Dynamics AX Blog by Sandeep Chaudhury

One of the most awaited releases of Dynamics 365 For Finance and Operations is now available (The July 2017 and Platform Update 8). Lot of new capabilities and exciting new features across all the functional modules and quite a few technology stack improvements!!In this post, I will highlight some o...

Starting with the Update 3 release of Dynamics 365 For Finance and Operations (I will refer this as D365FO from here on), Microsoft introduced the concept of “Mobile Workspaces” for D365FO. This works across all major mobile platforms, i.e. Android, iOS and Windows. The idea behind the m...

In some of my earlier posts , I discussed about the various capabilities of the Project resource management feature of Dynamics 365 For Operations and how it can help Professional Services firms manage their project resources, to ensure optimum resource utilization, and drive better project profitabi...

Hello, Good to be back here on the blog !!! Jumping straight into topic here today about a new addition of a feature for vendor prepayments in relation with fixed price project revenue recognition !! Issuing large amounts of prepayments to vendors is often a common business requirement for large sca...

Dynamics 365 For Operations is a cloud based SaaS service, which provides rich features and functionalities to manage simple to complex business processes across all major industry verticals, such as Manufacturing, Professional Services, Financial Services, Retail, Distribution and more. It provides...

Having a fully functional vendor self service portal in an enterprise class cloud ERP solution is a huge advantage and allows your organization to streamline the collaboration with vendors, there by helping you reduce back office efforts and improves accuracy of business transactions with vendors an...

Exciting times are here for Dynamics customers, prospects and enthusiasts !! The mobile app for Dynamics 365 For Operations is now available for download and use in the Android platform. You can download it from Google play store today. Just search with keyword Dynamics 365 and you should see the ap...

Hey Folks, I know most of us are probably gearing up for the AXUG summit next week and are eager to get the first look at Microsoft Dynamics 365 on OCT 11, at 11.30 AM PST. Dynamics 365 is the new Cloud ERP, CRM, Marketing and Business Apps Bundle from Microsoft. Check out this new blog page dedicat...

The Personalization options has been a very widely used feature, which is powerful and has always allowed users to personalize various screens based on what they would like the screens to look like. You can learn more on the Personalization options in the New Dynamics AX on my earlier post . While th...

“Can I enter my time and expenses on the go, when I am at an airport, or in a flight” ? “Can I do my daily tasks of work while I am on the go “? “Can I inquire the status of a sales order and take some basic action on it, or even add a new customer contact when I am mee...

In AX 2012 release, the Excel Add-in feature introduced additional productivity options and made it easy for end users to interact with Dynamics AX data from within Excel. This feature worked great in many scenarios, but it did not provide that seamless productivity experience for the user, as they ...

Traditionally, the 2 primary methods of revenue recognition for a fixed price project were the “Completed Percentage” and the “Completed Contract” methods. I have explained how these work in Dynamics AX for revenue recognition of fixed price projects in my earlier posts. With...

Social media today (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yammer and more) are probably the most important as well as primary source, for one to stay up to date on news , information, updates on what is happening the professional world. Viewing and managing these social media feeds and social media intellige...

The Update 2 (August 2016) release for the New Dynamics AX is going to be available for download in LCS soon. Meanwhile checkout what is new in this release at the URL below and learn how you can benefit from these enhancements. https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/whats-new-or-changed-in-dynamics-a...

If you have worked enough on the New Dynamics AX , you must be well aware of the new Workspaces feature by now. The workspaces are basically an aggregation of several business tasks, insights, reporting and dashboards that a business user deals with on a typical work day. These workspaces comes in r...