1. How do I compare the two And how do I choose
AX7 vs AX2012 R3
How do I compare the two
And how do I choose
Thomas Bonde Ejby
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2. Short about me Who am I ? Worked with Dynamics AX since 1998
Solution Microsoft R&D
SQL DBA & AX MCP
TOGAF, ITIL & C-EH Certified
GxP Certified
Dynamics AX MVP
Currently contracting various implementations around the world
Areas of interest ?
System Integration
System Design & Architecture
Technical Infrastructure Implementation
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Been with AX for a thousand years
Started out as developer, consultant, focusing on integration interfaces, and data migration
Focusing currently on Technical infrastructure design and implementation, using the techniques acquired during 100+ implementation of AX, and also the
Skills learned in TOGAF, ITEL, and C-EH
2014 started my own company ad independent contractor working on various installation
Currently running a users implementation in Singapore
users implementation in Denmark

3. Todays competitors Key take away: Am I an AX 7 user as of Feb 2016 ?
When, why and to what should I upgrade ?
Can I use some of the new techniques against my existing AX2012 ?
Put the decision in you hand, not mine !
Vs.
Today we will talk about AX7 compared to AX2012 R3
I will try to give you a understanding of what’s new I AX, not only where high level, but give you some concrete examples of what is needed for AX7
Hopefully the key takeaways will be for you
To understand if you currently as an AX7 potential
Also to understand the effort and gains upgrading from your current application
Understand the some of the new buzz word also is eligible for AX2012
But mainly to give you an understanding, so that you can make your own decision

4. Total Cloud-First Modernization
The New Microsoft Dynamics AX
(Azure BizTalk Services)
Dynamics Integrator
AX MorphX Dev Tools
Visual Studio 2015 IDE
Tools
Active Directory
Azure AD
Identity
SQL Server 2014
SSAS
SSRS
Azure SQL
(w/Operational Analytics)
Power BI
Azure Blob
DocDB
Data
WIN32 Rich Client
SharePoint Enterprise Portal
Modern App
HTML5
Windows
Universal App
(w/EMS MAM)
iOS
Android
Client
Windows Server
MOM Pack
AX App
Azure Compute
Telemetry Enabled AX
Workspaces
App Suite
App Foundation
App Platform
Application
ODataV4
Dynamics Life Cycle Services

5. Page Hierarchy DASHBOARD WORKSPACE LISTS PERIODIC SETUP OTHER FORMS
15,000 ft
WORKSPACE
100 ft
LISTS
5,000 ft
0 ft
RUNBASE
PERIODIC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SIMPLE LIST & DETAILS
SETUP
OTHER FORMS
50 ft
JOURNALS &
INQUIRIES
TASK PAGE
JOURNAL LINES & INQUIRIES
50 ft
DETAILS &
TRANSACTIONS
0 ft
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SIMPLE LIST & DETAILS
SETUP
PERIODIC

6. DEMO AX7 Show and talk about general menu, navigation etc
Open Ledger Journal and show the entry
Show the Excel experience for this
Show the Task Recorder, on general Journal
Execute a report
Show Search

7. Ohhhhh - DATA DATASOURCE TRANSFORMATION TRANSPORTATION PRESENTATION
AGGREGATION
Bottom line, this are the 3 things to consider
SOURCE, endless list of sources, show PowerBI list
FLAT FILES
DATABASES
IMAGES
PROVIDER
Direct SQL
ODATA
SERVICES
PRESENTER
EXCEL AX
WEB HTML
POWER SOMTHING

8. AX2012 ANALYTICS (ROLE CENTERS + CUBES)
AX2012 BI capabilities are “great - but hard to implement”
Barriers to implementing AX2012 BI
How AX7 bridges these gaps
Complexity of deployments (Cubes, SharePoint...)
Cubes need customizations to be useful
Light integration with AX stack – requires specialist skills
Lack of “real time insights” limits scenarios
One DB for analytical and operational workloads with SQL-NCCI (No SharePoint, SSAS..)
Scenario focused aggregate models and Power BI content packs
In-memory real-time Aggregate data is a first class citizen in data access stack
Problem no the Problem
Several factors have contributed to this adoption gap:
SSAS, Sharepoint and other components required to deploy Role centers and Cubes are complex. Specialist skills required to deploy and maintain BI infrastructure is lacking in our eco-system
Pre-built Cubes, most of which were conceived in AX2009 (with improvements in AX2012), are complex and bloated. Customers and partners who deploy pre-built cubes have to make major surgery before they can be adopted. As a result, most partners and ISVs have resorted to building their own Cubes
Platform deficiencies such as poor integration with AX data stack as well as lack of incremental processing adds additional strain on IT administrators. As a result, the few customers who have adopted cubes, refresh them only on a nightly basis (in some cases, weekly basis) – thereby perpetuating the late Analytics problem
Investments in PowerBI, SQL Server vNext as well as our own investments in the new data access stack and aggregate measurements presents us with a unique opportunity overcome these barriers
SQL Azure (as well as boxed versions of SQL server) will support Operational (OLTP) as well as Analytical workloads (OLAP) using the in-memory, non-clustered column store indexes (NCCI). SQL server will have the ability to route Analytical (read-only) workloads to a read-only secondary copy of the database with minimal interference to operational queries. This architecture (which is enabled at the database layer underneath us) greatly reduces complexity and eliminates the need to transform and cache the data in another database (ie. Cubes in SSAS) for analytical processes. Elimination of SSAS and the resulting simplicity has a significant COGS reduction for our customers.
AX2012 Perspectives have evolved into AX7 Aggregate Measurements. Once modeled, they can be consumed via Aggregate Data Entities (ADE) or via X++ code. Aggregate measurements and extensions to X++ programming model enables a developer to model KPIs and Charts without having to learn OLAP concepts or domain specific languages such as MDX.
PowerBI (offered as a stand-alone version as well as an option in Office365) enables an end user to explore data and share insights with his/her peers. PowerBI content packs (ie. Pre-built dashboards, reports and underlying data models) can be authored using AX OData endpoints exposed by Data entities (including ADEs). Once authored, it will be possible to pin PowerBI visuals into AX workspaces.

9. DEMO ODATA My name is PowerPappi
Work with your data from various data source
ODATA is not only for AX7

10. MORE WAYS to interact with your data