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Microsoft
Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 (Multisite example)
Developed by	Microsoft Corporation
Latest release	5.0.593.0 (2009) / 2008-06-02
OS	Windows Server 2003/2008 (AOS), Microsoft Windows (Clients)[1]
Platform	x86
Available in	Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch (Belgium), French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish[2]
Development status	Active
Type	Enterprise resource planning
License	MS-EULA
Website	http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax/default.mspx

Microsoft Dynamics AX is one of Microsoft's enterprise resource planning software products. It
is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family.

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 MDCC 2 Versions 2.1 Damgaard 2.1.1 Axapta 1.0 - March 1998 2.1.2 Axapta 1.5 - November 1998 2.1.3 Axapta 2.0 - July 1999 2.1.4 Axapta 2.1 - January 2000 2.2 Navision-Damgaard 2.2.1 Axapta 2.5 - December 2000 2.2.2 Axapta 2.5 Market Pack - October 2001 2.3 Microsoft (current) 2.3.1 Axapta 3.0 - October 2002 2.3.2 Dynamics AX 4.0 - March 2006 2.3.3 Dynamics AX 2009 - June 2008 2.3.4 Dynamics AX 2011 - Summer 2010 3 Features (modules) 3.1 Traditional core (since Axapta 2.5) 3.2 Extended core 3.3 External components 4 Architecture 5 MorphX and X++ 5.1 Code samples 5.2 Future 6 Presence on the World Wide Web 7 External links 8 References

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History

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 in the summer
of 2002.^[3] Before the merger,
Axapta was initially released in March, 1998 in the Danish and U.S. markets. Today, it is available and
supported in forty-five languages in most of the world.

Custom AX development and modification is done with its own IDE, MorphX, that contains various tools such as
a debugger, code analyzer, and query
interface. This development environment resides in the same client
application that a normal day-to-day user would access, thus allowing
development to take place on any instance of the client. The development
language used in Axapta is X++.

On May 26, 2008, Microsoft completed developing the latest version (2009) in
facilities spanning the globe and including sites in Vedbæk, Denmark; Kiev, Ukraine; Fargo, North Dakota, United States; and Redmond, Washington, United States,Karachi , Pakistan.

The history becomes apparent in the mixed concepts in design and programming
and in the rudimentary documentation which has been removed to a large extent
(which was deemed better than providing it with contradictions or wrong
information).

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MDCC

MDCC or Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen was once the primary
development center for Dynamics AX.^[4] For a long
time, the development of several key components of AX has been moving to other
sites like Redmond and Fargo. MDCC is located in Vedbæk and also houses Microsoft
Dynamics NAV and several other Microsoft Dynamics family products. MDCC
employs about 900 people of around 40 different nationalities, with current
hiring focus oriented towards Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Ukraine and Romania.

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Versions

The early versions (from 1.0 to 3.0) were called Axapta, while the later
versions (from 3.0 SP6 to AX 2009) are called Dynamics AX.^[5]

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Damgaard

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.

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Axapta 1.0 - March 1998

The first version of Axapta was released in the US and in Denmark in March
1998 by Danish company Damgaard A/S. Like all following versions, it supported
both Microsoft
SQL Server and Oracle database servers. Notable features were
financial, trade, inventory management, logistics and production.

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Axapta 1.5 - November 1998

The second major version of Axapta was released in Norway, Sweden, Germany,
UK, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain
and the European Union
in November 1998.

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Axapta 2.0 - July 1999

The third major version of Axapta was released to customers in July 1999.
Notable new features were the Project Accounting module, Warehouse Management
(WMS), External OLAP,
Option Pack concept, ActiveX support, COM-connector
and an early release of the Axapta Object Server which allowed offloading of
some operations from the clients onto a separate server.

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Axapta 2.1 - January 2000

This release stemmed from market demands from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
and Spain. It was the fourth major version of Axapta and was released in January
2000. The most notable new feature was the addition of a Web tool called the
Customer Self-Service (CSS) which is the precursor to today's Enterprise
Portal.

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Navision-Damgaard

Following the merger of the two Danish companies Navision and Damgaard,
Axapta was to be known as Navision Damgaard Axapta for versions 2.5 and 3.0 (up
until 3.0 SP5).

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Axapta 2.5 - December 2000

As the fifth major release, Axapta 2.5 brought with it a complete web
applications development environment, the Project module, Banking and OLAP. It was released first
to Denmark, Austria and United Kingdom in
December 2000.

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Axapta 2.5 Market Pack - October 2001

This market pack was released for Axapta 2.5 in October 2001 in France and
Italy. This new application layer contained the Customer Relationship
Management module (CRM or Marketing Automation), Commerce Gateway and
Product Builder (both Client-side and CSS-side (Web)).

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Microsoft (current)

Microsoft acquired Navision Damgaard during the summer of 2002. Navision
Damgaard Axapta was first renamed to Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta, then
to Microsoft Dynamics AX for versions 3.0 SP6, 4.0 and 2009.

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Axapta 3.0 - October 2002

The sixth major Axapta release brought with it the Microsoft Axapta
Enterprise Portal, new intercompany collaboration functionality, actualized and
rebuilt user security and system configuration, expanded geographical reach
(more countries), demand planning and enhanced partner productivity tools.

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Dynamics AX 4.0 - March 2006

The seventh major Axapta release brought with it an updated look and feel. As
the first version that Microsoft was involved in from the beginning it attempted
to integrate better with existing Microsoft technologies. For example, the AOS
became a true Windows service, a .Net business connector was provided, CLR
Interoperability was introduced and XML data
exchanges were supported through a set of code classes (Application Integration
Framework), full Unicode support was
introduced^[6] and a new Service
Management module.

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Dynamics AX 2009 - June 2008

Originally named AX 4.1, later renamed to AX 5.0 (and finally AX 2009), the
eighth major release of Axapta brings with it yet more improvements to the UI.
This new version adds role-based concepts to both the Enterprise Portal and
windows clients, support for timezones (utc), a new Site inventory dimension,
and Enterprise Portal development through Visual Studio projects.^[7]

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Dynamics AX 2011 - Summer 2010

Sometimes dubbed AX 6, it is said to include additional improvements to the
user interface and
application enhancements focused on specific industries like Retail, Media &
Entertainment, and Public
sector.

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Features (modules)

Microsoft Dynamics AX contains 19 core modules^[8] :

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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

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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]

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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)

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Architecture

The Microsoft Dynamics AX software is composed of four (4) major
components:

• The Database Server, a database
  that stores the Microsoft Dynamics AX data
• The File Server, a folder containing the Microsoft Dynamics AX application
  files
• The Application Object Server(s) (AOS), a service that controls all aspects of Microsoft
  Dynamics AX's operation
• The Client(s), the actual user interface into
  Microsoft Dynamics AX

See also the book Inside Microsoft
Dynamics AX 4.0^[10]

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MorphX and X++

MorphX is an integrated development
environment in Microsoft Dynamics AX that
allows developers to graphically design data types, base enumerations, tables, queries, forms, menus and reports.
MorphX supports drag-and-drop and is very intuitive. It also
allows access to any application classes that are available in the application,
by launching the X++ code editor.

Because MorphX uses referencing to link objects together, changes in, for
example, datatypes of fieldnames will automatically be reflected in all places
where they are used (such as forms or reports). Furthermore, changes made
through MorphX will be reflected in the application immediately after
compilation.

Microsoft Dynamics AX also offers support for
version control systems (VCS) integrated with the IDE, allowing collaboration
in development. There is also a tool for reverse-engineering table structures
and class structures to Visio. The actual implementation limits the practical use
of both these features.

X++ itself is the programming language behind MorphX, and belongs to the
curly brackets and .-operator class of programming languages (like C# or Java). It is an object-oriented
class-based single dispatch language. X++ is a derivative of C++ (both lack the finally keyword for example)
to which garbage collection and language integrated SQL queries were added.

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Code samples

X++ integrates SQL queries into standard Java-style code. Following are three
equivalent examples (result-wise), though the first one has generally better
performance. Samples #2 and #3 hint at an object-like behavior from table
buffers.

Sample #1

/// <summary>
/// This job is used as an X++ sample
/// </summary>
public static void xppTest1(Args _args)
{
    UserInfo userInfo;
    ;
 
    update_recordset userInfo
        setting enable = NoYes::No
        where userInfo.id != 'Admin'
            && userInfo.enable;
}

Sample #2

/// <summary>
/// This job is used as an X++ sample
/// </summary>
public static void xppTest2(Args _args)
{
    UserInfo userInfo;
    ;
 
    ttsbegin;
 
    while select forupdate userInfo
        where userInfo.id != 'Admin'
            && userInfo.enable
    {
        userInfo.enable = NoYes::No;
        userInfo.update();
    }
 
    ttscommit;
}

Sample #3

/// <summary>
/// This job is used as an X++ sample
/// </summary>
public static void xppTest3(Args _args)
{
    UserInfo userInfo;
    ;
 
    select forupdate userInfo
       where userInfo.id != 'Admin';
            && userInfo.enable;
 
    ttsbegin;
 
    while (userInfo)
    {
        userInfo.enable = NoYes::No;
        userInfo.update();
 
        next userInfo;
    }
 
    ttscommit;
}

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Future

The LINQ library was
first used in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 for out-of-the-box SSRS reporting. It is expected
that Visual Studio and the LINQ library will be used more extensively in
future versions of AX.

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Presence on the World Wide Web

One of the most notable sources of information with regards to Axapta (prior
to the Microsoft purchase) was technet.navision.com, a newsgroup which grew to a
considerable number of members and posts up until 2002. Following the
incorporation of Axapta into Microsoft's Business Solution suite, the
newsgroup's content was transferred over to the Microsoft Business Solutions
newsgroup^[11]. The oldest
technet post that can be found today dates back to August 2000.^[12] During the Axapta
3.0 era, this newsgroup in conjunction with secured official Microsoft websites
(Partnersource for Microsoft Partners and Axapta resellers and Customersource
for licensed Axapta customers) accounted for most of the official documentation
sources on Axapta. During this time freely accessible documentation remained
scarce. Following Microsoft's release of Dynamics AX 4.0, Axapta's presence on
the World Wide Web greatly improved through heightened interest from
professional blogs as well as a continually improving presence on MSDN. Though MSDN contained
mostly placeholders immediately following the release, it now contains a wealth
of information from a complete SDK to white papers and code samples.

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External links

• Microsoft
  Dynamics AX Official Website
• Microsoft Dynamics AX on MSDN
  • Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
  • Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0
  • Best
    Practices for Microsoft Dynamics AX Development
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Community Information
• Axaptapedia

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References

1. ^ "Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 system requirements" Microsoft
   website
2. ^ "Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 product availability" Microsoft
   website
3. ^ "Microsoft Corporation acquires
   Navision (2002)" Damgaard website
4. ^ "Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen" Microsoft
   website
5. ^ "A brief history of DAX" Arijit Basu blog
6. ^ "What's new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0" Microsoft MSDN
7. ^ "What's new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009" Microsoft
   MSDN
8. ^ "Microsoft Dynamics AX Business Ready Licensing editions"
   Microsoft website
9. ^ "Payroll Management - Microsoft Dynamics AX" Microsoft
   website
10. ^ Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0
11. ^ "Microsoft Dynamics AX Community" Microsoft website
12. ^ "26.1 Any input to the benchmarking tool in Damgaard Axapta??"
    Microsoft Business Solutions newsgroup home

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