Microsoft Dynamics AX for Mergers and Acquisitions

To keep pace with the competition, companies still need to extend into new territories, launch new products and services, and increase business strengths through mergers and acquisitions. With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2011 services, you can successfully manage growth and change by building profitable supply chain relationships and quickly adapting internal processes to meet changing demands.

According to research firm, Gartner the strengths of Microsoft Dynamics AX in purview of mergers and acquisitions are:

• The role-tailored UI and the Microsoft Office look-and-feel with user-friendly and familiar interface make training and adoption by end users easy.

• The scalability of Microsoft Dynamics AX was improved in the last releases, so several hundred users and multiple legal entities can now be supported in one central instance.

• Within the latest release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, prepackaged BI functionality is included, specifically offering BI components, prebuilt BI cubes and BI reports. One can combine one’s solution with Microsoft Business Intelligence applications to enhance the analytic capabilities critical to managing a complex business environment.

• Microsoft has extensive certification programs for this product's partners in place, and encourages partners to use the Sure Step methodology.

• One can get access to real-time KPIs, scorecards, and data through Enterprise Portal in MS Dynamics AX. With the help of Microsoft Office 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.

• Dynamics AX is easy to customize, and offers high flexibility for adapting to process changes and enhancements.

• Helps consolidation of financial, operational, and customer data while preserving local information to build one’s strategic edge and personalized customer, partner, and supplier relationships.

• AX helps to unify standards and help ensure quality by centralizing processes, sharing best practices, and extending supply chain management across multiple sites and divisions.

• Implementation time for the Axapta is very less in certain cases due to its BRL (Business Ready Licensing) capabilities which require minimal customization for those in finance, trading & logistics.

With the latest entrant in the Microsoft Dynamics AX versions, Dynamics AX 6 boasts of an improved UI design, new enhancements specifically for some domains along with better workflow models.