Microsoft Dynamics AX accounting software or Axapta is a complete package that has the abilities for managing a company's financial information, from middle to large size companies. It comes with many modules like General Ledger, Production, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Management, Human Resources, Cost Accounting, Bank, CRM, Service, Master Planning, Product Builder, Project, and other accounting modules. It has many features that usually will work for a company with basic needs, but for a company that requires special functions, forms and report that follow their business and processing practice, the customization will be necessary from the developers to make it happen.
AX has a development model that allows a company or a consulting company to develop on a specific layer. The layer system is a system that let a developer or user customizes a layer like cus for the Customer layer or usr for the User layer, for examples, that will make the development independent from the other layers. Certain layers are off limited to the regular companies and can only be updated from Microsoft or business partners.
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One of the tools that is very popular and useful to develop Dynamics AX customizations is the Morphx, which provides the developers with an integrated developing environment, and can be used to write x++ codes to customize forms, reports, postings, and other processes. AX also has AIF or Application Integration Framework that enables the programmers or users to integrate it with other data sources like text files, Excel, Access, xml and other file formats. If the developer is familiar with FRX and the new Management Reporter also enable the users and consultants to create sophisticated financial statements from General Ledger data, which are often needed for accounting and tax reporting purposes. The newer versions can work with Visual Studio and Sql Server Reporting, that provides even more tools to modifying forms, reports, codes, queries, tables and other objects.
Most versions and especially the newer versions of AX works with Sql Server databases, and make the developers that are familiar with Sql Server stored procedure, statements and queries work much easier with the AX database. The data accesses part of the x++ language is very similar to the standard Sql statements, that will enhance the developer capabilities to work with it. For any modules like Inventory, Production, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Management, General Ledger, Human Resources, Cost Accounting, Bank, CRM, Service, Master Planning, Product Builder, Project, and other accounting modules, the data are exposed to the developers for customizing the AX environment.
For new versions of AX, web customizations are presented and become more sophisticated. The programmers can develop applications with Visual Studio and Web Services to allow the users to access the data going through the web from their favorite browsers.
To develop on certain layers that will be available to the companies and consultants, the appropriate license will need to be purchased and installed on the computers. There are information from the Microsoft Business partner website, blogs, and information websites that are on the web, and are ready to be searched for the information about the partners, and where and how to purchase. There are consultants or companies that provide supporting work that can be searched on the search websites.
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