SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 CTP with variosu fxes and enhancements – For more details please visit the KB article 2630455 accompanying the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 CTP release.
Management Reporter 2012 – Synergy Software Systems, Dubai
May 17th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Managment Reporter 2012 is a major enhancement as mentioned previously in thsi blog series here is recap and some more information that emerged at Convergence.
One of the welcome changes involves the format account numbers -see diagram – you can now turn off the ‘+Account =’ description on a user-by-user basis.
Features added:
- Missing Account Analysis—this is similar Exception Reporting in FRx, although implemented in a different way.
- Headers for rolling forecasts— again similar to FRx
Drillback capability:
- Drill back works for either account or budget
- Drill to Dynamics icon: opens the voucher transaction screen on a selcted transaction
- Drill back in budgets to budget register - iew the Detail Inquiry screen on an account level then drill—all the way back to the source document
For AX2012:
- AX organizational hierarchies are available for use in MMR. A newly published organizational hierarchy appears in MMR, and you can use either it, or a reporting tree. The system picks a hierarchy based on the report date. Also use a hierarchy as starting point—save it as a reporting tree and edit it.
- Manage all users from inside AX .
Architecture change— A Datamart is available
The AX 2012 GL changed substantially from AX 2009.
- It doesn’t track summary GL balances.
- It no longer has a single transaction table. Instead it has 5 separate tables and these all have to be joined in order to get a number to add to the beginning balance in order to get a balance in an account.
- This is what MR is doing behind the scenes, and that is why it was slow on AX 2012 before Management Reporter 2012 was released
- The new datamart changes things significantly since MR will pull already calculated numbers from the datamart (which is simply an SQL database)
Report Distribution:
- Publish to Sharepoint or to a network share
- Email reports via Sharepoint alerts
- Email a link to a report from within Report Viewer
- Generate to multiple Report Library locations like Library/Finance, /Operations, /Sales and Related Report Link Locations for network shares
- Schedule either an individual report or a report group
- On a Sharepoint site, there are 3 options for opening a report—the Report Viewer, Excel, and XPS
- If you have the licenses for it, then install the Report Viewer for the optimum drilldown experience
Performance:
- Performance enhancements across the board on the engine
- Calculated rows are considerably faster
What else?:
- Company integration: import companies instead of creating those manually (everyone but the datamart implementations)
- Personalized & secure view of data in all output types (Viewer, Excel, XPS)
- Attach comments to important rows
- Chart a single row (or selected rows & columns)
- Instant Messenger icon on toolbar—launch IM client from within a report
- Page within a report with paging icons on the lower right
- Jump to key areas of a report with GoTo section at lower left
- An enhanced toolbar—it has an Export to Excel icon!
- Find a key value in a report such as an account description
Note:
- You need a viewer license for the Report Viewer
- NP rows do print in excel
- Row linking—
- Migrating from FRx—currently you must go to MMR v2 first, then to MMR 2012
- Side by side installations of MMR v2 and MMR 2012 do work
- Licensing is different from FRx—named Ax users instead of concurrent users
- Status quo: a Forecaster integration tool pushes Forecaster budget data into the ERP
PaaS – new offerings in ‘the cloud’.
May 13th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Microsoft recently announced that it was killing the Windows Live brand, and it is apperently also remove Zune . Microsoft is also dropping the “Azure” brand from a wide lineup of cloud services, too. This was revealed in an email message to Azure customers. “In the coming weeks, we will update the Windows Azure Service names,” These are only name changes: Your prices for Windows Azure are not impacted.”
Each Azure service is being rebranded with a simpler, more obvious name. and the whole oeefirn is now PaaS ie Platform as a service.
Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS), is now joined by Amazon, who have announced support for SQL Server alongside MySQL and Oracle in its AWS-based Relational Database Service (RDS). Amazon is also providing .NET support via their Elastic Beanstalk, and Visual Studio integration, so the two products are starting to look very similar. RDS is not new; it has been running for two and a half years now, but SQL Server support is newRDS is much more like Azure, because the underlying EC2 infrastructure auto-magically expands and contracts to meet the demands of the database workload. RDS also takes care of deploying, patching, and backing up of the database.
To add to the competition Tier 3 launched a CloudFoundry-based PaaS called Web Fabric that supports .NET framework, and their data Fabric supports SQL Server. This service is more akin with Amazon’s EC2-based AMIs, but based on VMWare.
For any business contemplating moving their windows-based IT services to the cloud they are not forced to turn to Microsoft both as their service provider and as their software provider. It takes away one of the stumbling points that has hindered take-up of Cloud services.
Infor10 ION Suite 10.2 – Now Available from Synergy Software Systems Dubai
May 10th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »This new release provides connectivity to SAP and legacy applications.
Infor is pleased to announce the general availability of Infor10 ION Suite version 10.2. This is the fourth release of ION, and continues to set the foundation for interoperability, business process management, and more.
ION 10.2 has more than 20+ new features :
- New connectivity options with SAP which enable Infor strategic applications like PLM, EAM, and WMS to connect to SAP or enable two-tier ERP strategy where corporate financials uses SAP and manufacturing is Infor.
- New file connector to integrate legacy applications or homegrown systems.
- Business process management improved with loopback functionality, decision tables, and conditional alerting.
- Pulse can now send all activities to Business Vault for business process reporting.
- ION ActivityLocator allows end users graphically to see the progress of a specific workflow.
- Enables document attachments to tasks and alerts.
ION Suite – Certified Partner- Dubai- Synergy Sofware Systems
May 8th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »ION Suite is a new generation of business middleware that is lighter weight, less technically demanding to implement, and built on open standards. It is designed to meet the needs of the business and the needs of the CIO to contain IT costs.
But there’s more to ION Suite than just easy to use connectivity. With ION Suite, businesses get common reporting and analysis, workflow, and business monitoring with one, consistent architecture. In addition, ION Suite uses event-driven architecture (EDA), so it can pro-actively push data, work activities, and exception notifications to users.
Users don’t need to go to the system to get the information they need—ION Suite makes sure the information comes straight to those.
Synergy Software Systems has certified consultants on all 4 areas of the solution which is now a cornerstone of Infor’s solutions and future road map.
ION Suite includes four powerful services that are easy to install and configure:
ION CONNECT—Get your applications to operate together easily, so you can seamlessly execute business processes; quickly bring new partners and customers onboard; and reuse business functionality so you realize quick ROI.
- Easy set up. Infor applications operate with a standard business language so ION Suite setup is easy. You don’t need to do any translation or mapping—two of the biggest integration challenges.
- Easy operations. If you’re running a portion of your business in the cloud, ION Suite can exchange data working in a hybrid model. You don’t need a second, separate integration stack to maintain it.
- Easy connections. ION Suite includes a library of “connectors” to integrate to third-party applications, so you can quickly integrate non-Infor apps into your system.
ION BUSINESS VAULT—A single, optimized, unbreakable business repository where ION Suite stores enterprise data. This unifying source for all the data that flows through ION Suite makes it a robust platform for reporting, business intelligence, and analytics.
- Up-to-date data. The Business Vault uses an event-driven model for synchronization, so data is synchronized as soon as a transaction occurs in the originating system.
- Easier search. Enterprise search is easier, since data resides in one place—there’s no need to index your transactional systems.
- Better reporting. The Business Vault features a master data reference for excellent reporting and integrations scenarios.
ION EVENT MANAGEMENT—Monitor the status of your tasks in relation to promised completion or established service level agreements (SLAs), and automatically receive alerts about exceptions and potential non-compliance.
- You make the rules. ION Event Management detects exceptions based on business rules that you define. Notifications and alerts can be triggered by Event Management and directed to the appropriate users with ION Workflow. Also, ION can detect exceptions within a single source system.
- Detect non-events. Event Management can also detects non-events—things that should have happened, but didn’t—for example, a shipment to an important customer that missed its due date or time. Sales or Operations Management can be immediately alerted, so they can address the business issue.
- Provide better service. Event Management can also be used to monitor SLAs, so you meet your performance levels and maintain excellent customer service.
ION WORKFLOW—Direct work activities, events and business documents to any user so you execute business processes quickly and accurately
- Create quickly. Workflow modeling is graphical and based on Business Process Management Notation (BPMN 2.0) standard. This makes it easy to create even complex workflows, and know that they’ll work across applications.
- Automate approvals. Create simple to more sophisticated workflows to automate document routing and approvals across departments and office locations worldwide.
- Manage centrally. All tasks and alerts generated by Event Management and Workflow are managed through the Tasklist, which features an Activity Stream- based user interface. And because ION Tasklist can run stand-alone or in a portal, you can work the way you want to work.
Get ready for support for mobile and tablet devices later, to provide even more flexibility.
Be an early adopter at a very, very special price.
Critical Microsoft patches May 2012
May 7th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Microsoft said it would ship seven security updates on 8 May The number of patches — nearly two dozen — is higher than usual.
Four updates will address vulnerabilities in Windows; four will impact Office, Microsoft’s popular application suite; and one will affect the Silverlight development framework. Three of the pending bulletins are Office-only, while one is shared with Windows and Silverlight. The trio of Office-only updates will patch flaws in Word, Excel, and Visio. “There’s a heavy lean toward Office here,” Storms noted.
Bulletin 2 should rise to the top of the to-do list – these patches are critical, and impact virtually every edition of Windows, applies to all currently supported versions of Office on Windows, and patches one or more bugs in Silverlight.
Although today’s advance notification for next week’s Patch Tuesday was the usual bare-bones outline, Storms suspected that Bulletin 2 would fix bugs in the .Net development framework, which is included by default with Windows, and is also used by Office programmers.
“.Net could be the common ground,” Storms speculated.
Others, including Kandek and Marcus Carey of Rapid7, didn’t call out a single update for special attention, but instead noted that the three critical bulletins, as well as two labeled important, should be patched as soon as possible next week.
Both updates rated important can result in what Microsoft calls “remote code execution” — meaning attackers could hijack a PC if they successfully exploited the vulnerabilities — and were aimed at Excel and Visio.
Two of the four Office updates will apply to the 2008 and 2011 editions of Office for Mac.
Storms also commented on Microsoft’s apparent quickened bug-patching tempo so far this year. When next week’s 23 are added to the mix, Microsoft will have issued 70 patches so far this year; the company had fixed only 59 flaws by the end of May 2011.
Microsoft will release the seven updates at approximately 1 p.m. Eastern Time 8 May 2012 ie tomorrow
Can you copyright software?
May 7th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »The first part of this article comprises extracts from: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/programming-languages-not-copyrightable-rules-top-eu-court-192231
The European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright in relation to a case brought by SAS Institute against World Programming Limited (WPL).
WPL created a product that emulates much of the functionality of the SAS components, so that customers’ application programs can run in the same way on WPL as on the SAS components.
The court found that although WPL used and studied SAS programs in order to understand their functioning, there was “nothing to suggest that WPL had access to or copied the source code of the SAS components.” It ruled that “The purchaser of a license for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program.”
If it were accepted that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such, that would amount to making it possible to monopolize ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development, decided the court, echoing the opinion given last November by the court’s Advocate General, Yves Bot.
The result is that the court finds that ideas and principles which underlie any element of a computer program are not protected by copyright under that directive, only the expression of those ideas and principles. This in effect leaves the door open for other software companies to “reverse engineer” programs in many cases without fear of infringing copyright.
In practice this has happened in other industries – for example with mobile phones and tablets, or chocolate bars, or cars. The vertical requirements for a piece of software are often the same e.g IFRS compliance, BOM calculations, Loyalty card sysem etc just as are useability features e.g integration, or compatibility. New features such as 2 d bar codes, or cross platform workflows, or dahsboards or mobility provide an edge until others find a way of emualting the same features. It’s a thin line when you copy code and marketing material. The wide availability of open source material, and innumerable blog sites authors who publish code that is not theirs, considerably clouds the acceptable boundaries.
Is this decision good for competition, or does it discourage investment. Will it lead to enahced systems or will it introduce extra cost and complexity for encyrption and security devices? Howw ill the major software vendors react? This looks ike te tip of very large iceberg.
Merger and Acquistion – M@A – Dubai ll
May 6th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »How do you evaaluate an opportunity?
- PESTEL
- SWOT analysis
- Brain storming
How do you present the idea to others?
- Strategey maps
How do you provide context relevant information?
- Shapes, colours and icons
- Embedded files and hypelrinks
How do youplan to make it happen and assign responsibility and timelines without losing the big picture?
- Pictorial project plan with element properties linked to MS project
How do you support collaboration across tiemzones and geographies and disciplines, and numerous documents?
- Integrate all of these tools with your M@A trading paltform and your document repository
- Integrate with BPM tools with electornic notifcations approvals and workflows
How do you create agendas and keep meetings on track and capture minutes onw ide ranging discussions?
and
How do you make it happen on time?
All of the above - but how?
Take a look at Mind Manager - easy to use, fast to deploy, and multiple applications.
Merger and Acquistion – M@A – Dubai
May 1st, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »The recent Middle East M@A Forum 2012 held in Dubai indicates that the market is creeping back to pre recession levels with a threefold increase in deals Q! 2012 compared with Q4 2011. However, deal size is reducing and bank financing is still the norm.
When stock markets are depressed investors may prefer to sit back and wait better times and valuations.
Market confidence is still cautious and the time and detail needed to close deals is often greater than anticipated.
Secure, streamlined collaborative processes are key to deal conclusion. Over the next few blog posts I will discuss how business systems support the M@A process.
Sets start with our partner Intralink which was one of the event sponsors.
Deasl are complex, and involve coordinating large amounts of sensitive documents and communication between many deal participants. IntraLinks Dealspace streamlines multi-party collaboration and content exchange so you can secure financing or liquidate assets faster.
Spend more time closing deals and less time managing paperwork. IntraLinks Dealspace is designed to deliver the most powerful, secure virtual data rooms and related tools to increase your deal’s success throughout the full M&A lifecycle.
You are in the business of doing deals. So why does so much of your time seem to involve organizing documents, making sure bankers have up to date numbers in their models, outside counsel is reviewing the right contracts, and the documents your deal team has are the right versions? Hours spent on administrative details could be hours spent focusing on your deal. Speed and efficiency are critical to the success of a deal, storing information on shared drives and creating and maintaining physical data rooms to support the due diligence process are limiting in the modern global economy and no longer effective in reaching all of your potential buyers.
IntraLinks Dealspace accelerates all phases of the deal cycle to ensure that your deal runs as efficiently and effectively as possible. With IntraLinks Dealspace your team controls the deal process from sourcing through to closing and post merger integration. Manage the secure and compliant exchange of critical information such as teasers, non-disclosure agreements, and due diligence information and participate in the Q&A process with the peace of mind that your content is secure. IntraLinks Dealspace also supports sourcing of new opportunities within the IntraLinks Dealspace community. With IntraLinks Dealspace, your deal information is available anywhere, anytime, so you can expand your reach to find the right buyer regardless of time zones or geographies. With web-based and mobile access deal participants can exchange and review content on the go ensure the deal stays in motion.
- Launch deals faster and increase productivity by using IntraLinks Designer to upload, manage, and organize information
- Reuse deal templates to leverage best practices and get deals up and running faster
- Manage deal teams and tasks globally with a multi-language user interface
- Ensure transparency and version control of documents by consolidating information on a single platform
- Track and report on all activity and information related to a deal to support compliance
- Secure sensitive deal information with features such as digital rights management capabilities and IntraLinks Viewer for secure document exchange and viewing
- Provide insight into activity across deals with reporting and dashboard capabilities
- Respond more effectively to bidder requests with Q&A functionality
- Avoid or quickly address post deal litigation and disputes with a searchable archive
- Easily transition key documents of record with integration connectors and adapters between IntraLinks and third party systems such as Microsoft SharePoint
Cumulative Update 3 for Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack
April 23rd, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Cumulative Update 3 for Dynamics AX 2012 and Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack – no specific release date but expected is the second half June.
AX Pact CEO Conference – ROME 2012
April 23rd, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »A well run event that brought together 22 major Ax partners. Predictable topics of discussion included:
- how Microsoft’s Partner model is adapting , and why it needs to adapt, to successfully deliver a true enterprise solution as we now have with Ax 2012
- the impact and opportunity of the cloud for Ax Pact members
- increased member collaboration
- specialist Ax vertical solutions from Ax Pact members
A mix of social events encompassing Golf, a Vatican Tour, and some pleasant meals oiled the wheels of conversation and it proved a great opportunity to benchmark business strategies, forge relationships with expert companies and catch up on industry gossip. As Ax 2012 establishes itself in the enterprise space being part of global network of accredited partners, working to a common methodology, with in an agreed commercial framework, with access to specialist resources, srengthens our ability to continue to deliver successful projects for our clients.
Ax Pact – Synergy Software Systems
April 17th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments » 
Synergy Software Systems partners with Global customers and our client list is a testament to the quality of services and support we provide. We have experience of multi geography projects that few Middle East, or even international parners can truly claim. We formally collaborate with leading overseas Implementation partners for their projects in the Middle East. Our clients have the reassuance that Synergy aready has partnerships in place in most geographies to support their implemenations outside this region. The Ax Pact Alliance represents over 10% of all Dynamics Ax users licences and Synergy is the selected partner for this region, This brings cosniderable benefit to our customers.
Global Coverage AxPact is constantly growing and now comprises of 30 of the most highly proven and respected Microsoft Dynamics AX partners in the World. Together we provide expertise, delivery and support capability to over 80 different countries making AxPact a true international solution provider. Every AxPact customer benefits from our combined knowledge, resources, solutions and coverage. AxPact has delivered and supported Microsoft Dynamics AX for multi-site, multi-national clients since 2001 To ensure your international roll out of Microsoft Dynamics AX is a complete success, there are very strict criteria to all AxPact Members and constant monitoring of their performance to ensure we always exceed our clients’ expectations. All members take measures to ensure they follow a uniform set of guidelines and procedures and use the same internal methodologies
….100 Microsoft Dynamics AX implementations per year, 18 languages and strong success statistics for delivered projects. This is due to the careful selection and management of the members. AxPact’s sales statistics and track record of successful delivery to date, affirm their position as a trustworthy company to work with on international projects. “Wim Jansen
Partner Lead MBS International
- Today, AxPact accounts for more than 10% of ALL AX projects worldwide. -
Dynamics Ax SaaS model from Synergy Software Systems for the Middle East, U.A.E,
April 17th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Microsoft Dynamics AX in the Cloud
Dynamics AX is Microsoft’s enterprise-level ERP solution, with broad applications across most every vertical. While an ERP investment can be a costly undertaking for most businesses, our cloud offering for Dynamics AX comes at a much smaller up front and overall cost.
ERP Agility = Cloud
The name of the game in AX (and ERP in general) is “agility,” and by placing Dynamics in the Cloud, you vastly increase the agility of your ERP system to adapt to your business. You may:
- Sell off companies
- buy new companies
- win or lose contracts
- have variable seasonality
- have project based business with variable manning
- reduce staff by automation
So, your licence requirements (and the support costs) and hardware capability should also be able to vary. Organizations become more dispersed, and the size and shape of an enterprise changes quickly in a changing economy, so putting your ERP solution in the cloud simply makes more sense as it delivers true flexibility.
In the Cloud add/subtract users monthly (and adjust costs accordingly), and also deliver ERP power to everyone in the organization, no matter where they be and no matter what kind of device they may be using. Maybe you need 50 extra storemen during annual stock check for one period only. Maybe extra staff for year-end sales, or for an unusually large project, or for the harvest season. Maybe you close for month in the summer, or you decide to outsource or subcontract, or to bring back in house.
What the Cloud Adds to Dynamics AX
The entire point behind an investment in an ERP platform as comprehensive as Dynamics AX is that it can drive value across an entire enterprise, improving how an organization manages financials, people, production, processes, business intelligence and more.
Synergy Software Systems hosting partner was “born” in the Cloud as a pure software-as-a-service (saas) provider more than 14 years ago. The infrastructure is built on the Microsoft stack, with full support for Linux-based applications.
Our offering is used by hundreds of thousands of customers enjoying the true flexibility of the Cloud across the entire world, and we mean THE WORLD. In 2011, Microsoft chose our provider as its Dynamics ERP Hosting Partner of the Year. Why? Because no one does it better.
With staff and data centers across the globe—this is the only Cloud provider with a real global footprint.
We put security first, both internally (being SAS70 Type II certified since 2006) and externally, with infrastructure housed in Tier 3 data centers, offering the industry’s highest physical protection standards.
The service is supplied from a shared platform, and accessed through a small client on each user’s workstation. The application icons simply appear both in the Windows start menu and on the desktop. From there, the Microsoft Dynamics AX client application can easily be launched.
Integration with the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access and Outlook) automatically synchronizes. All configuration and customization can be performed through the Microsoft AX interface.
Delivers True Flexibility
Security, reliability, and global reach are definitely concerns for many companies when they think about moving software and/or services to the Cloud. The main driver pushing them to the Cloud has always been flexibility. However, flexibility is not just a technology integration issue: it’s a BUSINESS issue.
A business must be able to scale up, or down quickly, and cannot afford to pay for things it doesn’t use, like software licenses on machines that sit silent, which are critical components in lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).
With the Cloud and SaaSplaza, lower TCO is assured, because technology is no longer a capital investment; it’s a flexible operating cost.
Some companies offer you freedom and flexibility and then the first thing they do is make you sign a 1 to 3 year contract.! Not us. We offer month-to-month commitments, starting with as little as 1 user and scaling… ‘How “flexible” is a platform when a customer is tied to it for years?’
A Cloud Service, Not a Server
We would like you to understand that the Cloud is not simply a place for hosting a solution, but a necessary component of a solution. Some companies offer you “the cloud” and then, in essence, sell you a hosting server. We ensure that you not only have the physical, and hard disk space and memory you need, but also support and service, 24x7x365.
We provide a full service, not just a server.
Our Service Level Agreement, we proudly place alongside any other in the world.
For the server and application It includes:
- Up time guarantee of 99.9%–not just for the infrastructure, but for application availability
- Capacity management: proactive action for scaling up the infrastructure
- Responsibility for back-up every day/week and month
- Disaster recovery
- Operational management of the infrastructure
- Maintenance of infrastructure (security, operating system management, hardware and software renewal, etc.) and middleware software components
- Technical application management to secure uptime.
- Proactive monitoring availability, security, capacity, continuity and critical business processes
- Annual extended SSAE16 (US) and ISAE E3402 (International) certifications for the fifth year in a row
We also provide office hour telephone support for functional end users of the application and back to back escalation to Microsoft if needed.
The Microsoft Stack is the Foundation for our Cloud Platform. Cloud control is now made easier with all virtualized servers and applications on the Microsoft platform, which delivers better performance and increased—and easy—self-service.
The Benefits of Building on Hyper-V & System Center
With Microsoft Hyper-V, we have a high availability platform that enables us to quickly and smoothly roll out servers and software through an automated process. With Microsoft and Hyper-V, we ensure that your Cloud platform is FULLY supported by Microsoft.
Management and monitoring are comprehensive and stretch from server environment to the application level, specifically pertaining to Dynamics Ax and CRM applications.
With System Center, we simplify management via designated modules. Rolling out a new server or a new application can be done with just a few mouse clicks.
Hyper-V also delivers the added advantage of possessing a more efficient, performance enhancing memory management than other systems. Should one of the virtual servers need more memory space then it can borrow some from other servers on the same bare metal which are have spare capacity. Which means better response and uptime.
Another important advantage lies with the System Center self-service tools, which enables us to monitor environments on a comprehensive online dashboard, print reports, etc.
Building exclusively on the Microsoft stack enables us to give us an extremely powerful cloud environment.
We cna also provide option sot host or a true SaaS model for SharePoint and Exchange Server
Ax 2012 RU 8 – for Process, and for Project timesheets
April 14th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Following last week’s release of Rollup 8 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Service Pack 1 Rollup 8 for Process Industries 3.1 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Service Pack 1 is available for immediate download .
For more information on Rollup 8 and to download, please refer to the following knowledge base articles.
KB2677618: Rollup 8 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1
KB2678990: Rollup 8 for Process Industries 3.1 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1
KB2678991: Rollup 8 for Project Time Management for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1
KB2678992: Rollup 8 for Professional Services Automation for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1
SQL 2012 is released
April 10th, 2012 by Stephen Jones No comments »Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2012 for purchase and download. SQL Server 2012 delivers a new set of capabilities for mission-critical workloads, business intelligence and hybrid IT across traditional datacenters and public and private clouds. This includes:
- SQL Server AlwaysOn, a new high availability solution delivering increased application availability, lower TCO and ease of use.
- xVelocity, in-memory technologies significantly boost data warehouse and analytics performance by up to 100x.
- Power View, a web-based, highly interactive, data visualization and presentation solution designed to enable business users and decision makers to quickly discover meaningful insights from their data.
- Data integration and management, new and enhanced tools to deliver credible, consistent data to the right users at the right time, including new SQL Server Data Quality Services and enhanced Master Data Services.
- Enhanced PowerPivot functionalities enable customers to leverage new advanced analytic capabilities and further ease of use while still working within the familiar tools provided by Excel.
- The new Business Intelligence (BI) Semantic Model provides a single, scalable model for BI applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards.
- SQL Server Data Tools, a new tool that unifies SQL Server and cloud SQL Azure development for both professional database and application developers.
For a deep dive on all things SQL Server 2012, check out the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event. All content from the Virtual Launch Event will be available until June 30, 2012. The event features 30+ webcasts from SQL Server 2012 experts in addition to a number of other multimedia features from Microsoft partners.
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