Dynamics ERP Two-Tier Connector for SAP

I recall in one of my previous implementation we used these bunch of AIF and custom web services to communicate between Dynamics AX and SAP.

This comes as a good news as Microsoft announced a new connector that accelerates two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployments between Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP Business Suite. This new connector enables IT organizations to use Microsoft Dynamics AX across subsidiaries, divisions or branch entities to facilitate cost-effective business process integration and easily connect with SAP installations at the corporate headquarters location.

The Microsoft Dynamics ERP two-tier connector will enable common business process integration scenarios for headquarters and subsidiary locations, including the following:

• Financial consolidation. The sharing and consolidation of detailed financial information from subsidiaries using Microsoft Dynamics AX can be automated and exposed through a central SAP installation, increasing visibility of financial performance across the organization.

• Intercompany supply-chain integration. The integration of intercompany procurement and supply-chain processes between local and regional distribution with centralized fulfillment organizations helps facilitate automated order processing.


• Plant automation. Integration of decentralized manufacturing operation processes into centrally orchestrated planning processes enables more accurate and responsive manufacturing planning across the organization.
Integration can easily be customized by using Microsoft BizTalk Server to provide sample mappings for electronic data interchange and detailed technical documentation.

Read more here http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/may10/05-17MSTwoTierERPPR.mspx

Dont miss this! Free Webinar on Developing Mobile applications with Visual Studio .Net and Dynamics AX

Thanks to Lars Jankowski, Director of ERP2.mobile for hosting a free webinar on development of mobile applications for Dynamics ERP. Dont miss this one if you are a Dynamics AX Mobile Developer fan! :-)

Webinar "ERP2mobile Hands-on using SDK delivered with source code" Thursday 3 June 13:00 – 14:30 CET. Sign up at: www.ERP2mobile.com


In this tech webinar we show how to develop mobile business applications for Dynamics using ERP2mobile inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Experience how easy it is to develop high performing applications for Windows Mobile devices.



Learn how to:

- Quickly configure an application only using XML.

- Customize a basic application (SDK) for a customer.

- Add your own services and activities.




Get access to coding examples and SDKs with source code, latest downloads, tutorials, developer forums etc.



Sign up for the webinar at www.erp2mobile.com or www.ax2mobile.com.

A Big Thank You!!

http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/Numbers-51-through-60.php

Dear All,

Today, I got this email in my inbox from one of my Linked In Friends, Vinay (Thanks to Vinay for bringing to my notice), as from last couple of months, I was not following http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/.  I was totally caught by surprise seeing the mail that my name was in the "Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential Top 100" List. It's a great honour to be in this list with some of the big names in Dynamics ERP. I'm glad to know that my blog and my participation in community discussions, forums have helped many people out there, who have voted me in top 100 list. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the people whom I have worked with and also my other fellow bloggers who kept me inspiring to keep posting,

A special thanks to Brandon George (http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/), who himself has a great blog and I have been a fan of him, has always inspired me and pushed me to keep on posting. (when I was lagging behind on my posts in early 2010 as I was super busy in my new project)

Concluding with A big thank you to all of you and I would love to be on the blog roll for years to come. I welcome any suggestions/recommendations to improve my blog.

Happy DAXing...

Your's sincerely,
Dilip

Spotlight: ERP2Mobile.com - Dynamics AX Mobile Solutions

I always had this passion for building and using enterprise mobile applications and I thought I would take some time to highlight about a company who specialises in Mobile Development in AX

Here comes, ERP2Mobile.com (aka AX2Mobile.com) an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) whose focus is to develop enterprise mobility applications with Dynamics AX and other ERP.

Sometime back, I had this opportunity to attend this demo on Time and Materials Management Mobile solution which allows the end user to record project expenses from the mobile device and it integrates with Project module in Dynamics AX, The best part of the solution was the UX (User Experience) and the ease in which you can navigate through the Mobile Device UI, Unlike typical mobile applications, here the buttons on the device are built keeping in mind to capture the inputs in an easy manner.

The Platform

ERP2Mobile Development Platform is an environment for developing or customizing mobile business applications for Windows mobile devices that connects to web-services or ERP-systems like Dynamics AX or SAP

It uses Visual Studio for building ERP apps .

ERP2Mobile can also guide and can provide a migration path for partners using Dynamics Mobile


For more detailed inputs, you can visit http://www.erp2mobile.com/ or http://www.ax2mobile.com/

XSLT Transformation

For one of my integration with AX and an external system, I had to write a nested xslt using for-each to transform one of my xml and this link proved to me a boon in helping me achieve it.

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=43129