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With Dynamics AX you have a business solution that can be exposed over the internet via itís web enterprise portal. Not only does this provide an alternative route into your business system but also a highly cost effective way of disseminating information amongst your customers, suppliers and your own personnel.
With its own design and configuration tool, a portal can be configured around your own requirements, no third party products are involved the functionality all being native Dynamics AX.
'Roles' have already been defined by Microsoft so as to speed the deployment over the internet using the web portal interface. These roles can easily be tailored to suit the needs of the users and as with the standard Dynamics AX client you can integrate with other products from Microsoft such as Excel etc...
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Fig 2 demonstrates the configurability of the Dynamics AX portal interface, in this example data from several Dynamics AX modules is being displayed using a variety of standard report and display tools. A link to an external RSS news feed is a simple example of interfacing to another system, more complex interfaces can be incorporated into a portal using standard Microsoft technologies to communicate efficiently with other systems and data sources bringing them all together within one view.
This flexibility and the ability to display transactional as well as graphical data using standard tools in the Dynamics AX Portal can have a dramatic impact on the efficiency of your users. A portal can be tailored providing a personalised view of your ERP system which can become your first point of enquiry into Dynamics. As the source of the data is all Dynamics AX a user can drill down to the underlying information to investigate further if required.
The Dynamics Enterprise Portal can also be a highly cost effective means of deploying Dynamics AX throughout your business. With a lower cost per seat than the standard AX client interface and with intuitive browser navigation reducing the training overhead many organisations utilise the enterprise portal for their high level and casual users.