MS Axapta, currently Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution delivered as a service from the cloud that customers use to operate the core of their businesses.
Who is it produced by
MS Axapta (now Microsoft Dynamics AX) was originally developed as a collaboration between IBM and Danish Damgaard Data as IBM Axapta. Damgaard Data merged with Navision Software A/S in 2000 to form NavisionDamgaard, later named Navision A/S. Microsoft acquired the combined company in July 2002.
Industries
Designed for midsize and larger companies, Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Axapta) is a multilingual and multicurrency enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite with core strengths in manufacturing and e-business that also provides powerful functionality for the service and wholesale industries. Some of the companies using Microsoft Dynamics AX act in industries such as: Commercial Research, Business Credit Institutions, Investment Advice, Aircraft Engines and Engine Parts, Management Services, Computer Software, Information Technology and Services, Staffing and Recruiting, Retail, Construction, Machinery, Computer Hardware, Wholesale, Hospital & Health Care, Food Production
Resources
Features available
- General Ledger – ledger, sales tax, currency, and fixed assets features
- Bank Management – receives and pays cash
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – business relations contact and maintenance (customers, vendors, and leads)
- Accounts Receivable – order entry, shipping, and invoicing
- Accounts Payable – purchase orders, goods received into inventory
- Inventory Management – inventory management and valuation
- Master Planning (resources) – purchase and production planning
- Production – bills of materials, manufacturing tracking
- Product Builder – product mode creation and maintenance
- Human Resources – employee information
- Project Accounting – projects creation and tracking (primarily from an accounting perspective)
- Basic – data configuration
- Administration Module – system configuration
- Procurement and Sourcing
- Sales and Marketing
- Store, manage, and interpret data.
Versions available
In September 2011, Microsoft released version AX 2012. It was made available and supported in more than 30 countries and 25 languages. Dynamics AX is used in over 20,000 organizations of all sizes, worldwide.
The newest version, released in February 2016, dropped the nomenclature of year and version and was simply called AX, although was widely known as AX7. This update was a major revision with a completely new UI delivered through a browser-based HTML5 client, and initially only available as a cloud-hosted application.