microsoft dynamics AX – standard features
choose from two editions for the features you need
Depending on your specific requirements, you can choose from two editions of pre-selected (packaged) software functionality available for Microsoft Dynamics AX, as well as additional, add-on components. When you select an edition, you license the number of users you need to utilize the components. If you need functionality in addition to what’s included in the edition you choose, you have the flexibility to add selected components.
Business Essentials Edition
Role Centers
Microsoft Dynamics AX and the Enterprise Portal Framework provide RoleTailored access to data, reports, alerts and common tasks. You can personalize your Role Center to monitor and prioritize tasks based on business needs. Tasks are presented visually as document cues that provide information about the workload associated with each activity.
Unified Communications
Use presence information to collaborate easily with coworkers, business partners, vendors and customers whose data is maintained in your ERP system. Communicate by sending e-mail or starting an instant message or phone conversation from within Microsoft Dynamics AX.
User Interface
Quickly find what you need with simple navigation based on the familiar, intuitive interface of the Microsoft Office system.
Flexible Workflow
Use Window Workflow Foundation to create business rules and custom workflows - or use templates - to automate business processes.
Country-Specific Functionality
Expand functionality to help you comply with country-specific regulations.
Multi-Site Capabilities
Use the site inventory dimension across the system to support multi-site scenarios. Streamline multi-site management with the ability to define different costs, prices and cost category rates; set default financial dimensions for sales orders; control delivery dates in different time zones; and run master planning to view bills of material (BOM) items and route data by site dimension.
Business Intelligence
Select predefined performance indicators based on roles and monitor critical business processes in a dashboard view - all from within the Role Center. Ease report generation with predefined RoleTailored data cubes. Use predefined cubes to formulate effective business strategy, monitor performance and analyze results across your entire organization. Spot trends and opportunities faster by generating ad-hoc and analytical reports and then share and modify data by exporting to Microsoft Office Visio and Excel, with the ability to use PivotTable views.
Financial Management
Preauthorize credit card payments for sales orders. Use three-way matching for vendor invoices to invoice a purchase order by packing slip, save an invoice prior to posting, and enter miscellaneous charge codes that were not on the original purchase order.
Advanced Management Edition
All the Business Essentials plus:
Compliance Management
Easily track and manage compliance status, documents, reports and activities using Compliance Center. Define and enforce process and data controls with business rules and workflow engines that route events based on specific risk and compliance scenarios. Document critical business processes and controls with the integrated Task Recorder. Obtain approval information for user-defined complance controls and processes electronically by using electronic signatures.
Quality Management
Improve business processes for quality assurance, quality control, raw materials and lot traceability.
Web-Based Expense Management
Create per diem rules, define approval workflows, import credit card transactions and handle personal expenses.
Purchase Requisitions
Streamline procurement with an end-to-end process that includes requests for proposals (RFPs), vendor comparison and selection and integrated purchase processes.
Customer Relationship Management
Improved lead and opportunity management includes the ability to create, review, update and manage information about leads. Associate responsibilities, employees and campaign data with stored information. Maintain and centralize contact information across your organization using the Global Address Book.
Advanced Financial Support
Any company in the enterprise can print a statement for any customer and the enterprise can create a single, consolidated statement for multiple companies. Define allocation rules to distribute posted amounts to destination accounts or dimensions at any time.
Additional Components
Extended Language Support
Enhanced support includes the Arabic language and character set. Read forms using the bi-directional user interface.
Human Resource Management
Integrate employee information between human resources and payroll systems. Facilitate pay-for-performance with various compensation and incentive plans.
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