail, or (with Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal)publish order confirmations on the Web. You can also offer your customers flexibleinvoicing options, keep track of backorders, and manage returned items.

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• Initiate purchase order from production orders, sales orders, or inventory coverage rules

• Generate a price calculation in real-time for increased customer service• Compare cost prices against revenue• Automatically convert purchase units into inventory handling units, or convert

inventory handling units into sales units• Create credit notes from invoice journals• Get a notification of backorders when receiving goods, and follow up on purchase

backorders• Print backorder information on delivery documentation and invoices• You can automatically substitute unavailable items with alternate items• Cost price principles: FIFO, LIFO, standard cost price, and weighted average• Easy reconciliation of inventory values versus ledger transactions for revision

purposes• Add miscellaneous charges to item cost prices• Use tag counting and transfer to counting journal• Launch e-mails for confirming orders from within Microsoft Axapta

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Trade helps you deliver better and more consistent customerservice, and helps reduce costs by automating and optimizing your sales andpurchasing processes.

Key question:

• Are you still using manual processes to track your orders and backorders?• How fast can you get an overview of all your open orders?• Can you instantly share your open orders with production and purchasing, to

speed up your supply chain and deliver to customers on time?

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Microsoft Axapta Trade Agreements

The trade agreements functionality in Microsoft Axapta helps you set up detailedprice agreements with your customers and suppliers, including customer, vendor oritem-specific pricing and discounts. You can also automatically retrieve prices anddiscounts when entering orders and assign validity dates to prices for both itemsand customers.

MICROSOFT AXAPTA TRADE AGREEMENTS

• Set up price, discount, multi-line discounts and total discount on customers, vendors, and items as well as groups of these

• Set up prices and discounts in all currencies• Set up future prices and discounts without affecting current setup• Automatically retrieve prices and discounts when entering orders• Automatically calculate multi-line and total discounts on orders

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Trade Agreements increases the speed of order entries, and helpsensure correct pricing in sales and purchasing transactions. The module makes iteasier to work with complex price and discount structures, because the system willautomatically give your employees the correct price based on the details of eachtransaction. You can also maintain your price and discount structures more easily,by changing the prices and discounts of your items in batches.

Key question:

Can you easily keep track of all your price agreements with your customers andvendors?

Prerequisite(s): Trade

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Microsoft Axapta Intercompany

The Microsoft Axapta Intercompany functionality lets several subsidiaries ordistribution centers trade with each other internally within one Microsoft Axaptainstallation. Sales and purchase orders can be created manually or automaticallyacross your subsidiaries.

INTERCOMPANY

• Instantly create and update inter-company sales orders from purchase orders and vice versa

• Receive items automatically based on the selling subsidiary's delivery note• Invoice items automatically based on the selling subsidiary's invoice• Make stock-on-hand inquiries in all subsidiaries

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Intercompany can give you and your customer more accurateinformation on inventory on-hand and delivery times. You can minimize back orderson items you've promised customers, and reduce your stockholding costs by havingvisibility into inventory in all subsidiaries and sourcing inventory across locations.

Key question:

• Can one site at your company order inventory electronically directly from other sites in your network?

• Is your company forced to tie up funds in large safety stocks distributed across different sites, in order to keep from running out of inventory unexpectedly at any of those sites?

• Can you determine the exact inventory levels of items at all your sites, to make sure you can give your customers what you promised them?

Prerequisite(s): Trade Agreements

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Microsoft Axapta Product Builder I (Product Configuration)

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder I allows you to set configuration options for yourproducts, and lets users customize products to their own preferences. The moduleautomatically generates a bill of material (BOM), which captures the final customproduct configuration chosen by the customer or user.

By licensing Microsoft Axapta Product Builder modules with Microsoft AxaptaEnterprise Portal and the Microsoft Axapta Product Builder for Enterprise Portalfunctionality, you can extend your product configuration capabilities out to yourcustomers over the Internet. Please see Microsoft Axapta Product Builder forEnterprise Portal, below.

PRODUCT CONFIGURAT ION

• Integrated with Microsoft Axapta sales orders, purchase orders and production• You can give every user a customized interface, showing only product options that

apply to them• Let each customer configure their own products• Set default values for variables, so that they change, depending on user

accessing them or the inventory item involved• Limit some variables so that only specific users can change them• Reuse data from previous configurations • Generate item numbers based on the model variables• Configuration details can be printed on order documents using the standard

Microsoft Axapta document handling feature• Base price calculations on customers' choice of variables from product models.

These can be set to fixed amount, percentage or even programmed per variable• Export or import product models• Use sub models that inherit variables from top to bottom and visa versa

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder I simplifies and streamlines the process ofordering, planning and producing customized products, helping you win more ordersand increase customer loyalty. By creating a unique BOM for every product that iscustomized and ordered, you don't need to keep a massive catalog containing everypossible combination of product options.

Key questions:

• Do you give your customers a way to easily pick custom options for your products, without needing to involve sales staff?

• Are you struggling with a huge catalog of all your different item configurations?• Do you need a way to simplify your product configuration options and tracking?

Prerequisite(s): Logistics

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Microsoft Axapta Logistics

Microsoft Axapta Logistics helps you simplify your entire logistics process. You cantrack inventory in detail with item and storage dimensions. Quarantine managementlets you set apart items that need to go through quality control. Bar codefunctionality empowers your point of sale system and warehouse to track items andlocations electronically. The module also contains a flexible and robust Bill ofMaterials (BOM) designer.

MICROSOFT AXAPTA LOGIST ICS

• Enter and edit sales and purchase forecasts • Describe any item using up to three item dimensions: configuration,

size and color• Describe storage by using warehouse, pallets and locations• Track items using the serial and batch number dimensions• Get an overview of current on-hand inventory per warehouse• Drill down to the current on-hand situation by looking at any item or storage

dimension or combination of dimensions• Track batch and serial numbers throughout the system• Set aside items in quarantine using quarantine orders, either manually or

automatically when receiving items• Calculate the ABC analysis based on: revenue, cost value, margin, and carrying

costs, with user-defined limits• Maintain multiple barcodes per item• Maintain multi-level BOMs, with version and date control of multiple BOMs• BOM explosion for materials planning and pricing calculation on all BOM levels• Graphical suite for designing BOMs and gaining insight into existing BOMs, based

on Microsoft drag-and-drop technology

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Logistics helps you flexibly manage inventory and purchasing, byconnecting production, purchasing and sales. A flexible BOM designer simplifies thecreation and tracking of BOMs. You can also reduce logistics costs by optimizingpurchasing processes, and management of your inventory and warehouse.

Key question:

• Can you track where your inventory is with precision, down to the individual warehouse, pallet and location?

• Do the pickers in your warehouses sometimes pick the wrong items?• Can you quickly find previously-used BOMs, and transform them into new ones if

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Microsoft Axapta Product Builder IV (Advanced Product Building)

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder IV lets you create more complex rules andformulas, using X++ code, which affects the options your customers and users canchoose while configuring products.

ADVANCED CONFIGURAT IONS

• Provides access to all of the tables and classes in your Microsoft Axapta installation

• Makes it possible to create complex formulas for tasks such as the calculation of raw material consumption

• Allows you to create advanced calculations using X++ programming language. Variables can be declared as any table, class or data type in Microsoft Axapta.

Benefit statement:

By applying more complex rules and formulas to the product configuration optionsyou present to your customers, you can create product models of much greatersophistication. Your customer will never see the code itself, but will be presentedwith a series of logical choices and sub-choices based on the product optionsavailable to them as they place the order.

Key questions:

• Are your product models too sophisticated or complex for your sales staff to work with quickly, accurately and consistently?

• Do you wish you had a simple, automated way to lead your customers through the process of ordering and configuring your more complex products?

Prerequisite(s): Product Builder I and X++ Source Code

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Microsoft Axapta Product Builder II (Validation Rules)

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder II lets you create validation rules for variablesgroups of variables, and the complete product configuration, to help ensure thatcustomers don't choose a combination of product options that you will not be ableto produce. Each variable is a product option that can be chosen by your customers.

VAL IDAT ION RULES

• Validate values and display an error message built from the condition• Create rules that govern the allowed content of variables (each variable, for a

group of variables, or for all variables in a complete product model)• Each time a customer makes a product configuration choice, other configuration

options are turned on or off appropriately

Benefit statement:

This module gives you an automated way to maintain the integrity of your productconfigurations, helping you ensure that customers stay satisfied and don't choose aproduct with options you can't deliver.

Key question:

• Have your salespeople ever promised your customers item configurations that you were unable to produce and deliver?

Prerequisite(s):

Product Builder I

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder III (Routing Integration)

Microsoft Axapta Product Builder III lets you set up default routes through yourproduction process. The module then automatically chooses the most efficientroute for every order placed through the Microsoft Axapta Product Builder, based onthe item configuration and quantity ordered by the customer.

ROUTING INTEGRAT ION

• Allows the creation of production specific routes and job cards for each configured item

• Default routes, as templates for the routes created in the product model• Inserts complete default route in product model

Benefit statement:

This module can make your production process more efficient by dynamicallychoosing the best route for every order.

Key question:

• Does your company have to maintain a large catalog of possible routes, and spend time choosing routes manually for each order?

Prerequisite(s): Product Builder I and Production II

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Microsoft Axapta Production II (Routing Management)

Microsoft Axapta Production II lets you plan and execute routes, operations andrough capacity to get accurate lead times. You can use finite or infinite scheduling,and you can track costs and calculate scrap, while posting all business informationautomatically to the General Ledger.

ROUTE COMPLEXIT Y

• Plan simple, sequential routes, or complex networks of routes • Plan simultaneous operations in route networks, by using primary and secondary

operations in a route• Multiple work centers attached to the same operation• Allocate a work center as a subcontractor

SCHEDULING

• Finite or infinite scheduling, forwards and backwards from various dates• Rough cut capacity planning

OPERAT ION COMPONENTS

• Describe each operation component in the production route by any of a number of descriptors, such as queue time, set-up time, run time, and overlap quantity

SCRAP CALCUL AT IONS

• Calculate expected waste per operation as a percentage, both by individual operation and by accumulated scrap over the whole production process

COST TRACKING

• Track detailed costs related to resources and throughput• Include work center costs in production cost estimation• Use automatic work center consumption when starting or finishing productions

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Production II helps you plan your resources to get the greatestefficiency out of your production process. You can track production progress andeasily make changes to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Real-time updating ofresource data helps you manage capacity and optimize your resource use, to drivedown production costs and get more accurate delivery dates.

Key questions:

• Is your production floor less efficient than it should be, because a lack of visibility into your resource capacit makes it difficult to create good routes and plans?

• Do you know at any given moment where your biggest production costs are?

Prerequisite(s): Resources and Production I

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Microsoft Axapta Production I

Microsoft Axapta Production I gives you the ability to create a production BOM, inorder to track the raw materials that go into your finished products. Actual rawmaterial consumption and finished product information is automatically posted tothe General Ledger from this module.

PRODUCTION ORDERS

• Production orders can be categorized into pools for scheduling or groups to be posted in the General Ledger

• Track actual production costs against estimated costs• Link sub-contractor purchase orders to the production order• Plan production orders directly from sales orders

PRODUCTION B ILL OF MATERIALS

• A standard BOM is copied to the production order, from where it can be modified, if needed

• Supports negative quantity on BOM lines to handle by-products of production • Each item within a BOM can be controlled by line-types, such as sub-production,

phantom BOM, subcontract or normal item• A graphical BOM display gives you a visual representation of changes you make

to create "what if" scenarios

SCHEDULING

• Production scheduling can be done forward or backward with different dates as starting points based on lead time of raw material

• Finite or infinite material scheduling• Rough cut or detailed job scheduling

PRODUCTION CONSUMPTION

• All consumption is reported through journals. Journals can be automatically generated and posted.

• Supports backward flushing of items.• Scrap can be handled either as a constant or a variable

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Production I helps you minimize lead times and satisfy customerdemand with flexible BOM scheduling options. On-line updating of Work in Progress(WIP) and actual costs to the General Ledger means that you can always have anup-to-date picture of where products are in your production process.

Key question:

• Can you get an up-to-date, on-demand overview of raw materials consumption in your production process?

Prerequisite(s): Logistics and Master Planning

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Microsoft Axapta Master Planning

Microsoft Axapta Master Planning uses information from across your company andsupply chain to help you optimize production and materials planning, andscheduling. Finite materials and capacity scheduling can be performed at the sametime so that available capacity, inventory levels and purchase lead times are takeninto consideration in production planning.

FORECAST SCHEDULING AND MASTER PL ANNING

• Forecast scheduling provides you with an overview of longer-term purchase, production and resource requirements based multiple forecast scenarios

• Create multiple plans for short term master scheduling, to explore material andcapacity requirements based on existing orders or different scenarios

COVERAGE GROUPS

• A coverage group lets you attach different time fence controls to different items• Products or items that are more time consuming to produce should have a longer

time fence, to allow for production planning over a longer period

SCHEDULING METHODS

• Set two different levels of scheduling: operations scheduling, which schedules operations and lead times by day, and job scheduling, which schedules operations by day and time

MESSAGES

• Future messages flag orders that cannot be delivered on the requested date. The future message shows the earliest possible delivery date based on materials and capacity requirements.

• Action messages suggest changes to existing orders and planned orders to confirm adequate quantity in inventory to meet requirements, and will also suggest updated delivery dates based on lead times

ORDER PROMIS ING

• Available-to-promise (ATP): calculates delivery date based on available inventory and current production orders

• Capable-to-promise (CTP): calculates delivery date based on available materials and production capacity

• Microsoft Axapta Sales and Marketing enables you to tie proposals to planning materials in Microsoft Axapta Master Planning

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Master Planning can help you tightly plan production, purchase andtransfer orders and net requirements. You can minimize lead times and maximizeon-time deliveries to customers, respond quickly to changes in demand and reduceinventory levels.

Key question:

• Do you maintain large safety stocks distributed across different sites, in order to keep from running out of inventory unexpectedly at any of those sites?

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Microsoft Axapta Production III (Shop Management)

Microsoft Axapta Production III provides a Gantt chart to give you a graphic overviewof your production process. You can reschedule jobs simply by dragging anddropping jobs on the Gantt chart. The module also gives you detailed jobmanagement and production scheduling, including the ability to schedule jobs ineach work center by the minute and second.

GANTT CHART

• Get a graphical presentation of your production schedules, for easy visualization• Reschedule your jobs simply by dragging and dropping in the Gantt chart

TASK GROUP

• Use alternative work centers for an operation in case of scheduling overloads• Set up basic rules for which alternative work centers can be used

BOTTLENECK SCHEDULING

• Determine where your production bottlenecks are easily, by checking future capacity loads

• By rescheduling jobs to avoid the bottleneck, Microsoft Axapta automatically reschedules the rest of the route to reflect the new capacity loads

JOB MONITORING

• Track the setup job or the process job per operation• Report resource consumption based on job number

SCHEDULING PROPERTIES

• Set up jobs that require the same work center to all reach that work center concurrently

Benefit statement:

The Gantt chart in Microsoft Axapta Production III lets you easily visualize yourproduction process and work center utilization as a whole, to help anticipate andavoid bottlenecks. The simple, drag-and-drop rescheduling function helps you savetime in planning, and the detailed job management functionality gives you tightcontrol over every aspect of your production floor.

Key questions:

• Can you get an instant visual overview of the present and future status of your production floor?

• Can you anticipate bottlenecks far enough in advance to do something about them?

Prerequisite(s): Production II

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Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control I (Time and Attendance)

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control I helps you reduce manual data entry withautomated collection of employee time and attendance. Set up profiles to trackemployee attendance, and capture actual attendance and absence timeautomatically.

COLLECT ION OF EMPLOYEE T IME AND ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

• Set rules for flexible working hours, while maintaining control of the total hours your employees spend on the job, including collection and management of overtime

• Register personnel absence• Two step validation procedure available to check time calculation and approval

status. Compare actual time registered to planned time• Supports KABA/Benzing job terminals with the collection of data on the shop

floor in online/offline environments

The module also includes the first 50 Shop Floor Employee Records.

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control I helps you accurately and inexpensively trackemployee attendance patterns.

Key question:

• Does your Human Resource department sometimes get into disputes with employees over attendance issues?

Prerequisite(s): Production I or Project I

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Microsoft Axapta Resources

All the resources your company uses for production can be divided into four workcenters: machinery, people, tools and vendors. Microsoft Axapta Resources helpsyou register and organize all your production or project resources, so you can useother tools such as Microsoft Axapta Production or Microsoft Axapta Project to getthe maximum benefits from these resources.

RESOURCES

• Categorize resources across four work centers, and in terms of groups or individual resources

• You can define each resource in terms of efficiency, to track that some resources complete jobs more quickly than others

• Set the capacity of each work center with a unique calendar that shows the work center's availability over time

• Define a set-up cost and running cost per hour for each work center and an incremental cost per item, to give you more insight into total production or project costs

Prerequisite(s): To be used with Production II or Project I (see Project I below)

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Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control III (Payroll Generating)

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control III uses the data collected in Microsoft AxaptaShop Floor Control I and II to generate payroll data, complete with pay types andrates. For each employee, the module calculates the hourly wage as well as alltypes of bonuses and premiums. The payroll data generated by this module can beexported to an external payroll system for output.

MICROSOFT AXAPTA SHOP FLOOR CONTROL I I I

• Categorize payroll data into pay categories (see above)• Track payment data for piecework jobs• Your employees can define if overtime should be paid or allocated as time off • Generate payroll statistics• Payroll expenses can be allocated to individual production jobs and operations or

to projects• Payroll data is exported as a comma-separated file which can be read by virtually

any external payroll system, and can also support the Multivage and Agda payroll standards

Benefit statement:

This module can automatically categorize pay items and generate detailed payrolldata. Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control III lets you view statistics about youremployee's pay and premiums, for a deeper insight into your shop floor processes.

Key Question:

• Do you have detailed payroll data based on time and attendance and jobs registered?

• Can you reliably track overtime and other non-standard hours worked by your employees?

Prerequisite(s):

Shop Floor Control I

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Employee Records

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control I provides a license for 50 employee records.By licensing additional shop floor employee records, you can register additionalemployees in the shop floor employee table, allowing the activities of thoseemployees to be tracked by the Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control suite.

Prerequisite(s): Shop Floor Control I

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Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control II (Job Registration)

When a production order is scheduled, a number of jobs are created on the shopfloor to support the fulfillment of the order. Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control IIregisters the time and resources used, and the items created, for each job. Thisdata can then be transferred to Microsoft Axapta Production or Microsoft AxaptaProject, for analysis of actual costs of the items produced.

MICROSOFT AXAPTA SHOP FLOOR CONTROL I I

• You can bundle jobs together, to allow the same employee to work on several jobs simultaneously

• You can create a team function, by appointing a 'pilot' or team leader to register information on behalf of a team of employees

• Register non-productive time• Track progress on ongoing jobs, and simulate completion time based on current

progress

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Shop Floor Control II can improve the efficiency of your shop flooroperations with fast registration of real-time production information. The modulecan also give you an overview into expected completion times of ongoing jobs, andall data can be transferred to Microsoft Axapta Production or Microsoft AxaptaProject for further analysis.

Key question:

• Do you lack insight into all the jobs and processes taking place on your shop floor?

• Do you have the information you need to calculate the actual costs of your products?

Prerequisite(s): Shop Floor Control I

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Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management II

Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management II adds logic and rules to the placementof inventory across your warehouses. When you receive inventory items, this modulesuggests the optimal placement for storage in your warehouses, based on pre-setrules. When you receive an order, the functionality not only tells you where it is, butwill generate an optimized picking route.

PL ACEMENT AND STORAGE

• Specify different location and storage policies at both the warehouse level and the item level

• Random location storage functions determine the storage location based on rules regarding size, volume and heiht

WAREHOUSE ZONES AND LOCAT IONS

• Organize warehouses into storage zones in order to prioritize selection of locations for incoming inventory

• Specify warehouse locations on five levels: warehouse, aisle, rack, shelf and bin

SHIPMENTS

• Point out orders that can be shipped together to reduce total picking time• Consolidate shipments of multiple sales orders placed by the same customer• Derive output orders from sales order lines or production order lines

PALLET TRANSPORTS

• Create pallet transports to move groups of items within and between warehouses

BAR-CODING

• Print pallet label, location label and bill of lading labels that include bar codes for automatic tracking

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management II can save time and resources whenreceiving items by suggesting optimized placement for storage in your warehouses.Optimized picking routes can also save time when picking and shipping items fromyour warehouses. Overall, this module helps you respond more quickly to ordersand reduce inventory costs.

Key Question:

• Do your employees spend too much time trying to find the best place to store newly received items in your warehouses?

• Are your warehouse operations less efficient than they should be, because your employees don't use picking routes?

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Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management I

Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management I provides inventory dimensions, whichyou can add to all your inventory items to track not only which warehouse they arein, but also precisely where they are stored in each warehouse.

INVENTORY D IMENSIONS

• Eight different dimensions, such as warehouse, location, pallets, item origin and configuration, to specify the exact location of items in inventory

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Warehouse Management I gives you a way to track precisely whereall your inventory is stored across your warehouses. This helps reduce the time youremployees spend searching for items or products, and can speed up your responsetime for fulfilling orders and delivery.

Key Questions:

• Do your employees spend too much time searching your warehouses for items or products?

• Have you ever lost orders because your employees couldn't find items in your warehouses quickly enough?

Prerequisite(s): Logistics

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Microsoft Project Accounting provides a strong platform to help users control projectfinances. The functionality supports companies that run projects which includeconsumption of non-tangible resources such as internal and external consultanthours, and tangible items such as cable, concrete and raw materials. With thisfunctionality, you can get an overview of the financial health of your projects inrelation to budget at any time in the project life cycle. Many or all ongoing projectscan be analyzed as a group, to give you an update on overall performance. Forexample, the solution can pro-rate costs and revenue against the completionpercentage of a project or group of projects, to give you a more accurate view intothe status and performance of projects that are still in progress.

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Microsoft Axapta Project I

Microsoft Axapta Project I lets you track time and materials consumed and conductfinancial follow-up on time and material projects and internal projects. WithMicrosoft Axapta Project I, you can itemize time and materials for invoicing, whileretaining sales prices and cost prices of items and man hours.

REGISTRAT ION AND DATA ENTRY

• Itemize costs, hours and materials consumed and enter them into the journal. With Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal, this can be done from remote sites over the Internet

INVOIC ING

• Invoice each project or project group, and retain itemized time and resource costs • Sub projects can also be invoiced separately or together, which makes it possible

to have a single project with multiple invoices for different customers• Approval procedures can be set for invoices, to make sure that invoices are

signed off by responsible managers before being sent to the customer• Prepayments can be tracked and applied to future invoices• Enter project costs directly into accounts payable or purchase orders

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Break down the time and materials used on projects and assign individual hours or items to sub-projects for more detailed control of costs and consumables

• Project structures can be saved, so that budgets, sub-projects and activities can be copied from previous projects and applied as a template to new projects

• Schedule tasks and allocate resources and capacity to future tasks

ACCOUNTING

• Microsoft Axapta Project I is tightly integrated with Microsoft Axapta General Ledger, so that dimensions can be applied to every transaction in a project

• Detailed posting profiles can be set up, so that transactions can be posted to specified ledger accounts depending on pre-set criteria

INQUIRY AND REPORTING

• A report generator allows extended reporting with load and save capabilities• A statistic form compares project budgets to consumption over time• General Ledger integration makes it easy to follow transaction needs for a single

project or group of projects

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Project I is designed for project-focused companies, and alsocompanies that run projects such as research programs, services, IT installations,and product support. The module can analyze progress in real-time, comparing theperformance of each project or the entire company against pre-defined goals.

Key Questions:

• Can you quickly analyze the performance of internal and external projects by comparing resources spent and revenue earned to the project budgets?

• Are you concerned with your ability to effectively manage your cash flow, because of delays in invoicing customers for work performed?

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The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality in Microsoft Axaptahelps you maximize benefits from all of your business relationships. By gathering allinformation in one place the solution tracks all sales and marketing activities andkeeps the information structured and readily available. Contact between people isthe central theme of the customer relationship management functionality. Thesolution can work with precisely-defined groups of customers, giving sales andmarketing professionals the insight to better segment leads, identify customerneeds, and to make optimal sales and marketing decisions. By being a completelyintegrated part of Microsoft Axapta, it lets users effectively share information on allaspects of their business relationships, helping every employee in your organizationbecome a customer expert.

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Microsoft Axapta Project II

Microsoft Axapta Project II provides advanced financial management of projects,including work-in-progress analysis of more complex time and material projects,internal projects, and fixed-price projects.

L ARGE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

• Manage fixed price projects or projects with a mix of fixed price and time and materials components

• The solution presents different options for financially-sound management of your fixed price projects, such as booking costs and revenue at intervals as the project progresses, or booking costs and revenue only upon project completion

WORK IN PROGRESS PROJECTS

• You can specify work-in-progress (WIP) accounts to collect transactions that don't affect the profit and loss statement during the course of the project

• Track projects that use WIP accounts and move transactions between WIP accounts and the General Ledger

PROJECT COSTS AND PERFORMANCE

• Calculate consumption on individual cost groups, such as hours spent or materials consumed on a given project, sub-project or group of projects

POSTING

• A choice of 14 posting principles can be applied to internal, time and material, and fixed-price projects

• The principle applied to a given type of project can be applied to all projects of that type

• Control types can be set so employees can only enter data for categories or projects that are relevant to their jobs

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Project II gives you an overview of your work in progress onprojects. The solution helps take the guesswork out of fixed price and time andmaterial projects, by incorporating work in progress principles that only affect theprofit and loss statement in accordance with accepted accounting principles. Youcan measure the progress of your projects at any given moment, and compare yourprogress with goals according to time and budget.

Key Question:

• Can you book costs and revenue for your projects as they are in progress, to make sure you come in on time and budget?

Prerequisite(s): Project I

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Microsoft Axapta Sales Force Automation

Microsoft Axapta Sales Force Automation registers prospect and customer information,and the details of each interaction between your sales staff and the outside world.

CONTACT MANAGEMENT

• Store information on prospects, customers, vendors, and other business contacts• Register activities associated with the sales process• Synchronize appointments and tasks with Microsoft Outlook®

• Drag and drop files, documents and e-mails from Windows Explorer and Microsoft Outlook into the document handling system of Microsoft Axapta

• Track all additions, changes and deletions to contact and sales process information performed by your sales staff

• Track all mailings, telephone and e-mail communications between sales staff and the outside world

• Generate communications to groups of customers based on selected criteria applied to customer data

SALES PROCESS MANAGEMENT

• Generate leads by importing them from external sources, then allocate responsibility for leads to your sales staff and track the quality of leads

• Extend offers to groups of leads, based on customized profiles• Full integration with other parts of Microsoft Axapta gives you easy access to

sales-related information— All the relevant product, project and financial data, such as manufacturing

cost, item availability and delivery time can be available to sales staff, depending on the Microsoft Axapta modules licensed in your solution

— Quotations are closely integrated to sales orders and master planning• Track the effectiveness of sales and marketing staff• Assign probability percentages to your sales quotations, in order to get a better

overview of your sales pipeline and help optimize your purchasing and inventory

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Sales Force Automation helps you manage their customerrelationships more effectively. Users can increase sales force productivity andeffectiveness, easily identify and seize sales opportunities, and gain a company-wideoverview of all customer and prospect-related activities.

Key Questions:

• Do you have precise and accurate contact information for all your customers?• Do you have easy access to information on what customers have bought and

what they could potentially buy before you make a customer call?• When talking to a customer on the phone, are you able to able to identify at a

glance what type of customers they are and which activities your colleagues have made towards this customer?

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Microsoft Axapta Marketing Automation

Microsoft Axapta Marketing Automation lets you divide your customers andprospects into groups, based on sales and demographic information from MicrosoftAxapta Sales Force Automation. By grouping your customers and prospects it can beeasier identify likely customers, or the most valuable customers, so you can developbetter, more tightly-targeted marketing campaigns. This module can also be used tomanage non sales-related communications such as newsletters and membershipdrives.

COMMUNICAT IONS MANAGEMENT

• Create campaigns based on sales and demographic information• Assign communications tasks to sales or marketing staff based on

responsibilities and specializations• Link campaigns, questionnaires, projects and Web responses• Divide campaigns into sub-campaigns, to reach more specific audiences• A campaign can be linked to a project, so that financial data about campaign

execution can be recorded (requires Microsoft Axapta Project I)• Broadcast campaigns over e-mail, Web, faxes, mailings and phone• Use old campaign structures as templates for new campaigns

MARKETING ENCYCLOPEDIA

• Common repository for all of your sales and marketing collateral• Exchange sales and marketing knowledge • Review sales material such as information on product line, products and price lists • Categorize sales and marketing materials for quick access• (i.e. product line, white papers, graphics, and videos) • Access information in the encyclopedia which supports Web links, audio/video

clips, presentations and graphical software • Track competitor information and trends with competitor websites for review

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Marketing Automation helps you make campaign planning,execution and analysis easier by grouping customers and prospects together basedon criteria you can specify, and by placing all relevant marketing information at yourfingertips. You can base campaigns on back office and front office information,which helps you organize, execute, track and analyze them more easily and withgreater insight.

Key Questions:

• Do you have an easy way to segment your customer or prospect base and send a consistent package of marketing material or communications to any given segment?

• Can you pull up an in-depth analysis of customer feedback from your last marketing campaign, so you can learn how to make your next campaign even better?

• Do your marketing professionals have enough customer feedback information to build a picture of who your customers are and what they want?

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Microsoft Axapta Sales Management

Microsoft Axapta Sales Management lets you view the activities and performance ofyour sales staff, sales teams and the entire sales organization. You can drive yoursales teams by managing and monitoring tasks, leads and assignments via aworkbook and task-oriented system for individuals and teams.

SALES STAFF BUDGETING

• Define sales targets for individuals and teams• Automatically compare sales figures with budgets, to measure sales performance• View sales performance by multiple selected dimensions, to aid sales flow

analysis

MANAGEMENT STAT IST ICS

• Manage and monitor the activities of sales teams• Track the status of sales activities, including pending sales quotations and lead

management• Track the performance and activities of specific sales people • Display sales data graphically to simplify analysis• Export sales data and graphics to external applications

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Sales Management helps you make detailed queries on sales andmarket data from Microsoft Axapta Sales Force Automation. The query results helpyou gauge effectiveness and measure performance across your sales organization,so you can simplify and improve the management of your sales pipeline.

Key Questions:

• Can you easily measure the performance of individual members of your sales staff?

• Can you track where your leads are in the sales process compared to last year?• Can you easily get a full overview of your sales performance – both past and

present?• Can you easily get details on your sales pipeline – today and tomorrow?• Do you need to follow up on your sales representatives on a daily basis?


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Microsoft Human Resource Management can help you quickly adapt yourorganization to meet new challenges. There are three modules, so you can startwith the core functionality and implement more modules as your business grows.

Microsoft Axapta Telemarketing

Designed for sales teams or telemarketing groups, Microsoft Axapta Telemarketingsupports telephone-related customer support and marketing programs, includingsales-lead generation, customer surveys, direct marketing campaigns and customersupport.

TELEMARKETING OVERVIEW

• Create call lists based on contacts in business relation and contacts table• Integration between campaigns and call list• Integrate questionnaire data in the sales process• With the Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire functionality, you can build custom call

scripts, to guide staff through phone call interactions• A telemarketing window contains all the relevant information your marketing and

customer support specialists need on their calls• Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) via TAPI• Full call logging that includes time, date, duration, caller etc.• Extract customer groups and allocate responsibility for calls to these groups

across your telemarketing or phone support staff• Analysis tools measure employee performance and call statistics

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Telemarketing helps users execute and manage telephone-assisted sales and marketing activities from one connected solution. The modulelets users improve lead generation and qualification, execute guided calls efficientlywith call center functionality, and use data from telemarketing activities directly inthe sales process.

Key Questions:

• Do you know how effectively your telemarketing personnel use their time?• Do your marketing and customer support specialists have a single tool that gives

them all the information they need about leads and customers, and which helps them manage individual calls consistently?

• Can you take information from your telemarketing processes and spread the knowledge out to support your overall sales processes?


Customer Resource Management for Enterprise Portal

See under Enterprise Portal Framework.

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Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management I

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management I can store employee informationand agreements, note the reasons for a resignation and keep track of transfersbetween departments. Human Resource Management I includes the first 100employee records free of charge. Additional employee records can be licensed inthe initial implementation, or added as your company grows. See the price sheet fordetails.

CORE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Core human resource management administrative functionality• Store payroll information, historical data, job and position information • Register of benefits • Manage loaned items• Manage and measure actual employee skills and compare them to skill targets• Generate reports for follow-up, periodic reporting and management decision

support

ORGANIZAT ION

• Manage line, matrix and project organizations• Maintain your organizational structure and create new business units• Visual, function-oriented organizational charts

Benefit statement:

The framework of Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management I can be easilyadapted to fit the specific needs of your business, so your employees can pull outexactly the data and information they need. With visual, function-oriented diagrams,you can create organizational charts for full, matrix, and project overviews, and caneasily change the organizational framework to reflect changes in your organization.

Key Question:

• Do your Human Resource Management employees spend too much time manually collecting and tracking employee information?


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Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management III

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management III can give your human resourceprofessionals an overview of your resources and identify potential skill gaps in yourorganization. Course administration tools help your human resource staffadminister training opportunities within your organization.

EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT

• Personal development plan with activities and deadlines• Periodic interview management• Microsoft Outlook integration support for interview administration

COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT

• Graphical tools for skill-gap analysis• Skill-gap analysis based on job profiles and skill assessment• Skill searches support filtering and weighting of skills

COURSE ADMINISTRAT ION

• Register course details, instructors, participants and locations• Manage training agendas, tracks and sessions• Link course completion and CV or resume information• A participant list captures participants' training history• Reports for waiting list, confirmation and certificates

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management III lets your employees definechallenging and compelling career goals that reflect the company's businessstrategy. Employees, their managers, and the human resource department can thenview these agreements and evaluate progress in a continuous dialogue.

Key Question:

• Do you have enough information to drive the strategic aspects of your employees' and organization's development?

Prerequisite(s): Human Resource Management I and II

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Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management II

This module collects information regarding your company's recruitment process,including internal data like job profiles, and external-facing material like recruitmentcorrespondence and media responses. The module also helps you track absencesand understand trends in absenteeism.

ORGANIZAT ION

• Administer position groups and positions or jobs• Create job profiles and describe roles and requirements

RECRUITMENT

• Manage the recruitment process • Automate correspondence through integration with Microsoft Word • Microsoft Outlook integration support for interview administration• Statistical overviews of the recruitment process• Measure media response

ABSENCE MANAGEMENT

• Define multiple absence categories• Register absences individually and collectively• Statistical and graphical presentation of absence data

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Human Resource Management II helps your human resourcesdepartment learn from the experiences of previous recruitment campaigns andpinpoint the most effective media and methods for sharper, more effectiverecruiting messages.

Key Questions:

• Do your company's recruiting communications and processes lack consistency and take too many resources to execute?

• Do you have an overview of absenteeism across your organization, and can you identify and quantify reasons and trends in employee absences?

Prerequisite(s): Human Resource Management I

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Microsoft Axapta Balanced Scorecard

Microsoft Axapta Balanced Scorecard gives you the power to define KeyPerformance Indicators (KPIs) as part of your business plan, to track almost anymeasurable aspect of your business. With KPIs, you can evaluate your overallbusiness performance according to your business plan, track performance, andmeasure fulfillment of business goals.

KNOWLEDGE ACCOUNT PL AN

• Create a structure and overview of your Balanced Scorecard• Set up KPIs • Compare KPI target to actual KPI results• Group business information within different perspectives, such as "customers,"

"internal processes," "organization" and "financial"• Link KPIs to organizational units through Microsoft Axapta Human Resource

Management I

MEASUREMENTS

• Use a measurement wizard to easily query on data and define KPI measurements• Your KPIs can be linked to data either manually, from within Microsoft Axapta, or

from an external data source.

CALCUL AT IONS

• Built-in tools help you define and control the consistency of your methods when designing KPIs

PERIODIC MEASUREMENTS

• Define how often you want Microsoft Axapta to run automatic measurements and reporting

• Simulate future KPI results, using different performance scenarios

REPORTING AND STAT IST ICAL ANALYSIS

• You can customize the graphical presentation of each KPI• Target performance information towards a specific management team, by

selecting specific KPIs for specific team members

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Balanced Scorecard helps you monitor and optimize your businessperformance by using KPIs. By comparing your results to the KPIs set by yourbusiness plan, you can take immediate action to fine tune your operations andprocesses.

Key Questions:

• Do you know at any given moment where your current business is compared to the goals you've set?

• Does your company have a consistent, objective method of analyzing performance information?


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Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire I

Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire I provides integration to sales and marketingfunctionality. You can design a questionnaire as part of their human resourcesprocedure, to support Customer Relationship Management (CRM) processes, tocoach telemarketing personnel, or to send the questionnaire to a target group aspart of a campaign and collect responses over the Web.

DESIGN AND EXECUTION

• Design and deploy surveys rapidly• Deliver instructions to Individual questions along with the question• Each question is linked to an answer mode identified by text, date, numeric value

or an answer collection defined by the questionnaire administrator• Enable free-text answers to any type of question.• Openly define response options • Deliver questions sequentially or in random order• Indicate the percentage of questions in a specific questionnaire that need to be

answered in order to obtain a valid result• Accompany questions by rich media (pictures, audio video, etc.)• Design a question with sub-questions • Set up questionnaires with a branching structure, so that the questions a user

sees depend on the answers to previous questions in the survey• Manage access control and user profiles

REPORTS AND QUEST IONNAIRE ANALYSIS

• Get a response history by questionnaire and individual• Get a result report, answer report and "wrong answers" report

QUEST IONNAIRE WEB PORTAL

(this functionality is available in the Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal framework)• Easy Web execution of surveys through Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal• View and analyze results online

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire is a powerful tool for designing, constructing andanalyzing surveys, which helps you get feedback from employees, customers,managers and other business contacts. You can use Microsoft AxaptaQuestionnaire to help qualify your leads by getting more information from prospects,while keeping existing customers separate. Responses are saved in the system,which lets you run analyses on the stored survey results and helps you make bettersurveys in future campaigns.

Key Question:

• Does feedback you receive from external surveys just disappear, or does your organization internalize what it learns?

• Is it a major drag on resources to design, deploy and follow up on a survey?


Microsoft Axapta Business Process Management

You can use Microsoft Axapta Business Process Management to analyze strengths,weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) and create a strategy that islinked to custom-designed KPIs. Best practices templates help you define actionsand processes that are aligned with the overall strategy.

STRATEGIC PL ANNING

• Create a strategic plan step-by-step• Identify status and end results• Register SWOT analysis results• Break-down visions to define goals and milestones• Plan and follow-up with actions on initiatives• Link to action management and KPIs in Microsoft Axapta Balanced Scorecard• Define templates for strategic plans• Link strategic plans to organizational units in Microsoft Axapta Human Resource I

ACT ION MANAGEMENT

• Use detailed information on responsibilities, time, priorities and status• Register actions • Track responses to actions and how different actions are related• Structure responses and generate diverted actions• Send actions as email or create as tasks in Microsoft Outlook• Implement process design by using action templates• Create actions with action planning, and distribute to the responsible people

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Business Process Management helps you define a strategy, andthen assign actions that support the strategy to individual employees. With thesetools, you can help focus every member of your organization on your business planand strategic goals.

Key Questions:

• Do you have clearly-defined processes and action plans in your company that are tightly linked to your overall strategy?

• Do you have a tool that tracks the progress and fulfillment of your business plan, action by action?


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Company Accounts

The Microsoft Axapta base package comes with three company accounts: • A demo account, which can be used for testing and training purposes

(note that testing can also be performed safely by duplicating the application and database).

• A DAT account, which is used to store non-company-specific data such as user permissions.

• A company data account, which contains all the business information that will be used by the Microsoft Axapta solution.

Each additional company account allows you to host a separate set of data for eachof your business units or clients. When a transaction is made in one companyaccount, it will not affect the data in any other company account. For example, anApplication Service Provider (ASP) would use a separate company account for eachof their clients, in order to keep the data sets separate. Also, multiple companyaccounts let customers build a separate data set for each of their business groups,plants or offices.

Even though the data in each company account is kept separate from othercompany accounts, it is possible for different accounts to share data tables, suchas zip codes, exchange rates or customer and vendor data. This reduces theamount of redundant data that needs to be stored. If desired, transactions can alsobe made between company accounts.

A thousand separate company accounts may be implemented in a single MicrosoftAxapta installation.

DATA STORAGE AND SECURIT Y

• Company accounts allow separate data sets to be stored within the same database.

• Separate company accounts can be modified independently. Transactions in one account do not affect the data in separate accounts.

• Domains support user setup for multiple company accounts (see Domains, below)

Benefit statement:

Separate company accounts let you divide up your business data to supportseparate business groups in your company. You can also use company accounts tohost sets of data for other companies. Company accounts let Microsoft Axapta storeunique data sets in one installation, and allowing those separate sets interact withcommon tables. This maintains the data integrity of each account and can reduceTCO for your company.

Key Question:

• How do you host separate client accounts, or build and work with separate data sets for different internal business groups, plants or offices?


Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire II

Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire II gives you advanced distribution functionality thatlets you select a specific group of respondents and e-mail them a link to aquestionnaire that is tailored for them. The module also helps you carry outadvanced statistical calculations and get an overview of your feedback by viewingsurvey results graphically.

SCHEDULING

• Manage questionnaire planning• Plan and distribute surveys to selected respondents, such as, employees,

applicants, business partners, course participants, networks or organizations• Mail correspondence to all respondents about the survey

REPORTS AND QUEST IONNAIRE ANALYSIS

• Break down survey results by the demographics of respondents.• Display results graphically, with pivot tables and pivot graphics.

Benefit statement:

This module gives you the power to analyze survey results with past survey data, soyou can get a 360-degree analysis of the market feedback your surveys provide.

Key Questions:

• Do your company's survey methods allow you to reach individual groups of respondents with custom-designed questionnaires?

• Is it hard to grasp the meaning of the feedback you get from surveys, because the data is difficult to visualize?

Prerequisite(s): Base Package

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Dimensions

Dimensions help you analyze and classify financial transactions. Financialtransactions are usually organized according to voucher and account number.Additional grouping and classification options are available by assigning additionaldimensions to transactions. There are three default dimensions:• Department• Cost center• Purpose

You can license additional dimensions, to increase the level of detail at which youcan analyze your financial data, or to introduce new perspectives with which to lookat your financial data. Note that all functionality associated with dimensions isavailable with the Microsoft Axapta base package. The extra dimensions license keyjust increases the number of dimensions that can be created.

Dimension settings can be customized by increasing or decreasing the number ofdimensions tracked by Microsoft Axapta. For example, the dimensions "phonesales" and "Internet sales" can be applied to sales data, to give business leadersmore information about their sales figures and results.

Microsoft Axapta keeps dimensions independent from one another.

D IMENSIONS

• Dimensions values are applied and stored at the transaction level • Data can be aggregated by dimensions when running reports and inquiries• OLAP cubes use dimensions to analyze business data even further • Rules can be set on accounts to control postings to the General Ledger, according

to the dimensions applied• Default dimensions can be set on base data, such as ledger accounts and

customer accounts

Benefit statement:

Dimensions help you analyze your company's financial data from differentperspectives, so you can improve the effectiveness with which you track figuresacross accounts. The extra detail that dimensions lets you embed in your data givesyou a powerful tool for analyzing your business information and transforming theraw data into actionable knowledge. By labeling transactions in the same companyaccount with different dimensions, you can also reduce the number of companyaccounts you need to build and keep track of.

Key Question:

• Can you analyze and classify your company's financial transactions on more than three axes, in order to get detailed breakdowns of your figures and business data?


Domains (Group of Companies)

Separate company accounts can be grouped together into domains. Domains helpyou define user groups whose members have the same permissions in a number ofdifferent company accounts. The permissions of any given user group can be setuniquely for different domains. A single set of company accounts can belong toseveral domains.

Benefit statement:

Using domains in Microsoft Axapta can greatly simplify setting up user permissionsfor Microsoft Axapta implementations that have many company accounts.

Key Question:

• Do your company's administrators need to set up company-specific user permissions?


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Microsoft Axapta Business Analysis

With Microsoft Axapta Business Analysis, you can compare vendor data, analyzewarehouse operations, develop strategies to retain preferred customers and attractnew customers, create customer profiles and segmentation analyses, and more.

GENERAL

• Generate OLAP cubes to analyze business data by many dimensions or combinations of dimensions

• View OLAP cubes within Microsoft Axapta or in Microsoft Excel®, using pivot tables to visualize the data in different ways

• Full control of the analysis server and OLAP database from within Microsoft Axapta

MICROSOFT ANALYSIS SERVER

• Available on the Microsoft SQL Server 2000• Full synchronization with Microsoft Axapta• Create, maintain and control OLAP databases and cubes

GENERAT ION OF CUBES

• Create cubes in multiple currencies and languages• Periodic batch update possible for all cubes

SECURIT Y AND CONFIGURAT ION

• Microsoft Axapta controls access to cubes through user permissions and set up, so cubes can only be viewed by users with the right credentials

THIRD PART Y PRODUCTS

• Any third party product add-on which supports Microsoft Analysis Services can be used for viewing cubes, but third party add-ons are not necessary

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Business Analysis helps you analyze the factors that affect yourbottom line with flexible and customizable OLAP analysis tools. You can shareinformation such as customer purchasing and supplier inventory, and identify weakspots in your company's supply chain so that you can make the necessary changes.

Key Questions:

• Can you get actionable business information from your mass of business data?• Can you explore your business data from any parameter or set of parameters you

want?


Record Level Security

This functionality lets administrators set security and permissions for MicrosoftAxapta user groups at the individual record level. Restrictions can be placed on anynumber of tables on a per-user group basis. Security restrictions are applied withinindividual companies, and therefore allow different settings to be applied withindifferent companies.

For example, a Microsoft Axapta solution with Record Level Security enabled can beset to allow sales people within a user group to view and edit business informationfor only the customer records assigned to that user group.

RECORD LEVEL SECURIT Y FEATURES

• Allows administrators to specify user group-based permissions to each individual record within a table, rather than setting a blanket permission for the whole table

• Restrictions to tables must be explicitly set by administrators. If no Record Level Security has been specified, then all records in a table are accessible

• Note that Security in Microsoft Axapta is controlled by the permission system in the base package. Therefore, users will only be permitted the maximum access to data that is allowed by their user group setup in the core permission system.

Benefit statement:

Record Level Security works in addition to the standard permission system withinMicrosoft Axapta, and allows greater flexibility in setting permissions.

Key Question:

• Can you control security options for employees that only need to view and edit a subset of your business data, such as individual customer, project, vendor or employee accounts?


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COM Clients

Component Object Model (COM) technology is a Microsoft standard that can act asan interface between applications, even if they use different programminglanguages. Microsoft Axapta is fully COM-enabled. External applications can use aMicrosoft Axapta COM client to access the functionality of Microsoft Axapta or toexchange application data and business information with the solution.

Microsoft Axapta requires one COM client in order to use the Microsoft AxaptaEnterprise Portal Framework with a single role. One additional COM client isrequired for each additional Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal role. Some MicrosoftAxapta Enterprise Portal Roles may also require more COM clients, based on thenumber of users (see Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Roles).

In addition, external applications can use a COM client to interface with MicrosoftAxapta. For example, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word users can access MicrosoftAxapta functionality by using a COM client to handle the data exchange. In the caseof external applications, some extra code will need to be written to have theexternal application access the COM client.

Benefit statement:

COM clients increase the connectivity of your entire business, by unlocking thepower of Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal, and by letting Microsoft or third-partyapplications leverage the full functionality of Microsoft Axapta.

Key Questions:

• Do your company's business applications act like remote islands of functionality, with no way of leveraging each other's capabilities?

• Can your company's various business applications connect to and leverage the power of your business solution?


Database Log

Microsoft Axapta has its own built-in logging feature, which allows users oradministrators to see when a record was created or last changed, and who changedit. However, this information is only tracked for the last change made to eachrecord. If five users edit a given record, information will only be stored about thefinal edit.

By licensing the Microsoft Axapta Database Log, users and administrators get ahistory of the inserts, updates, renames, and deletes for tables and fields that theychoose within a set of company accounts. The log can track every transaction andchange in the system, or can track only selected tables. Users or administrators canview information about:• Type of change to each selected record, and the old and new values of the record

which has been changed.• The date and time of the change• The user who performed the change

Benefit statement:

The Microsoft Axapta Database Log can give administrators a detailed history ofevery transaction and every change that was made to any record in the system, or aselected set of tables. This improves administrators' oversight of company data.

Key Question:

• Can you view a history of the changes made to your tables and records, including a log of who made each change?


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Microsoft Axapta Application Object Server

A Microsoft Axapta Application Object Server (AOS) can execute business logic forthin clients and allow multiple connections and other types of clients to access theMicrosoft Axapta database, conduct load balancing, and much more. One or moreAOS are required to build a Microsoft Axapta installation with three-tier architecture.A three-tier implementation allows Microsoft Axapta to be run on thin clients overWide Area Network (WAN) connections, and can result in a lower TCO for the wholesolution. The Microsoft Axapta base package includes one AOS.

T WO- AND THREE-T IER ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT

• Three-tier thin client— Lower requirements for client machinery and bandwidth— Improved database security, because only the AOS has a connection to the

Microsoft Axapta database, eliminating the need for multiple client connections to the database

• Three-tier rich client— Takes advantage of the greater hardware capacity of powerful client computers— Ideal for batch execution and high-demand users—execute high demand

processes on local computers, so that network performance is unaffected• Two- and Three-tier mixed environment

— Takes advantage of a mix of different hardware throughout the company, using each computer's capacity to its full extent

— Ideal for companies with mixed user needs (some heavy, some light needs)

CLUSTER TECHNOLOGY

• Automatically balance users between servers in the cluster• Increase redundancy and capacity, simply by adding extra AOS servers. • If one server fails, clients only have to reconnect to continue working,

reducing downtime

REMOTE S ITE AND USER SUPPORT

• Remote sites and users can use AOS to connect to a central or headquarters Microsoft Axapta solution through a WAN, without the need for any additional software

WEB DEPLOYMENT

• Install, update, configure or launch Microsoft Axapta by the touch of a button• An ActiveX® component on a Web page shows the status of the local installation

Benefit statement:

Microsoft AOS technology supports the scalability of Microsoft Axapta. AOS serverscan help companies enhance and utilize the flexibility, performance, redundancy,and connectivity of their Microsoft Axapta solution.

Key Questions:

• Can you add users to your solution without system downtime?• Do you want your company's subsidiary offices to be able to connect to your

solution at low cost?

Prerequisite(s): Axapta Object Server "Add-On" users, and additional servers

Microsoft Axapta Commerce Gateway

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) between businesses depends on the ability ofsoftware applications to communicate with each other electronically. MicrosoftAxapta Commerce Gateway is a business-to-business (B2B) solution that opens upMicrosoft Axapta to the electronic exchange of trading documents with othersystems over the Internet or WANs, even if they use different standards, formatsand protocols.

MICROSOFT AXAPTA COMMERCE GATEWAY

• Flexible options for setting up rules that govern electronic communications with your business partners

• Exchange documents instantly and automatically, based on a set schedule or an event

• Integrate your business processes with your business partners' processes. For example, your purchasing department can send purchase orders to your vendors' sales department automatically using the Internet

MICROSOFT B IZTALK CAPABIL IT IES

• With Microsoft BizTalk Server, you can set up content-based routing, which sends electronic documents to the correct recipients based on the context of each document

• With Microsoft BizTalk Server, digital certificates can be attached to electronic documents, to verify the authenticity of the documents

• Send BizTalk Purchase Order• Receive BizTalk Sales Order• Send BizTalk Sales Invoice

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Commerce Gateway helps you pursue new opportunities forbusiness-to-business collaboration. You can reduce communications andadministration costs, increase the speed of your supply chain and communicatewith any of your business partners, no matter what business applications they use.

Key Question:

• Are you losing business opportunities because you don't have a way to trade electronic documents with partners that require it?

• Are your employees spending too much time processing business documents that you receive from your partners, such as purchase orders?

Prerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5,Microsoft Axapta Trade, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 or Microsoft BizTalk Server2002, Microsoft SQL Server.

Note that Microsoft Axapta Commerce Gateway can function without MicrosoftBizTalk Server, but this will limit your ability to receive documents, and sendingdocuments will not be possible. Microsoft SQL Server and Windows 2000 arerequired for Microsoft BizTalk Server to function.

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Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Framework

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal lets the customers, vendors, business partnersand employees of a company directly access relevant business information andconduct business transactions with Microsoft Axapta through personalized, role-based Web portals over the Internet.

ENTERPRISE PORTAL PL ATFORM

• Simple, browser-based user interface and intuitive controls help employees understand and use Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal with little or no training

• Supports intranet for internal employees, extranet for business-to-customer or business-to-business communication, and online communities

• Delivers Microsoft Axapta business data and business logic in real-time• Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal functionality can be developed using the

standard MorphX development environment, no extra Web tools are necessary• Rapid deployment using Web-site wizard• The multiple language and currency functionality of Microsoft Axapta is also

available to remote users through Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal— Every user can customize their Web portal to display their own language

• A data crawler automatically builds a searchable full-text index, so users can run back office data searches

• Access Microsoft Exchange information without the need for plug-ins or ActiveX— Remote users can access information from Microsoft Outlook while on the road— Incorporate content from information sources, other back office and front office

systems using Web Parts and XML

ROLE AND PERMISSION MANAGEMENT

• Every user can personalize their Web portal to display the controls, functionality and information they need to do their job

• Administrators use roles to personalize the structure, information and functionality of Web portals, so users will see only the information and functionality designed for them (see Enterprise Portal Roles below)

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

• Flexible definition of content management topics• Online editing and publishing of articles• Proofreading and moderation support• Attach documents

Benefit statement:

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise portal literally opens your business to your customers,vendors, employees and other business partners 24 hours a day, every day. Remoteusers can access your business through an easy-to-use Web portal to get theinformation and functionality they need. With Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal,you can increase the speed of doing business while driving down costs.

Key Question:

• Can your customers, business partners and remote employees access your business whenever they need to?

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Lservices over the Internet. The role is connected to other areas of functionality inMicrosoft Axapta, including the Microsoft Axapta Sales and Marketing modules andMicrosoft Axapta Supply Chain Management. Information such as productavailability is automatically generated and will always be up-to-date when customersview the site. CUSTOMER ROLE

• Sign up as a customer• Look in the product catalogue• Answer a survey or respond to a campaign survey• View your account, purchase orders and invoicesPrerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework, Logistics, and one COM client

Vendor Role: The vendor role lets you exchange item-specific documents, purchasesand shipping data with your vendor. Exchanging data on a shared Web site cutsdown on phone calls, faxes and emails, as well as manual errors due to multipledata entry. The Vendor role helps you optimize your supply chain without anexpensive technology upgrade. Your vendors can access your business informationconveniently, using only a standard Web browser. VENDOR ROLE

• View and change company-specific information• Vendors can change existing contact persons and create new ones• Vendors can view and edit each purchase order with your company• Vendors can view details about all the items they deliver to your company,

and can add external descriptions and external item numbers• View details of selected journals• The vendors can update line prices• Vendors can see a list of open receipts (items that they have not delivered

on time)• A supply performance function shows how vendor performs with on-time delivery,

average days late, backorder status, and average lead timePrerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework, Trade Agreements, and one COMclient

Consultant Role: The consultant role simplifies and streamlines the registration ofhourly costs for projects in Microsoft Axapta. Consultants, external partners andremote project-basis employees can log their working hours over the Internet.Registration is simple and direct, and consultants can choose between flexible timeregistration options to match the type of project they're working on. CONSULTANT ROLE

• Timesheet registration on projects• Access anytime, anywhere, through a browser and Internet connection• Invoiced transactions and invoice proposals• Transactions for hours, costs, revenue, item and on-accounts • Hour statements for projects• Customers, projects and inventory base dataPrerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework, Project I, and one COM client

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Roles and Functionalities

Roles allow administrators to easily tailor user interfaces and access rights todifferent employees, based on the role they serve in the company. With roles, eachworker can see and access only the information and functionality they need to dotheir job. The following preconfigured roles may be licensed for Microsoft AxaptaEnterprise Portal.

• Sales Representative role• Employee role • Consultant role• Customer role• Vendor role

Each of these roles begins with a standard set of functionality appropriate to therole. They can also be personalized to match the specific needs of the users. Otherroles can be developed and customized according to your specific business needs.Besides adding roles, you can expand the functionality of Microsoft AxaptaEnterprise Portal by adding certain functionalities which expose the capabilities ofsome modules inside the solution over the Internet. See below for details.

Employee Role: The employee role connects Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portalusers, including remote users, to employee information that helps them do their job.Users in different time zones can access their personalized information over theInternet whenever they need to-not only during business hours. EMPLOYEE ROLE

• View a phone book• View a department list Prerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework, and one COM client

Sales Representative Role: The sales representative role connects sales teams to thebusiness information they need over the Internet, regardless of the time or theirlocation. Sitting at their desks, at home or on the road, sales reps can easilyaccess, view and update customer and company information stored in MicrosoftAxapta. The sales office can be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at lowcost. SALES REPRESENTAT IVE ROLE

• View and maintain your business relations and contact persons.• Create quotations • Create sales orders• Perform price queries• View various reports like pricelist, pricelist per customer, sales by customer,

region, sales this week, and morePrerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework, Trade Agreements, Logistics, Project I(optional), and one COM client

Customer Role: The customer role in Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal helpscompanies connect and interact with their customers using the Web. Use the toolsin this role to rapidly implement e-commerce websites, for selling your products and

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L• View and create contact person • Create and view Sales and Marketing quotations based on updated price,

availability, configuration, or other data• Perform price queries for your Sales and Marketing quotations Prerequisite(s): Sales Representative Role and Sales Force Automation

Product Builder for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal: By launching the functionality ofMicrosoft Axapta Product Builder over a Web site, you make it easy for yourcustomers to create their own products from home or the office via the Internet.After selecting the desired values for the product, the customer or vendor clicks'OK', and is then presented with options such as price calculation or adjustment ofconfiguration details. Customers and vendors can submit multiple orders, monitorthe production status or view an expected date of delivery all over the Web.PRODUCT BUILDER FOR MICROSOFT AXAPTA ENTERPRISE PORTAL

• Lets your customer configure products over the Internet, using your pre-selected product models

• Available as an add-on to the Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Customer Role. • The Product Builder in Enterprise Portal uses the same user-dialog as when

configuring the item via the sales order line from the Windows client of Microsoft Axapta

Prerequisite(s): Customer Role and Product Builder I

Performance Management for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal: This module lets youview output from the Microsoft Axapta Balanced Scorecard module. Users can viewtheir performance through different perspectives, by drilling down to specific KPIs.They can also get a graphical output of performance for easy visualization. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MICROSOFT AXAPTA ENTERPRISE PORTAL

• Users can view their performance related to past KPIs and their progress towards current KPIs

• View strategic plans linked to KPIs• Make online calculations of performance data, for example to look at average

performance over time• Use online visual cockpits to concentrate performance information to a specific

management groupPrerequisite(s): Employee Role and Balanced Scorecard

Questionnaire for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal: With this module, you can select aquestionnaire you designed in Microsoft Axapta Questionnaire I, and deploy it on aWeb page over the Internet. Whether reaching out to customers, vendors,employees or other business partners, all participants only need a Web browserand Internet connection to view and respond to your questionnaire. QUEST IONNAIRE FOR MICROSOFT AXAPTA ENTERPRISE PORTAL

• Deploy questionnaires easily, over corporate intranets, and external Web sites• Respondents can answer surveys over the Internet, and view their own answers

and evaluations afterwards• Administrators can view completed questionnaires over the Internet, and drill

down to specific responsesPrerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework and Questionnaire I

Human Resource Management for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal: Human ResourceManagement functionality for the Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal can connectyour employees and Human Resource department in a virtual online community.Whether they sit down the hall or in a different department, subsidiary or country,employees can easily view and update personal information stored by your HumanResource department, and managers can maintain employee records remotely.Empowering employees with responsibility over their own data saves time and effortfor your Human Resource professionals. Users in different time zones can accesstheir personalized information over the Internet whenever they need to-not onlyduring business hours. ACCESS TO EMPLOYEE SERVICES

• View line, matrix and project organization, and position information• Users can view and maintain their own personal information • View and create emergency contactsACCESS TO MANAGER FUNCTIONS

• View and update personal information on your team membersADDIT IONAL CAPABIL IT IES WITH MICROSOFT AXAPTA

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT I AND I I

• Manage development plans, appraisal interviews and courses• View reports like, absence status list, overdue loaned items, course lists,

and skill gap reports.Prerequisite(s): Employee Role, Human Resource Management I, Human ResourceManagement II and Human Resource Management III (Human ResourceManagement II and III optional)

Customer Resource Management for Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal: CustomerResource Management for Enterprise Portal gives you the power to view, create,and edit business relations and contact person records associated with businessrelations. You can also make sales quotations-not only for existing customers, butfor leads and prospects as well. SALES AND MARKETING FOR MICROSOFT AXAPTA ENTERPRISE PORTAL

• View and create all types of business relations and their contact persons • Sort business relations based upon type

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Microsoft Axapta registers concurrent users. It is important to understand thatconcurrent user licenses are different than named user licenses.

All Microsoft Axapta users are created in the system by name. But when customerslicense a certain number of concurrent users, the solution only tracks how manyusers are accessing the system at the same time. That means that a 500-userlicense for Microsoft Axapta can support any number of users, as long as no morethan 500 are accessing the solution at any given moment.

A concurrent user license structure is different than the named user licensestructure that some other business applications use. The named user licensestructure makes customers pay for every user that works with the system, no matterhow often they log in or how long they use system resources.

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Microsoft Axapta Windows Users

Microsoft Axapta Windows users are usually "power users" who spend all or most oftheir time working with Microsoft Axapta. These users can access complexMicrosoft Axapta functionality through a Microsoft Windows client, while alsoaccessing other Microsoft Windows applications, such as Microsoft Office orMicrosoft Outlook. Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook functionality can actuallybe embedded in Microsoft Axapta user interface screens as well.

Whether your employees are accessing Microsoft Axapta through a thin or richclient, they will see the same interface and will have access to the samefunctionality. See the Microsoft Axapta Application Object Server (AOS) section formore information on two-tier and three-tier architecture, and thin and rich clienttechnology.


Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Web Users

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Web Users can be thought of as "casual" users.These users access Microsoft Axapta through a Web browser for occasional workwith the solution. They are given a customizable, user-centric and task-orientedinterface that delivers only the functionality required by their role, and most tasksare accomplished using wizards. Because of the Web browser interface, these userscan utilize Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal to access the solution at any time,from anywhere in the world.

It is common for a company to license a number of Microsoft Axapta Windowsusers, who work with the system often, and also a number of Microsoft AxaptaEnterprise Portal Web users, who can work inside or outside the company groundsand who access the solution less frequently.See Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal Roles for more information about MicrosoftAxapta Enterprise Portal Web Users.

Key Question:

• Do you have employees that need to work with Microsoft Axapta from remote locations, where they may only have access to a Web browser?

• Do all your employees need to access all Microsoft Axapta functionality all the time, or does it make more sense to deliver a limited subset of functionality to casual users based on their role?

Prerequisite(s): Enterprise Portal Framework

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Microsoft Axapta can be implemented with any of the languages in the below list.The first language is free, as part of the Microsoft Axapta Base Package. MicrosoftAxapta allows two options for dealing with additional languages. The first option isto license additional languages, and the second is to install but not licenseadditional languages.

By licensing additional languages, each user on the system is given the option ofpresenting the Microsoft Axapta user interface, the online help, forms, reports andmenus in any of the licensed languages. Licensed languages can also be used inprinted reports, invoices, purchase and sales orders and other business documents,and by remote users in Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal interfaces.

By merely installing additional languages at no license cost, users can view andprint reports in any of the installed languages, but the user interface must bechosen from the list of languages which have been licensed.

Note that even more languages than these may be available from VARs or MicrosoftCertified Business Solutions Partners.

Benefit statement:

By licensing additional languages, you can spread the power of Microsoft Axaptaout internationally, to subsidiary offices in other language zones, and also tocustomers, vendors and other business partners who speak different languages.

Key Questions:

• Can you support users that prefer to use different languages in their daily job?• Can you print and send business documents to customers and business partners

in any of their preferred languages?

Available Languages

Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .daDutch (standard) . . . . . . . . . . . .nlDutch (Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . .nl-beEnglish (US) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .en-usEnglish (UK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .en-gbEnglish (Australia) . . . . . . . . . . .en-auEnglish (Ireland) . . . . . . . . . . . .en-ieEnglish (South Africa) . . . . . . . .en-zaFinnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fiFrench (standard) . . . . . . . . . . .frFrench (Belgium) . . . . . . . . . . . .fr-beFrench (Switzerland) . . . . . . . . .fr-chGerman (standard) . . . . . . . . . .deGerman (Austria) . . . . . . . . . . . .de-atIcelandic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .is

Italian (standard) . . . . . . . . . . .itItalian (Switzerland) . . . . . . . . .it-chNorwegian (Bokman) . . . . . . . .noPortuguese (standard) . . . . . . .ptSpanish (Spain-modern) . . . . . .esSwedish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .svThai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .thCzech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .czEstonian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .eeHungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .huLatvian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .lvLithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ltPolish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ptRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ruTurkish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .tr

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Microsoft Axapta MorphX Development Suite for Microsoft Windows

MorphX® is an Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, because it integratesseveral different functions such as designing, editing, compiling and debuggingwithin one common environment. The Microsoft Axapta MorphX Development Suitefor Microsoft Windows includes editors for the Microsoft Axapta client of MicrosoftWindows, so system administrators can add new functionality and modify existingfunctionality quickly and with limited coding. Licensing the MorphX developmentsuite for Microsoft Windows gives you the power to create, modify and deleteObjects, which are the building blocks of the Microsoft Axapta application. Objectsin Microsoft Axapta are stored in the Application Object Tree (AOT).

You need the MorphX development suite for Microsoft Windows in order to runmodifications to Microsoft Axapta or vertical add-on solutions that require objectslisted in the MorphX Objects section below. An exception to this rule would be if youlicense the VAR or BUS Layer Runtimes described below. However, the MorphXdevelopment suite for Microsoft Windows gives you the flexibility to modify yourcustomized functionality whenever you need to.

Note that a technical description of each of the tools and Objects listed is beyondthe scope of this document. For more information, refer to the appropriate technicaldocumentation or ask your Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner for moreinformation.

MORPHX DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (WINDOWS CL IENT)

• The following tools are available in the Microsoft Axapta Base Package, but you need to license the MorphX development suite for Microsoft Windows in order to use them to modify your solution:— Table browser— Visual MorphXplorer— Code profiler— Application Hierarchy Tree— Cross references

• The following tools are only available if you license the MorphX development suite for Microsoft Windows:— ActiveX explorer— Import/export objects— Upgrade framework— Merging functionality— Label system

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SMicrosoft Axapta MorphX Development Suite for Web

With the Microsoft Axapta MorphX Development Suite for Web, developers cancreate Web applications based on online data and the same business logic that isin the ordinary Microsoft Windows interface of Microsoft Axapta. You can developMicrosoft Axapta Web applications for different devices, including browsers, mobileand handheld devices. A Web site wizard helps you deploy your Web applicationseasily.

MORPHX DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (WEB)

• Drag and drop Microsoft Axapta elements from the AOT to Web projects• A built-in Web page editor can support static as well as dynamic content from the

Microsoft Axapta AOT

MULT IPLE INFORMATION SOURCES

• Support for Web parts. This enables content and functionality from a wide range of sources to be embedded in user Web pages, for example Microsoft Outlook, MSN® Business News, and much more

Benefit statement:

The MorphX Development Suite for Web expands the reach of your Microsoft Axaptasolution, by developing applications that your employees, customers and businesspartners can access anywhere, using a normal Web browser, or mobile andhandheld devices. The Web development tools are all based on the same principlesand concepts as the MorphX Development Suite for Windows, so developers alreadyfamiliar with MorphX can easily begin developing Web applications for MicrosoftAxapta.

Key Question:

• Can you develop and deploy customized applications over the Web to your company's Microsoft Axapta users, which deliver content and functionality from your Microsoft Axapta solution or from other sources?

Prerequisite(s): MorphX Development Suite for Microsoft Windows

MORPHX OBJECTS

• Objects are the most basic components of Microsoft Axapta functionality. Each Object is an entity that performs one or several functions within Microsoft Axapta

• MorphX provides additional Objects with which to modify and extend the functionality in your Microsoft Axapta solution

• Objects can be created, modified and deleted with the MorphX development tools• The objects provided by MorphX can be found below:

— Tables — Maps— Views— Extended Data Types— Base Enums— Feature Keys— License Codes— Configuraton Keys— Security Keys— Table Collections— Macros— Forms— Reports— Queries— Jobs— Menus— Menu Items— Online Help

Benefit statement:

MorphX provides a user-friendly development environment for partners andcustomers, which can help speed up the development process duringimplementation and result in a lower implementation cost for the solution. Thepower, flexibility and ease of use of MorphX can also decrease the time and costsassociated with upgrading and modifying the solution to keep pace with yourgrowing business needs as your company expands. Furthermore, you can modifyand extend Microsoft Axapta with greater confidence, because the layered structureof the solution keeps modifications separate from the core solution itself. You canrevert to an earlier state in your upgrade process if you need to, without affectingthe core solution.

Key Question:

• Do you want to use an integrated business application that you can upgrade and modify with confidence?


Note that if you prefer to have system adjustments or new developments made toyour installation on-site or locally, you may need to license the Microsoft AxaptaMorphX Suite for Microsoft Windows, MorphX Development Suite for Web, and X++.

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SBUS Layer Runtime

Chosen partners that participate in the Microsoft Axapta add-on program candevelop customized vertical or horizontal solutions or modules that use the BUSlayer. If you want to implement such a BUS layer solution, you can choose to licenseonly the BUS layer runtime needed to execute the partner-developed solution,without licensing the entire MorphX development suite. This saves some expense,but the BUS layer runtime without the MorphX development suite will not allow youto make additional modifications to the partner-developed solution.

Key Question:

• Do you want to license a Microsoft Business Solutions-approved add-on module, without using X++, MorphX and Web development for future customizations?


VAR Layer Runtime

Any partner can develop customized vertical or horizontal solutions or modules forMicrosoft Axapta that use the VAR layer. If you want to implement a VAR layersolution, you can choose to license only the VAR layer runtime needed to executethe partner-developed solution, without licensing the entire MorphX developmentsuite. This saves some expense, but the VAR layer runtime without the MorphXdevelopment suite will not allow you to make additional modifications to thepartner-developed solution.

Key Question:

• Do you want to use a partner-developed custom solution, without using X++, MorphX and Web development for future customizations?

X++ Source Code

The X++ Editor lets developers create, view, modify and delete the X++ classes thatcontain Microsoft Axapta application source code. Methods can be copied from oneelement to another simply by using the drag-and-drop function. If developers needto create custom code, Microsoft Axapta offers different functions to simplify theirjobs and provide information about their options. The X++ source code has built-in runtime access for the VAR and BUS layer, andtheir associated VAP and BUP patch layers in Microsoft Axapta (Patch layers areadditional application layers for handling patches, minor updates, service packs,hot fixes and additional functionality). If the customer licenses X++, there is noneed to license the BUS and VAR Layer Runtimes described below.

X++ SOURCE CODE

• Create, modify and delete X++ classes• Validate and monitor the functionality of your code with an integral X++ debugger

Benefit statement:

With access to the X++ source code, you can customize and extend the capabilitiesof Microsoft Axapta to meet your exact business needs. The X++ Editor in MicrosoftAxapta can reduce the time and costs involved with making system modifications,customizations and upgrades. The X++ Editor also enforces certain methods ofwriting code and developing system customizations. This can result in better code,fewer errors and lower TCO.

Key Question:

• Do you have specific or unique business processes, need to be supported by a customized business solution?

• Are your current business applications too difficult and expensive to customize or upgrade, because of obsolescent coding languages or development tools?

Prerequisite(s): MorphX Development Suite for Microsoft Windows

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