IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Systems Advisers Group Axapta Overview Microsoft Business Solutions - Imran Ali

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Development The AOT - Open source (apart from Kernel) IntelliMorph The MorphX IDE X++ The Layered Application Structure of Axapta Drag-and-Drop functionality

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AOT

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Intellimorph Axapta user interface Ability to perform simple modifications. Reports & Forms

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Morph X Development Suite (IDE) Develop and Customise interface Windows and Web interface Allows designing, editing, compiling and debugging

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Morph X Any user of the Axapta application can customize the Axapta application to suit their needs The standard application is never overwritten Deleting an object, deleted in the current layer only

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH X++ Object Oriented language Hybrid of Java and C++ Contains many familiar SQL commands

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH X++ void run() { AssetTable assetTable; Counter progressTotal; Counter progressCounter; startLengthyOperation(); ttsbegin; progressTotal = SysQuery::countTotal(queryRun); progressTotal, #AviFindFile); queryRun.query().dataSourceTable(TableNum(AssetTable)).update(true); while (queryRun.next()) { assetTable = queryRun.get(TableNum(AssetTable)); progressCounter++; progress.setCount(progressCounter); assetTable.barcode = assetTable.assetId; assetTable.update(); } ttscommit; endLengthyOperation(); }

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Interconnectivity

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Interconnectivity Component Object Module –Microsoft Business Connector –DCOM ODBC XML ActiveX.Net Web service OLAP SQL Reporting service

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Component Object Model Own COM object –allows to external application to connect –Business Connector Connects to external applications –e.g: Word, Excel, Outlook DCOM Axapta user required –with appropriate security rights

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COM External Example – void new(COM _com = new COM('{783CD4E4-9D54-11CF-B8EE-00608CC9A71F}')) { Object o = _com; this = o; self = _com; }

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Business Connector Microsoft Axapta Business Connector Allows other applications to connect –Enables external applications to run Axapta code Must be registered where COM code will be executed

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Business Connector Example – –Word –Excel –Outlook

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH XML Axapta has full support for XML Uses MSXML standard classes Wrapper for the COM object Does not support native XML, must code. Examples include: –SOAP –WML –SVG

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Commerce Gateway Delivery of Documents between entities Handles industry standard XML documents BizTalk –Calls a static method using COM connector

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MSMQ Reads from MSMQ folders Sends to MSMQ folders Triggers set up to login into Axapta, via COM Messages disappear when completed Axapta only commits when finished successfully

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MSMQ Example – queueInfo = new MSMQQueueInfo(); queueInfo.queueName(".\\Private$\\AxToTestQueue"); queue = queueinfo.open(#MQ_PEEK_ACCESS, #MQ_DENY_RECEIVE_SHARE); transaction = dispenser.BeginTransaction(); message = queue.receive(); message.sendInTransaction(queue, transaction);

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ODBC Connection straight to any database –by ODBC connection

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ODBC Example – loginProperty = new loginproperty(); loginProperty.setDSN("MSACCESS"); ODBCConn = new odbcconnection(loginProperty); statement = oDBCConn.createStatement(); resultSet = statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM CustomersTable"); while(resultSet.next()) { myVar = resultSet.getString(#CODE); }

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Web service Web services is a new way of packaging functionality so that it may be used by anyone, across machine boundaries. XML is pivotal for this technology. Part of Microsoft’s.NET platform. Using web services from Axapta is trivially simple.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Web Service Using Web services from Axapta is trivially simple: WebService w = new WebService( Print w.theMethod(1, ”Hello”);

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Web Service Example – PDF Retrieval –HTTP request to PDF server with Base64EncodingString in.aspx format –Web Server validates String and Streams back PDF file –ActiveX control in Axapta displays PDF document

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ActiveX Supports ActiveX controls Provides extra functionality Supports DLL –Example WinAPI

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OLAP Uses Microsoft Office PivotTable ActiveX control Cube data is available from the OLAP server through the PivotTable® Service The Microsoft Office PivotTable ActiveX is a part of the Office Web Components included in Microsoft Office 2000

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MS Reporting Services HTTP requests ActiveX Controls Returns HTTP page Read from SharePoint portal

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Integration

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Module Payroll Module is an add-on –Created by third party

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Interface Payroll system called ‘Earnie’ –CSV interface –User inter-action –Exporting: Aggregation of Timesheet lines by Pay Elements –Importing: Payslip –Axapta to calculate costs General Ledger Costs

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Interface TRENT Established Payroll system –Clients: Virgin, Northern Rock, University of Bolton £1.7 million contract with one of our Axapta clients Created interface between TRENT and Axapta

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Interface Axapta Export: –Contract Creation, Suspension, deletion at ‘Real Time’ (Projects module) Deletion & Suspension uses Web service interface –Axapta expects Yes/No reply –Exceptions BizTalk s error report to user

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Interface Axapta Import: –Timesheets 10,000 Lines per month –Payslip Axapta to run calculation costings Update timesheet lines with correct costs Create General Ledger journal –Employee data –Pay Elements (called categories in Axapta)

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Interface XML BizTalk –Split XML files per company – errors to appropriate users Axapta Business Connector User interaction –Select period, automatically sends data No Commerce Gateway Module

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Payroll Interface Projects Module Human Resources Module Axapta logs all communications between systems All errors written to Windows Event Log Exception handling when reading from MSMQ. –Axapta does not commit until process is finished. –Message is never lost –BizTalk will send again

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Security between servers –WS-Security, WS-Policy –Kerberos tickets –Encrypted SOAP messages Payroll Interface

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