19-20 November, 2008 | Copenhagen

Sri Srinivasan GPM, AX Performance Microsoft Corporation AX10

●Problem Statement ●Core Archiving Requirements ●Archiving Roadmap ●Design Tenets ●Architecture ●Preview Demo

High Data Growth Rate Large Database Size Manageability

●Database Layout Intelligence ●Business Usage Intelligence ●Intelligent Alerting ●Automatic Configurability of Business Objects ●Master Data Synchronization Capability ●Ability to Purge ●Ability to Archive with Financial Year as starting point ●Ability to Offline an Unused Company ●Ability to restore data* ●Extensive Scheduling Capabilities ●Extensive Audit trails for Purge and Archive

High growth identification tools Intelligent Identifier where Purge is required Provide comprehensive Purge Utilities Base Archive Framework in place Data Size Reduction – 10-30% Data Growth Reduction – 10% to 25% V1 Optimization & Purge Q1 CY 09 Archiving Framework Reference Data Sync Framework Time Frequency based Archive Object Copy Framework Intelligent Archive Analyzer Top 10 Core Entities to have Archive Templates View Capability for Archived objects thru SSRS Viewer Upgrade Support for Archive Database Data Size Reduction – 40-60% Fixed Database Size (outside of OOS tables) V2 Archiving (Q3 CY2009) AX vNext – Integrate into the product All Transactional Entities to have inbuilt archiving Restore Capability (AX 2009 and UP) Render Archive and online data on same client V3 - Render in AX Client (vNext)

Automatic Analysis of High Growth Areas Usage Patterns Analyzed Business Process Recommendations for enhanced Data Management Database Optimization Assistant Data Analysis Identify and clean areas where data can be completely removed Module Based Script Model Dashboard view to manage Purge Entity Alerts to monitor and manage Purge Entity Purge Archive Database will have same schema as Online Database Archive Database comprises of Reference Data and Inactive Data Reference Data Sync Capability Frequency Based Transaction Data Sync Model Support Upgrade of Archive Database Online Database to hold maximum of 3 years transactional data Archive

AX Online Database Archive Database AX Archive Framework AX Data Growth Analyzer AX Data Growth Analyzer AX Business Connector COM /.Net AX Business Connector COM /.Net AOS AX Object Server AOS AX Object Server Ax Purge Manager Ax Archive Manager Ax Archive View thru SSRS Phase I Phase II

Empty Database Reference Active Inactive Reference Inactive AX Archive Service Active Database Archive Database Replicate Reference Data Move Inactive Data from Active to Archive Active

Transaction in Closed Financial Year Closed AND Any Additional Criteria Settled Sales Orders in Closed Financial Year Invoiced AND Cust Invoice Journals showing Posting Not Project Controlled Paid for Example: Sales Orders

2008*2008* *2009* *2010* FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010

Identify High Growth Areas Large Table Analysis Partition Opportunity Analysis Usage Patterns Analyzed Unused Index Analysis Identify Purge Opportunities Streamline cleanup of parm tables Analyze Cancelled/Draft Execution Data Provide Log/Trace/Old Benchmark Cleanup Opportunities Identify Business Process Optimizations BOM/Production Recalculation Frequency/ Inventory Close Draft Run Management/ Log Management Quotation Cleanup Model/ Pictorial view of Batch/Alert use and cleanup opportunities

Sri Srinivasan GPM, AX Performance

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