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Microsoft Ignite 2018 day 1 recap

Today Microsoft Ignite 2018 has kicked off with a lot of exciting news.
You may view sessions and on-demand videos on the main site:

One of the most important content is the fall release documentation referred as 2018 October Release Notes, available on the Docs site

We can use new, more advanced and modern capabilities of the Power platform. Microsoft is also introducing AI to many Dynamics 365 products.

We can access a new library of training courses on a portal called Microsoft Learn. Here we get free learning opportunity for tools like PowerApps, Flow and Common Data Service.

The highlight which I am very excited about now is the soon-to-be-released tool called Regression Test Suite already mentioned in the release documentation. It was one of our requests during a workshop with Microsoft to improve capabilities on automating our manual user interactions. Every Friday after our regular maintenance we go through the same set of tasks for validating stability. This is to ensure that there are no disruptions to our business operation due to deploying code. This tool could be the answer to that by creating chains of small operational tasks, then running the entire test suite containing those test cases and validating the results in an automated fashion.

Microsoft is also improving the technical areas with further updates:

I would highly recommend to take your time and go through the wealthy content and videos shared as part of Microsoft Ignite 2018.

By DAXRunBase|2018-09-24T19:07:48+02:00September 24th, 2018|Categories: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations|Tags: #MSDyn365FO, CDS, Common Data Service, Docs, Dynamics 365, Flow, Ignite, PowerApps, Regression Test Suite|0 Comments

Convergence 2015 EMEA quick overview

The first two days of Microsoft Convergence 2015 EMEA has passed in Barcelona and the many sessions with a technological angle has revealed a lot of interesting topics. I would like to give a quick summary highlight on what can we expect around the Microsoft Dynamics AX space and its technology stack.

Responsive layout AX 7 user interface served via a web service, without the requirement of a client installation
Keyboard shortcuts are still available, with slight changes to exclude common overlapping key combinations within web browers
PowerApps is a new platform which can communicate with a range of applications to quickly and interactively deliver mobile-based apps, including AX
https://powerapps.microsoft.com
Power BI is supported natively within the AX 7 dashboards as tiles
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsa/archive/2015/02/18/power-bi-and-dynamics-ax-part-1-introduction.aspx
Application Integration Framework, Data Import Export framework and Office product integrations have all been consolidated to use a Data entity approach using OData as communication protocol
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh237663.aspx
Excel static data export is now available on all AX7 forms with a datasource, and interactive two-fold communication has been extended
SharePoint document store is now seamlessly integrated with AX 7 to replace/extend the Document attachments functionality
Developer workspace is now an integral part of Microsoft Visual Studio, with keeping the object-based, typed MorphX style development along with the X++ language. There are slight alterations, ie. Jobs are now called differently and are executing server-side due to a lack of a true client

There is no official release date announced yet, Dan Brown (AX R&D General Manager) only has confirmed Q1 2016 for the publicly available version.

As the day progresses at Convergence 2015 EMEA, potentially more news and insight will be revealed.

By DAXRunBase|2015-12-02T10:22:32+01:00December 2nd, 2015|Categories: AX 7|Tags: AX 7, Convergence, MorphX, OData, Power BI, PowerApps, X++|0 Comments