January 18, 2010 in Blog by Amer

Microsoft Dynamics AX Industry Solution Event – Riyadh 17-01-2010

Today I attended the Microsoft Dynamics AX Industry Solution Event which was held in Marriott hotel in Riyadh. Microsoft Arabia MBS team was managing the show. Also five of Microsoft Dynamics AX partners in Saudi were there showing the business capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.

Mr. Emad Bakila, Microsoft Arabia MBS manager, started the event by describing Microsoft vision and strategy of Microsoft Dynamics in the market. He spoke about Microsoft Dynamics ERPs and Microsoft Dynamics AX roadmaps, high level features of Microsoft Dynamics AX, business market needs, adaptation of those needs with Microsoft Dynamics ERPs… etc.

After this partners started one by one to show features of Dynamics AX, each of them was showing one business field.

Partners and what they were speaking about is like the following:

 Finally, Housam Wafai from Microsoft Arabia, described the implementation methodology of Microsoft Dynamics ERPs: Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step. Also at the end, he was showing a 15 minutes video showing the amazing capabilities of Dynamics AX like the BI tools, communication stuff, workflow… etc. I will try to get that video and update you guys with this.

Here are some pics from sessions of today (click to enlarge):

January 18, 2010 in Blog by Amer

Dynamics AX Brains new website!

http://www.dynamicsaxbrains.com/

During the last two weeks, I was busy in reserving a domain and some conents in it for the Dynamics AX communithy in Saudi Arabia. Finally I was able to get a site and install the following parts:

• Announcements
• Events
• Blogs
• Forums
• Downloads
• and Feedback.

By all of those stuff in one place over the web serving the Dynamics AX ERP, we’re hoping the community members will find the website useful!

January 17, 2010 in Blog by Amer

Two Dynamics AX 2009 Development Books

Two new books have been published in the last period. Those books are talking about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 development.  Both are published by PACKT Publishing.

The first book: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook (available in PDF)

This book talks about development in Dynamics AX in an exciting way that is discussing 60 of the common scenarios in Dynamics AX development that developers usually face. From the index of contents of this book I feel that it assumes that the reader knows a bit about how to deal with MorphX. I recommend this book for junior level technical consultants that they need to step forward after spending some time on MohrphX.

Here is a short description of what this book cover:

• Explore data manipulation concepts in Dynamics AX – build data queries and modify the existing data
• Build scripts to assist data migration processes
• Organize data in Dynamics AX forms
• Enhance your application by using advanced form controls
• Create custom lookups using AOT forms and dynamically generate them from the X++ code
• Create and post Dynamics AX journals from code
• Create and manage purchase and sales orders from code
• Create a custom electronic payment format and process a vendor payment using it
• Integrate your application with Microsoft Office Suite
• Create various MS Office documents that can be used for exporting/importing business data for further distribution or analysis

The second book is: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009: Getting Started (available in PDF)

If you are new to Dynamics AX then you will like this book. I liked the way this book is structured. It encapsulates the complications that you might face in other materials and focuses on the things that you always are in need to. It starts with the very elementary basics of Dynamics AX development and goes forward up to integrating with other modules of Dynamics AX and external systems. I recommend this book for new AXers.

Here is a short description of what this book cover:

• Get to grips with the AX Development environment
• Understand the basics of the  X++ language
• Reduce the time spent on coding by storing and relating data
• Create Reporting Services reports in Visual Studio using the new Reporting Service extensions
• Optimize data retrieval to ensure each transfer contains only the data necessary for the further operations
• Manipulate data in X++
• Effectively handle transaction scope by using different operators
• Develop a .Net class in Visual Studio and then use it in AX
• Build rich web portals with Enterprise Portal and ASP.NET
• Optimize application performance and extensibility
• Create services and expose them to external applications+
• Build a new module in AX

January 4, 2010 in Blog by Amer

Microsoft Communities in Saudi and GDC ’09 at AlArabiya TV!

Do I look fat????