Category: AX

5 Pain Management Solutions Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are costly to implement, with an average total cost of ownership around $4.5 million, according to Panorama Consulting. ERP's break-even point ranges from one year to over five, with 35 percent of companies reaching this point by three years. These solutions are designed for long life cycles for profitability, but changes in technology infrastructure over the past decade create an environment where legacy systems hinder your productivity. The Aberdeen Group found the average ERP system is seven years old. These legacy systems can put a heavy weight on a company, and even more modern customized solutions are moving into the legacy category as cloud-based solutions gain ground. You can't eliminate the pain caused by moving from a legacy ERP solution to…

I onboarded the AX7 technical conference this week with the impression that AX7 was ‘just’ a new UI exposing AX2012R3CU9 code on a new platform with some adjustments to ‘make it work’ on the new Azure platform. But already after the first keynote I felt embarrassed about my initial thoughts which quickly made place for respect and amaze for this enormous leap in technology. I can only compare the way Dynamics AX has developed in the last 10 years with a boxing game: initially, the boxers tease and challenge each other by some quick targeted moves. But the game really takes off when one of them finds his ‘punch’ (say with the release of AX2012) The opponent is driven towards the corner of the boxing arena and receives punch after…