Dynamics Tech Conference 2015 PART 1

Dynamics R3 CU8 Retail warehouse Built-in modules for warehouse efficiency License plating

Dynamics R3 CU8 Retail warehouse Inefficient picking cost are huge

Dynamics R3 CU8 Retail warehouse Cluster and Batch picking

Dynamics R3 CU8 Retail warehouse PRE-PACKING

DYNAMICS AX ROAD MAP (projection) AX 7 drops AX 7 minor release FALL 2015 SPRING 2016 FALL 2016

SRI and friends showing the AX 7 “LOOK”

Dynamics Tech Conference 2015 PART 2

Topics Dynamics for Retail AX Performance tuning/Best Practices Azure/Lifecycle Services

Dynamics for Retail overview Focus on delivering immersive customer interactions Omni-channel retail and commerce: Store POS, eCommerce (web storefront and marketplaces), Search, Social and Mobile commerce

Preview of storefront/POS look

AX performance tips – User Interface CPU clock speed matters (not just for servers!) 1.9Ghz opens Order form in 8 seconds 3.3Ghz took 2.5 seconds Display methods on grid controls slows UI response considerably Avoid using them if possible, otherwise at least cache them (cacheAddMethod on Init) Limit “expensive” queries on forms Don’t write business logic on UI elements Minimize # of controls on a form Use passive or inner/outer joins on form datasources

AX performance tips – Coding/Database Use set-based operations Record by record VS a single SQL statement for all rows Keep Database logging to a absolute minimum When this is on, set-based operations downgraded to row-based Overhead Fill in CacheLookup property on tables Do not have user interaction on server-side methods Ex. Insert/Update/Delete Limit new field creations on existing tables Avoid cross-tier code (mixing client/server-side calls)

AX performance tips – Coding/Database Avoid continuous number sequences Use field lists in queries when you don’t need ALL fields Nested while selects can be replaced with joins Indexes Always define cluster index and primary key Do not use columns that are subject to updates Consider the size of the cluster index key

AX Performance Tools/Blogs Tools Dynamics Performance Analyzer (DynPerf) Lifecycle Services – System Diagnostics SQL Server Profiler Blogs AX Performance Team - X++ Issues -

Azure IaaS and Lifecycle Services MS is committed to Azure cloud services as they move forward. Cloud services experiencing 5X faster growth than that of the whole IT industry Projected worldwide public IT cloud services revenue in 2017: $108B $47.4B in 2013 In respect to Dyanmics AX IaaS, they offer two hosting models: (see right)

Azure IaaS Considerations Windows Azure Subscription Base Subscription is limited to 20 cores. XL VM is 8 cores (two demo systems max) VPN Connectivity Setup Windows Azure VPN requires knowledge of corporate network Licenses Software Assurance for Volume Licensing required Data center Select closest Regional datacenter Data Import Large datasets will take time to copy over VPN. May want to use Azure Import/Export services Application Configuration You will still need to setup and configure the AX Application to fit your needs Cost controls Pause and stop resources not in use Corporate Domain AX in Azure will have a separate management domain that needs to trust your corporate domain

Lifecycle Services LCS is the specific part of Azure that is used to manage your AX cloud infrastructure. Beyond managing AX deployments, it also provides very useful tools such as: Customization Analysis Tool – Issue Search System Diagnostics – Upgrade Analysis – AX 4.0+ Most of these tools can be utilized by on-prem infrastructures as well as cloud Blogs Azure team - LCS Engineering team -