Microsoft Dynamics AX (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations), discontinued
Microsoft Dynamics AX (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations), discontinued
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9.4
94%
Standard reports (14)
8.2
82%
Role-based user permissions (14)
8.2
82%
Accounts payable (15)
7.9
79%
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Payroll Management
8.8
88%
Customization
7.7
77%
Security
7.7
77%
Reporting & Analytics
9.0
90%
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
8.3
83%
Inventory Management
8.9
89%
Order Management
7.8
78%
Subledger and Financial Process
8.6
86%
Project Financial Management
8.8
88%
Project Execution Management
8.8
88%
Grants Management
8.7
87%
Procurement
8.7
87%
Risk Management
8.8
88%
Logistics
8.6
86%
Manufacturing
8.3
83%
Supply Chain
9.2
92%
Product Lifecycle Management
9.0
90%
Product Details
What is Microsoft Dynamics AX (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations), discontinued?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (or Dynamics AX) was an ERP product in the Dynamics family. It has been split into separate Dynamics 365 products to provide more flexibility to customers, allowing users to pay only for the functionality they need. Microsoft Dynamics AX will reach end of support in 2021, and end of extended support in 2023.
Financial tracking and budgeting features are now found in the newly launched Dynamics 365 Finance product.
Supply chain management functionality is now supplied by the newly launched Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management product.
Financial tracking and budgeting features are now found in the newly launched Dynamics 365 Finance product.
Supply chain management functionality is now supplied by the newly launched Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management product.
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Reviewers rate Resource Manager Dashboard and Real-Time Project Reporting highest, with a score of 10.
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The most common users of Microsoft Dynamics AX (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations), discontinued are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Unknown industry.
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June 08, 2022
D365 helps keep our production alive
D365 is utilized as the backbone of the business. We run all of our production, Customer Service, Quality System, warehouse management and Finance through the system. It allows us to see the overall picture of work to produce, work in progress and inventory status. Tracking of customer information and orders is easily accessible. Also, data analysis through embedded Power Bi reports makes tracking current capacity and financial information easily accessible and readable.
- User setup is easy when tied to an Azure AD.
- Task recordings create wonderful training tools for new hires.
- Integrated Power Bi reports fit seamlessly into the environment.
- Out of the box Data Entities are easy to connect to.
- End user tasks are pretty straightforward.
- Integrations for not included functionality can be expensive.
- Sorting and searching Work Orders for starting and tracking can be cumbersome.
- Error Reporting on transactions is awful and requires development to be of any use.
- Speed can be inconsistent.
- Cost.
It combines CRM and ERP in one software suite. Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is used in finance and sales development departments, as well as in our subsidiaries and partners throughout the organization so that all offices are connected in an integrated and orderly manner in terms of coordination and data management. The first aid that this platform has given us is to create an access level for each employee. The manager of each department sets a daily to-do list for each person and the person can see it in their daily work dashboard. Each user can only see and access the sections assigned to him. There is coordination in sales, finance, accounting and order, and logistics, and this is a great help in managing services.
- Ability to use the cloud and use Microsoft resources and tools in a managed way
- Integration and agility features in data transformation
- Workplace automation, live access to all financial reports and outcome forecasting
- The design and construction of the dashboard are more suitable for desktops and laptops, and no attention has been paid to users who want to work through tablets or mobile phones, and UI and UX designers should pay attention to this issue.
- The number of modules and plugins is very large and this is good, but several comprehensive and professional modules should be designed for daily tasks that do not require the installation of several modules for a simple process.
April 22, 2020
One of the best ERPs for mid-sized companies
Microsoft Dynamics AX (the new version--Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations--is being implemented now) is our main ERP system used for monthly billing, accounting, payment management, and more.
- ERP
- Accounting
- Product management
- Service agreement / service order management
- Warehousing
- Large data volume processing
- Mobile sites / apps
- Complicated deployment
This system is used organization-wide as the financial system of record. All employees enter project time sheets, expenses, and the finance team uses it for all AP, AR, tax and project accounting and reporting. We had an older platform and upgrade to take advantage of the continuous updates offered by Microsoft.
- Platform stability.
- Support.
- Continuous updates.
- Life cycles services for deploying and managing environments.
- Complexity of the system - most things require coding.
- Mobile workspaces aren’t great and while usable aren’t that intuitive.
- Cloud hosted development environments take a long time to configure and deploy databases to.
Microsoft Dynamics AX is being used in our Asia region for logistics and used across multiple departments in the region for sales. The application is robust enough to serve the users even with high latency connection and low bandwidth while achieving high availability and stability that our users need in the region. It is also compliant with various ASEAN countries regulations for data access and integrity and provide secure access to our team members in the region.
- Microsoft Dynamics AX's scalability to meet our regional office needs provide flexibility to the team's requirements.
- Combined with Citrix Xenapp, the application offers seamless access for users on high latency unreliable network connection to the application.
- Application maintenance and updates are easy which makes it possible for us to manage remotely considering the servers are located in a remote Asia site.
- Application version upgrade could be simpler to provide easy way to backup config and settings and allow in-place upgrade.
- Support of newer and latest operating systems could use improvement in matching the roadmap of other Microsoft products.
- Better support of mobile devices and non-Microsoft operating systems without reliance on third-party platforms such as VMware or Citrix products.
- Users mention desire for wider support of printing devices and ease of formatting printouts.
November 20, 2018
AX in a production company
We use AX as our main system to manage logistics, purchasing, sales, accounting, reporting, controlling, production and quality. AX is our main system because all the company processes are traced inside. We create orders, trace production; accept material for quality point of view and we generate invoices and manage general accounting transactions.
- Has an easy interface for users so training and learning is fast
- The module organization allows an easy integration between processes
- It's easy to be customized both on the interface and in adapting the processes to business needs
- Self-reporting for users - the available report seldom fits the users need and often needs to be customized
- Definition of standard process workflows - this implies there is too much flexibility
- The available documentation, manuals or instructions are very rare and not well designed
- MRP run time is too high
March 23, 2018
Dynamite experience with Dynamics!
Microsoft Dynamics AX is being used as our ERP system by order entry, production, finance, procurement and other departments across the whole organization.
- It is a stable software that generally performs well.
- It is integrated well with Microsoft Excel with relative ease of downloading tables, reports, and queries into Excel.
- Adaptable to meet business needs.
- Item master is comprehensive.
- Our current version (2009) has a complex security setup.
- Our older version lacks some in innovation and features.
- Our older version cannot share reports and queries across companies.
Our organization is using Microsoft Dynamics AX across our entire organization. As a wholesale distributor, we are using AX as an ERP to manage inventory, sales, accounting, procurement, and more. AX gives us a single solution to manage our organization and create more efficiencies in our business processes.
- Pricing: Microsoft Dynamics AX gives us good flexibility in how we price our products.
- UX: Microsoft Dynamics AX has a good user interface to put valuable information on the screen for users.
- Inventory Management: Microsoft Dynamics AX does a great job at giving us insight into our inventory.
- Call center does not easily support orders taken from multiple locations.
- Payment integration has been challenging, but ultimately doable.
- There are several minor bugs that pop up from time to time.
September 13, 2017
Appreciation of Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics is used across the whole organisation. It assists in the recruitment and selection process of new employees. It also helps streamline payroll processes by feeding off information from the HR module in the system. Stock management is also streamlined as purchases and issues of items from store are easily managed through the purchase ledger module. Finally, the use of the "Port call module" addresses the issues relating to vessels calling to the Port to ensure that the proper information relating to the vessel is capture which will eventually translate into proper charges.
- Managing employees from Hiring to retiring. Through the HR module, a recruitment project could be initiated and followed through to receiving applications, conducting interviews, hiring and retiring.
- Stock Management. Items can be managed to ensure that re-order levels are always updated. When re-order level is low, the Microsoft Dynamics Ax allows for a purchase request to be initiated on those items, goes through a workflow of approvals, a request for quote is sent to vendors and then a purchase order sent to chosen vendor.
- Management of payroll system. Employees are created through the HR Module and set up for payroll. Any additional earnings or deduction are applied on the same employee's details to complete the pay structure and this is made possible through the inter module relations in Microsoft Dynamics.
- Sales Ledger. Currently, the idea behind the sales ledger module is that the company prepares a sales order for another company. I would prefer the developers consider the scenario where a sales order is prepared for the same company but for another branch or unit.
- Postings of issues items are currently possible but none of the modules caters to "departmental material or item request". Further tweaks have been done on our Project Module to cater for this but it's not entirely perfect. This will enable aid in cost allocation per departmental request of materials or items.
- Challenges with the bank module - does not allow for easily reconciliation as the statement from the banks can not be uploaded except for specific format.
September 06, 2017
Microsoft Dynamics AX Review
This is the main ERP system of the company.
All departments of the company use Microsoft Dynamics AX, including Sales, Sales Operations, Sales Planning, Logistics, Accounting, Finance, Production.
- Microsoft Dynamics AX can export data directly from the system to an Excel spreadsheet just by a click.
- Microsoft Dynamics AX allows us to switch entity while still keeping our customized view of display.
- Microsoft Dynamics AX is easier for FX conversion.
- Microsoft Dynamics AX has all data, however, converting data to a report needs to go through via another solution. We used Sales Cube (very slow and not user friendly in settings), then we switched to Anaplan.
- Bringing new fields into the current data set is sometimes confusing.
- It would be better if we could schedule some daily refresh data saved automatically from Microsoft Dynamics AX to the public drive by end-users themselves.
August 04, 2017
Dynamics AX - Great ERP
Dynamics AX is used by our entire organization as our enterprise ERP solution.
- Excellent visual representation of data
- Overwhelming amount of information available at most at a click
- Data is interconnected between departments and business processes very well
- Lots of extra fields and data that is unneeded
- Performance can be slow
March 03, 2017
Not intuitive but good for interconnection
We recently just switched over to this software for our accounting and invoicing system. Getting used to it has been rough but it gets better after a lot of repetition. There are definitely areas that Microsoft Dynamics AX could majorly improve on. Generally, the feedback I've given and gotten across departments is that this system is not user-friendly or intuitive and there is a lot of extra clicking around.
- Great for splitting invoices amoung multiple department cost centers
- Good for security reasons since you can only see the invoices you have keyed in
- Not intuitive or user-friendly
- A lot of extra clicking around to do simple tasks
- Limit the amount of information you can give in descriptions and doesn't auto populate all information it should
- Annoying that you can't see the status of invoices of when they were paid or when they will be paid
- Annoying that you can't see invoices from others on your team because you didn't input the invoice
March 01, 2017
Great ERP System for a Medium or Large Manufacturer
We use Dynamics AX across the entire enterprise as our only ERP system. We have it integrated with our PLM system (Windchill), and this works very well. We use AX for managing resources, inventories, planning, purchasing, scheduling, and production. Dynamics AX is a modern ERP system that does well communicating real-time information to every department that uses it. This addresses the problem of our departments working together seamlessly.
- Dynamics AX is reasonably intuitive and easy to learn and use, even for workers who aren't extremely computer savvy.
- Dynamics AX integrates and communicates well with our PLM system in real time.
- Dynamics AX ties the information and data created and used by various departments together immediately, making needed data available to the people who need it.
- Dynamics AX could be a little more visual. It's very text-based.
September 06, 2016
Why I love MS AX
We use AX from the very beginning of an order all the way to the end. Our sales reps use AX to enter orders (As well as check order status, inventory, etc.). We use it to track production, produce goods and ship/invoice orders.
- Work Flow
- Order Entry
- Invoicing
- Shipping Logistics
- Inventory Managment
- Inventory managment
- User functinality
March 28, 2016
AX - To Be or Not To Be
As my capacity as a consultant, I've overseen Dynamics AX deployments for five organizations in industries such as distribution, manufacturing and professional services. Four of these involved international operations. In all cases there was a requirement to convert to a more powerful ERP solution.
- AX has powerful financials including use of dimensions ideal for reporting
- AX now has a mature projects module ideal for professional services organizations
- AX has also matured into a viable product to support global and multi-national organizations
- AX report writing tools are not intuitive and almost always require external resources to write them - improvement in this regard is needed.
- While AX 2012 R2 was a nice save from the original release I have a long memory - greater care and attention to alpha and beta testing is in order to minimize issues with a release that should have never gone out the door.
March 30, 2015
AX Architect and User
Microsoft Dynamics AX is used across various departments with our customers. In some cases there are separate systems for inventory, A/R and the integration and management of bi-directional data is easy to setup and maintain. It addresses costing of inventory, speeds the time to close for the finance teams, and with inter-operability with Office (Word, Excel, Visio) it is fast to train new users.
- GL and use of dimensions allows for a 'lighter' chart of accounts and dynamic use of data categorizations for reporting and budget control.
- The entire ERP system is integrated, so Inventory in particular is straight forward to create (items can be inventory, service or BOMs) and the costing options are flexible enough to offer different costing (FIFO, LIFO, Standard...) for different groups of inventory and pricing (cost and/or sales) can be different based on site/WH designation.
- Cash and Bank management is now an independent module and offers better tools to manage cash flow. This is true for Budgeting as well as this functionality makes setting, managing and updating budgets easy as it works seamlessly with Excel.
- Data and ERP system updates at the transactional level is less complex as you can export and then import data via Excel into AX as long as your security rights give you access to the tables/data in question.
- Project service and project accounting is deep in functions as it will work with Project Server, Invoice with time and material or fixed fee projects and works great for projects internal or external in managing/capturing all time for a specific initiative.
- MRP can be slow to adapt to changes in actual production or supply chain transactions.
- Setting up number sequences seems a trivial matter, but these numbers ID transactions once they are in the ledger and are key--easy to miss this point in the implementation process.
- Bank rec being easily automated and able to quickly plug into a bank back end to get data is not the best.
- Payment processing can be 'clunky' based on checks, ACH, Wires...as some of these items are not triggered out of the box in AX, bur are easily added --talking ACH and Wires specifically.
October 04, 2014
Microsoft Dynamics is the next ERP
My company implements Microsoft Dynamics, and I have seen how this tools helps them to address different needs, from the product design, to procurement, planning, manufacturing execution, sales and shipping.
- Managing Lean Manufacturing works well in DAX, because it can help to control a lean manufacturing process for several types of orders, runners, repeaters, and strangers. It can also work with mix models, discrete manufacturing with lean manufacturing.
- Intercompany transactions is a very useful functionality that automates and simplifies transactions between companies of the same enterprise group.
- User friendly and integration with Microsoft tools such as Excel, SSAS, SSRS
- Easily integrates with other software
- Quality Management there is a lot of functionality needed from quality reporting and control, action follow up and sampling.
- Fixed Assed service management, there is much to develop for maintenance control.
- Discrete manufacturing scheduling utilities, for example scheduling production orders by the sales order they are pegged.
- Enterprise portal need a lot of improvement
- Integration with Microsoft office has a lot of space for improvement.
- Lean manufacturing has several opportunities to expand on scheduling and floor execution
- Product life cycle management
- Integration with Microsoft CRM
- Integration with other ERP systems
July 28, 2014
AX at a glance.
I am in the middle of a full implementation of most modules offered by Microsoft Dynamics AX. The system infrastructure of the system seems to be very robust in comparisons with earlier versions. Auto-posting of batch jobs run smoother over a larger number of legal entities where previous versions struggled. Many aspects of the previous versions have been simplified to provide a more logical and intuitive approach.
- The CU7 release has some great additional functionality in Human resources allowing flexibility of transferring and terminating workers.
- Previous dimension hierarchy setup has been replaced by accounting structures that are far more intuitive to use.
- Workflow setup is still not an out-of-the-box function in HR. Approvals are a key part of the business process in HR and this is a large effort to modify.
- Separation of line level costs and revenue are still problematic. Configured lines do not have distribution capabilities.
- We still do not see a release with a place to house product warranty information. A real miss a one the customer asks for.
- The email template tool is limited to applicants and really should be leveraged for use across the system.
December 17, 2012
Good lean manufacturing product for SMB.
- Lean and job shop manufacturing for non-integrated facilities, with emphasis on domestic logistics.
- Integrate facilities, export logistics, complex product configuration manufacturing management
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught