View news
Date :	27 Jan 2010
Title :	What is Microsoft Axapta DYNAMIC AX
Description :	Microsoft Dynamics AX is one among Microsoft's enterprise resource designing software products. It's half of the Microsoft Dynamics family. Microsoft Dynamics AX was originally developed as Axapta in Denmark before Damgaard was merged with Navision Software A/S in 2000. The combined company, initially NavisionDamgaard, later Navision A/S, was then ultimately acquired by the Microsoft Corporation within the summer of 2002. Before the merger, Axapta was initially released in March, 1998 in the Danish and U.S. markets. Nowadays, it is out there and supported in fortyfive  languages in most of the world. Custom AX development and modification is done with its own IDE, MorphX, that contains varied tools such as a debugger, code analyzer, and query interface. This development atmosphere resides in the identical shopper application that a traditional day-to-day user would access, so permitting development to require place on any instance of the client. The development language used in Axapta is X++. On May  2008, Microsoft completed developing the latest version (2009) in facilities spanning the globe and including sites in Vedbęk, Denmark; Kiev, Ukraine; Fargo, North Dakota, United States; and Redmond, Washington, United States. MDCC or Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen was once the first development center for Dynamics AX. For a while, the event of many key parts of AX has been moving to alternative sites like Redmond and Fargo. MDCC is found in Vedbęk and conjointly houses Microsoft Dynamics NAV and many other Microsoft Dynamics family products. MDCC employs about 900 individuals of around 40 completely different nationalities, with current hiring focus oriented towards Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Ukraine and Romania. The early versions (from 1.0 to 3.0) were called Axapta, while the later versions (from 3.0 SP6 to AX 2009) are known as Dynamics AX. Development of Axapta began in 1983 at Danish company Damgaard Data A/S. The software was mainly targeted at the European market, though the North American market grew rapidly following the release of Axapta 2.1 in 2000. Microsoft Dynamics AX contains 19 core modules- Traditional core (since Axapta 2.5)     * General Ledger, composed of ledger, sales tax, currency and fixed assets features     * Bank Management, where cash is received and paid out     * Customer Relationship Management (CRM), where Business Relations (customers, vendors, and leads) are contacted and maintained     * Accounts Receivable, where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced     * Accounts Payable, where purchase orders are issued and goods received into inventory     * Inventory Management, where Inventory is valued and managed     * Master Planning, where purchase and production planning takes place     * Production, where bill of materials is defined and manufacturing is tracked     * Product Builder, where product models are created and maintained     * Human Resources, where employee information is kept     * Project Accounting, where projects are created and tracked primarily from an accounting perspective     * Basic, where data configuration is performed     * Administration Module, where system configuration is performed  Extended core The following modules are part of the core of AX 2009 (AX 5.0) and available on a per-license basis in AX 4.0 :     * Shop Floor Control     * Cost Accounting     * Questionnaire     * Balanced Scorecards     * Service Management     * Expense Management     * Payroll Management[9]     * Environmental Management[10] External components Several external components are also available:     * Enterprise Portal for Dynamics AX (built on Sharepoint Services)     * Microsoft SQL Reporting Services integration     * Application Integration Framework (Webservices + Biztalk adapter)     * A .Net Business Connector for third party software (A COM adapter is also available)     * Microsoft Dynamics Mobile 1.5 development tools