Microsoft’s Lifecycle Services (LCS) is an Azure-based collaboration portal that provides a unifying, collaborative environment, helping organizations manage their Microsoft Dynamics AX application lifecycle, from pre-sales to implementation and operations. By bringing all the important aspects of implementing and managing a Dynamics AX environment together, LCS ensures a high-quality implementation through the use of specific business tools.

According to MarketingWeek, CMOs are looking to spend more of their budget on customer retention than acquisition. This shift in focus is largely due to numerous studies that have demonstrated the power of returning customers. In fact, according to Forrester Research, it costs 5 times as much money to gain new customers as it does to keep current ones.  When you compound that with research from Gartner that predicts that 80% of your company’s future revenue will come from just 20% of your existing customers, the importance of keeping your current customers happy truly comes to light.  As a result, customer relationship management (CRM) software has become increasingly popular as a method of advertising and promotion.

SharePoint 2013 offers impressive business process automation solutions, helping address your business challenges and manage day-to-day operations. With workflows in SharePoint 2013, teams can easily automate various business processes like scheduling personal time, addressing customer inquiries, managing contacts, tracking expenses, and administering claims and contracts. Wondering how SharePoint Workflows can help your business? Let’s look at 8 excellent reasons to automate business processes using SharePoint 2013 Workflows:

The HR department is the backbone of most businesses. They are responsible for attracting, training, and keeping the best available talent – playing a key role in the success and growth of an organization.  Have you ever considered streamlining your HR functionalities through an ERP system, rather than having an entirely separate portal? Microsoft Dynamics AX has numerous features in its human resources management module that makes it an efficient choice for businesses by eliminating the need for additional HR software.

Microsoft has architected the new Dynamics AX release, to leverage the full power of the cloud to revolutionize the ERP business space.

This upcoming release has been crafted with increased focus on user interface, and offers an elegant, modern and intuitive HTML5 experience similar to Windows 8 across all modern browsers, desktops, and mobile devices. The extremely visual and immersive applications offer a delightful user experience and provide seamless access to all the right information, whenever and wherever they need it. The new release of AX will include a complete HTML 5 client experience and provides a panorama view/dashboard as well as next generation role centres, unlike AX 2012 R3, which contains a MorphX user interface with features that include fact box, info part, and fast tabs.

This new release of Dynamics AX, together with Azure SQL and PowerBI, delivers real-time operational insights to make informed business decisions. Interoperability with Office 365 and Skype provides the best productivity and collaboration tools to help users maximize their productivity. With an integrated training module, users can now perform critical business processes with on-screen guidance in addition to providing voice commands to Cortana. Built and delivered from the Azure Cloud, and harnessed using the best of Microsoft technology, Dynamics AX is on the road to reinventing business productivity and efficiency, enabling organizations to get the most from their ERP investment.  Click through to review images of the upcoming release.

Last week, Microsoft announced the kickoff for the latest release for its enterprise ERP, Dynamics AX. Reimagined for a “cloud-first, mobile-first” world, the ERP will no longer have a separate release name or year, reflecting the realities of a continuously improving and updated product on the cloud.

Mike Ehrenberg, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Dynamics ERP, talked with our partner portal, ERPsoftwareblog, and explained that a preview would be open to the public and general availability will be made in Q1 2016.

The only constant is change and this is extremely true in manufacturing.  In order to meet business goals, effective project planning, proper resource utilization and efficiency in tracking costs for different projects are essential. Extremely disparate systems can make this seem like a lofty dream but for every problem, there is a solution. The latest technology solutions and ERP systems can enable manufacturers to successfully manage inventory and schedule their production to exceed these demands. Enterprise systems like Dynamics AX ERP are built to meet the dynamic needs of complex, project-driven companies and help augment and optimize business processes. They unify the highly disparate systems that are central to most project-driven companies and offer an integrated platform that enables them to achieve business process efficiency.

Investing in a campaign management solution is a strategic decision that helps your company effectively drive cross-channel marketing strategies to deliver optimal results. Dynamics CRM incorporates a built-in campaign management module that offers marketers a single, intuitive platform to plan, target, execute, and measure their marketing campaigns. As a Niche Player in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant, Microsoft offers Dynamics Marketing for multi-channel campaign management capabilities in the cloud that works in conjunction with Dynamics CRM for integration of sales and service. Dynamics CRM not only helps you promote your business but also can help drive sales through targeted marketing campaigns.

By renovating core technologies, organizations will be put in an advantageous position to exploit new technologies and emerge as winners. The infographic below gives a snapshot of how you can integrate and modernize your core technologies to bring about a digital revolution in your organization. Is your organization ready for the transformation? Are you in a position to embrace new business models to open future growth areas? Read on to find out!

Enterprise data consists of multiple data that resides in multiple systems. By bringing together data from heterogeneous sources, data warehouses offer a composite and collaborated platform that captures the entire data of an organization. Increased focus on data-driven decision making coupled with data center migrations and increased compliance regulations is compelling organizations to deploy top-notch data strategies. According to Gartner, poor quality of data costs an average organization $13.5 million a year. Since organizational decisions are based purely on enterprise data, having top quality data is essential for business excellence, mandating the need for efficient data warehouse testing.