© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 1 Planning your AX 7 journey : Upgrade and Beyond Mohammed Naveen Ajmal

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 2 Session Topics  Key Roles  What's New in AX7?  Deprecated Features  Skills  Upgrade/Migration Scenarios  Upgrade / Migration – Key Considerations  Approach

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 3 Key Roles DeveloperMicrosoftIT Admin VAR / Partner Business Users

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 4 What’s New in AX7?  Lifecycle Services  Mandated collaboration workspace  New toolset for cloud operations  New Platform Stack  Modern Browser Client  Cloud Infrastructure on Azure  New developer toolset  X++ a native.Net Language  Modern Visualizations (Client, BI, KPI Dashboards)  New extension design patterns  Collaboration  Security  Support & Servicing workflow { Data Entities } BizTalk Services In-Memory Models

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 5 Models, Packages, Integration  Models  Packages  Customizations  Overlayering  Extensions  Integration  oData Services  Data Entities  DIEF  SSRS & Power BI reporting

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 6 Deprecated Features  Enterprise portal  AIF services  AxD integrations  X++ reports  Morphx Development environment  AX Rich Client

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 7 Support & Servicing VAR / Partner Microsoft LCS AX7 Managed Application Support Application diagnostics, monitoring & troubleshooting L1, L2, L3 Application Support Service SLA’s Application packaging (CR & Application Hotfixes) support for deployments MS Hotfix and Service Pack validation and support Dev, Test and Staging Instance management Build management Escalation, Triage issues with Microsoft and support through closure Release Management Microsoft Core Application monitoring Platform monitoring (AX / Azure) Environment provisioning & deployment Elastic scale up and down Application package deployment MS Hotfix and Service pack deployment Lifecycle Services Diagnostics Portal Support workflow management Issue Search Package Deployment

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 8 Skills  Primary skill set: X++  Operational skill set: Visual Studio.  Secondary skill sets: LCS, C#, JavaScript, HTML5, Odata  Power BI, SSRS, Cortana Analytics Suite  Azure Cloud Infrastructure and Services  Lifecycle Services

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 9 Upgrade/Migration Scenarios  AX 2009 or earlier versions  AX 2012 R3 to AX7  AX7 to latest release

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 10 Upgrade / Migration – Key Considerations  Process changes viz. standard features in AX 7  UI changes in AX 7 vis-à-vis AX earlier versions  Application Platform Stack  Metadata, API and Schema Changes  Deployment Landscape  Security  Data Sanity and Volumes  Data Scope  Setup & Configurations  Master Data  Transactions  Integrations  Test Scenarios (Business Process and Data Validation)  Change Management & Rollouts

© Sonata Software Ltd, Confidential. 11 Upgrade and Beyond  Cortana Analytics Suite  Retrospective Analytics  Real Time Analytics  Predictive Analytics  Intelligent SAAS Apps  Power Apps  Cloud Optimizations

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