- [Tom] Hello and welcome.
I'm Tom Higginbotham a Technical Architect
with Microsoft Corporation.
This video is an expanded version
of the Dynamics 365 Technology Enhancements
that were presented in the shorter teaser video.
Customers migrating from older versions of Dynamics AX,
will benefit from major improvements that were made
to the Dynamics 365 technologies and platform.
I'm excited to share some of these with you,
so let's get started.
In addition to the transformation of Dynamics AX
into a cloud service.
Now known as Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain.
Several technology and platform enhancements
have also been delivered.
Over the next several minutes
I'll cover these in more detail.
In Dynamics 365
business documents are the external facing reports
that are generated
when specific business activities are conducted.
For example,
this could include invoices to customers,
or purchase orders to suppliers.
Templates are used
to select and organize the data on business documents.
Business users can configure these templates
in the business document management workspace shown here.
Templates can be configured in either Microsoft Excel Online
or the Excel desktop app.
Specific configurations can include visual
such as style, color, or logo,
and structural such as data source and field.
Dynamics 365 print management
applies the template to the document generation process.
A common template can be used
for all recipients of a document
as well as unique designs or specific parties.
Dynamics 365 provides a collection of
pre-built analytic dashboards
that are based on the Microsoft Power BI
visualization platform.
These dashboards are available in the service automatically.
And unlike previous versions of Dynamics AX,
require no additional purchase or configuration.
Business users consume and interact with
the analytic workspaces,
just like any other Power BI report.
In addition, users can edit the analytics in the Power BI,
offering experience within Dynamics 365.
The Microsoft Modern Data Warehouse
allows you to bring together
all of your organizations data at any scale.
It allows you to provide insights
through analytical dashboards, operational reports,
or advanced analytics to all of your users.
Dynamics 365 provides the foundational framework
to publish directly into Azure Data Lake Storage,
which serves as the store for all of your data.
Dynamics 365 uses Azure DevOps
to unify your people and processes
to enable continuous delivery of value
to your ERP implementation.
Azure DevOps replaces the traditionally siloed
development and operations functions
to create multidisciplinary teams
that can work together
with shared and efficient practices and tools.
This illustration shows a number of the functions
in traditional ERP projects
that require effort and ongoing maintenance,
such as project plans, status reports, requirements,
and test scripts to name just a few.
Azure DevOps centralizes the management
of all of these functions and more,
to significantly reduce the overall management
and ongoing maintenance of project deliverables.
Dynamics 365 provides a services based
integration platform
used for all data and application integration scenarios.
Within the service are restful endpoints
for synchronous and realtime integrations,
event based subscriptions,
and asynchronous high volume
or bulk import export integrations.
This service based integration model
provides the ability to integrate
with a wide variety of applications, services,
and data that are within your enterprise.
Dual-write is the near real-time data integration service
used by Dynamics 365.
It provides a tightly coupled near real-time
and bi directional integration,
between Finance and Supply Chain apps
and customer engagement apps in the common data service.
Any create,
update, or delete in either location
results in rights in near real-time
to the common data service.
For example, creating a customer in Finance and Supply Chain
creates an account
in the common data service and vice versa.
The configuration of Dual-write
is performed within Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain.
It is here where out of the box data mappings
are activated and managed.
The Dual-write framework is also extensible
and provides a low/no code
entity mapping configuration experience.
Lifecycle Services or LCS,
is the implementation, support, and administration portal
for Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain.
It delivers a single view of the project implementation
that all stakeholders in the organization can visit
to see the up to date status of the project at any time.
LCS also provides visibility and management access
to the environments that are deployed
in the cloud service subscription.
The LCS Environment monitoring dashboard,
provides a storyboard view that shows what was happening
in an environment during a particular time period.
This allows you to see detailed activities
on your SQL database,
as well as the other application services
in your environment.
Detailed user activity can also be analyzed
to assist in any kind of troubleshooting activity.
Finally, detailed traces can be collected
from sandbox test environments
and continuously sent to the
Azure Application Insights shown here.
Azure Application Insights
provides powerful analytics tools
that can be used to query deep into the telemetry,
to help you diagnose issues
and understand what users were doing in the environment.
The Task Recorder allows you to create
tutorial based experiences
that can guide users through specific business processes
that you have implemented.
Task recordings provide step by step instructions
that guide the user through the business process.
Task recordings are published and made available
to business users in the Dynamics 365 online help system.
This allows new users or new hires,
to get up to speed quickly
on the new system or serve as reference for tasks
that users infrequently perform.
Finally, Task Guides can also generate documentation
in the form of Word documents, including screenshots.
This concludes this overview of the key technology
and platform enhancements to Dynamics 365
for Finance and Supply Chain.
Thank you.