Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Updated: June 1, 2008
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is a comprehensive business management solution for mid-sized and larger organizations that works like and with familiar Microsoft software to help your people improve productivity. Microsoft Dynamics AX is built to make it easy to do business across locations and countries by consolidating and standardizing processes, providing visibility across your organization, and help in simplifying compliance. With Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can be confident your business management solution is, and will continue to be, relevant to the needs of your people and the demands of your industry and business.




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Help people work fast and smart
In the volatile world of business, individual productivity and effectiveness has a direct impact on your bottom line. Give people familiar, easy-to-use tools that enable them to work quickly and make smart, proactive decisions.
| • | Free people to focus on business—rather than on learning new applications—with a solution that looks and feels like a familiar Microsoft user experience. |
| • | Work effectively with an intuitive, RoleTailored user interface and Role Centers that help employees organize, prioritize, and access tasks and information from within a single window. |
| • | Expand the reach of decision-making with ad-hoc, self-service business intelligence and reporting tools that help people analyze data through dashboard KPIs, Microsoft Office Excel, Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. |
| • | Enable people to work smoothly with Microsoft Dynamics AX data without leaving their Microsoft Office applications. |
| • | Build strong connections with employees, customers, and partners using integrated, unified communication and collaboration tools. |

A familiar user interface makes Microsoft Dynamics AX easy to use, and Role Centers help people prioritize their work and gain insight into relevant information.
Be a world-class contender
Today, business opportunity can mean enlarging your customer base to include a worldwide audience or expanding across borders into new sites or branch offices. Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to manage the complexities of a global organization by consolidating and standardizing processes and providing visibility across your organization.
| • | Expand easily across international borders with country- and region-specific functionality, including capabilities for multiple languages and currencies and compliance with local financial requirements for more than 36 countries/regions. |
| • | Consolidate financial, operational, and customer data while preserving local information to build your strategic edge and personalized customer, partner, and supplier relationships. |
| • | Unify standards and help ensure quality by centralizing processes, sharing best practices, and extending supply chain management across multiple sites and divisions. |
| • | Manage and monitor global and local performance with sophisticated yet straightforward reporting and analysis tools. Combine your solution with Microsoft Business Intelligence applications to enhance the analytic capabilities critical to managing a complex business environment. |
| • | Give people access to real-time KPIs, scorecards, and data through Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX. And with PerformancePoint Server or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, key decision-makers can work with critical information without logging in to Microsoft Dynamics AX. |
| • | Help ensure efficient, consistent deployments with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, a standardized, global methodology and suite of tools that simplifies implementation and upgrade processes. |
Simplify Compliance
Companies face myriad regulatory requirements that vary widely across regions and countries. Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you reduce risk and liability associated with corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and customer initiatives.
| • | Save time and effort with workflows that enforce and enhance controls based on specific risk and compliance scenarios. |
| • | Help ensure consistency with standardized, repeatable processes that can reliably aggregate compliance data. |
| • | Turn challenge into opportunity by supporting customer initiatives—including "green" and RFID supply chain strategies—with capabilities that reduce manufacturing waste and promote environmental sustainability. |
| • | Centralize and share corporate governance and compliance activities with the Compliance Center, a built-in tool for managing policies, process documents, and reports. |
| • | Keep a tight grip on compliance activities with business intelligence tools that monitor internal changes, so you can respond quickly to requests for specific information. |
| • | Reduce the cost and uncertainty of protecting corporate compliance data. Take advantage of the powerful security features built into Microsoft Dynamics AX and other Microsoft products in your corporate IT infrastructure. |
Next Steps
To find out how Microsoft Dynamics AX can meet your specific needs, contact your local Microsoft Certified Partner. Need help finding a partner? Contact us.