Top 10 Reasons to BuyMicrosoft Dynamics AX 2012Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 is a single, powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for enterprises.

It is simple to learn and use, and delivers value faster by supporting industry-specificand operational business processes across your global enterprise. With this highly adaptable andeasy-to-scale solution, you can quickly take advantage of new business opportunities, reduce risk, and differentiate your business to meet new requirements.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 drives user involvement and innovation, unlocking greater productivity and providing immediate insight through a RoleTailored user experience and easy access to relevant information and processes.

Powerfully Simple

1. Achieve Fast Time to Value

With prebuilt industry capabilities for manufacturing, distribution, services, retail,and Public Sector, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 helps you meet your businessrequirements by deploying your solution quickly and delivering results right away.Streamline your organization end-to-end with rich ERP capabilities, including humancapital management, financials, and compliance management. Support specificbusiness requirements easily with packaged solutions from the worldwide Microsoft®Partner Network.

2. Grow Your Global Solution

Removing barriers to international growth is essential for business development. MicrosoftDynamics AX 2012 enables you to expand your operations to new geographies with built-in, country-specific localizations in a single solution to meet regulatory requirementsfor 36 countries.1 Enable entities across your multisite, global organization to share thesame data, business rules, and processes in order to harmonize and streamline businesspractices. Also support your business growth by easily adding users and transactions, as well asconfiguring more complex business scenarios.

3. Work Smart and Fast

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 can help you improve productivity by providingRoleTailored access to information, tasks, and business processes along with powerfulbusiness intelligence. Gain deeper insight into critical business data across your organizationwith relevant performance indicators, self-service business intelligence, and reporting inkey business areas.

4. Drive New Business

Take advantage of new business opportunities by improving the insightinto your business, and having the ability to implement change more easily. MicrosoftDynamics AX 2012 offers unlimited views on your business, giving you the visibilityyou need. Enhanced modeling capabilities, such as the Organizational Model orworkflow, then helps you manage changes in the structure and business processesof your organization, and fosters innovation with a central business processrepository, including capabilities for five major industries.

5. Support Business Today and Tomorrow

Choose a flexible deployment model that best supports your organization and caneasily be adjusted to meet your changing business demands: on-premises or in thecloud. Easily complement your installation with cloud-based services and takeadvantage of the flexible Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 solution architecture that enablesincremental implementations, changes, or upgrades. Choose the governance modelthat best fits your organization: centrally managed, decentrally managed, or acombination of both.

6. Gain a Competitive Edge

Differentiate your business from competition. The ability to rapidly adapt your system tosupport your unique needs can give you a significant edge over your competitors. Themodel-driven, layered architecture allows you to develop and maintain unique businessprocesses easily and enables a relatively easy upgrade to new releases.

7. Get Everyone on Board

Employees want to use a solution with a familiar and intuitive user experience thatmakes their jobs easier, and is simple to use and learn. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012enables people to find, sort, visualize, and use information through an easy-to-use userinterface that looks and works like Microsoft Office. Work easily with everyday tools bysharing data between Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Office 2010.

8. Connect and CollaborateEasily connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners through integratedself-service collaboration capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables you tostreamline basic supply chain collaboration with self-service, Microsoft SharePoint®–based vendor, customer, and employee portals, and end-to-end business processintegration through Sites Services. To Simplify advanced supply chain collaborationwith adaptable web services and share information easily by using collaboration tools such as Microsoft LyncTM and by creating SharePoint collaboration sites directly from within Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

9. Lower Your TCO

In addition to improved productivity gains, lower your total cost of ownership (TCO)through simplified life cycle management and quick installations. Use Microsoft DynamicsERP RapidStart Services to help ensure a quick and reliable setup and configurationof your ERP solution. In alignment with the RoleTailored design of Microsoft Dynamics AX2012, the simplified Business Value Licensing model ensures that you buy the exact numberof licenses you need—no more, no less—with options to easily add more licenses as yourbusiness grows.

10. Leverage the Power of the Microsoft Platform

It’s our fundamental value proposition: The interaction of ERP, business and productivityapplications, communications solutions, and the underlying technology platform—thatworks on-premises or in the cloud. We call it pervasive interoperability. With MicrosoftDynamics AX 2102, you get a business solution from Microsoft that is backed by an ongoingcommitment to research, development, and innovation. Combined with a globalecosystem of specialized partners, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 uses the power of theMicrosoft platform to deliver a powerfully simple solution.

What's New in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009?

For more than 8 years, at least 10,000 organizations around the world have been relying on Microsoft Dynamics AX to help them drive their business forward and realize business success. And now, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 empowers organizations even more with one of the most innovative and exciting releases to date.Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 has been specifically designed to give organizations a powerful way to stay competitive. Included in this release are enhancements and innovations that will help organizations to:1. Empower their people to work faster and smarter2. Manage growth and change3. Comply with regulations and trading partner initiatives4. Compete in a global market place

Work Faster and Smarter

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 empowers people with many new tools and features to help them manage their work and tasks effectively to find, use, and share information and thereby drive greater insight.

New Role Centers Empower Employees and Increase Productivity

One of these exciting new features is the Role Center – a customizable home page that displays specific data, reports, alerts, and common tasks associated with a user's role in the organization. The user profile – a set of default information for a specific role in an organization, such as Chief Financial Officer or Accounting Manager– determines the content that is displayed on Role Center pages. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 has more than 30 Role Centers and users can access their specific Role Center from the Microsoft Dynamics AX client or from an Enterprise Portal Web site. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 empowers employees by helping them to find, visualize, and understand key data with RoleTailored reports, analytical views, pre-defined analysis cubes, and integrated analysis and forecasting tools. It’s now possible to customize reports more easily with a self-service tool that helps the user organize, visualize, and share the precise information needed.

Role Center Screenshot in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009Easy Collaboration with Unified Communication

Tight integration between Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft SharePoint Server and Unified Communication boosts productivity by enabling employees to collaborate more efficiently from within familiar Microsoft Office programs. These improvements help companies work faster and more effectively.

Manage Growth and Change Successfully

Today, more than ever, companies need a solution to help them address aggressive growth objectives and constantly changing market dynamics while remaining competitive. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 includes many new features and enhancements that help companies create, adapt, extend and streamline their business processes for a competitive advantage.

Create Individual Workflows for Increased Efficiencies

One of these features is Microsoft Dynamics AX Workflow. The Workflow System in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 helps companies manage their processes in a more consistent way, improve visibility into processes and enable users to work from a centralized work list. For example, the Workflow system allows managers to define the approval process for specific documents, such as purchase requisitions and expense reports. By using the Workflow system, managers help to ensure that documents are processed and approved in a consistent and efficient manner.

Strengthen the Community between Customers and Partners

Companies are constantly looking for ways to build more profitable relationships across their organization, with their customers and their business partners. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 provides new ways for companies to stay competitive by building more profitable supply chain partnerships, collaborating in a more efficient way across the organization and quickly adapting internal processes to meet changing demands from customers and business partners. Here’s how:• Flexible service-oriented architecture helps companies capitalize on new opportunities quickly• Multi-site capabilities enable companies to collaborate more effectively across the supply chain• The ability to create ad-hoc work-flows increases organizational agility and makes it easier for them to respond quickly to new or changing demands and opportunities

Compete in a Global Market Place

Companies need to continuously streamline operations in order to compete in a global market place. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 helps organizations work smarter and faster by reducing business complexity and increasing visibility into processes. Microsoft Dynamics AX provides the following improvements:• Improve transparency into the supply chain by using RFID-technology• Tight integration with Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management• Centralize processes supporting shared services• Integrated Web-based expense management• Improved Financial Management processes such as support automated back-end allocations, three-way matching for Accounts Payable and credit card processing.

Comply with Regulations and Trading Partner Initiatives

In a global market, companies face increased challenges in addressing the issues andcomplexities of complying with local and regional regulations and trading partnerinitiatives. How efficiently companies deal with compliance issues can mean thedifference between success and failure.

Reduce the Total Cost of Compliance

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 helps companies comply with regulations and partner initiatives in a cost-efficient way. New enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 make it possible to:• Define and enforce controls with business rules and workflow based on a risk or compliance scenario.• Comply with complex national and international financial regulations• Support Compliance enforcement by deploying the out-of-the-box Compliance Center with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Leverage the Power of Microsoft

We have made significant investments in leveraging the power of other Microsoft products to help partners and customers realize real productivity gains – without breaking their IT budgets. Here are just a few of these investments:• Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation – This integration in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 enables customer and partners to build workflows from inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and pre-configure workflows in different domains.• Microsoft SQL 2008 – Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 takes advantage of all the new enhancements in Microsoft SQL 2008 for improved performance and stronger Business Intelligence capabilities• Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) – With tight integration to EPM, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 customers who are looking for project management capabilities will be able to align work and people with business priorities more easily to effectively manage work from ad-hoc projects to complex programs.• Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC&C) and ComplianceCenter in Microsoft SharePoint Server – This integration provides Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 customers with powerful tools for collaborating and communicating while using familiar Microsoft Office programs.This is your chance to capitalize on these investments by intensifying your engagement with other business groups and grasping new opportunities together.This release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 offers both prospective and existing customers great business value. Almost all of the over 400 enhancements will be part of Business Essentials or Advanced Management. This will be very beneficial for customers on a Business Ready Enhancement Plan, and will help to highlight the real value of this plan.