Office SharePoint Designer - Information Worker bliss!

When you think SharePoint, and sites today, you think of a possible long setup process, customizing pages, and fitting things together. The future though is not the most technical aspects, or should I say the code, but the designer of SharePoint itself.

What I mean by this is the new offering of SharePoint Designer with Office 2007 system. Bye-bye we say to FrontPage, and hello SharePoint Designer to take it's place. The goal with this is going to allow Information Workers, or super users to easily create the flows, and collabration sites needed by them, and managed by their IT dept. The future I see here, is the front UI for most information worker processes inside Dynamics AX today!

With this I see custom web parts for achieveing business goals, and out of the box ones as well, that then allow an information worker to talior their SharePoint site experince, targeted for their usage of the business logic, in a mashup of Dynamics AX web parts, Office System documents, and Software + Services offerings. The goal would be to allow the information worker, if they so choose, the abilities to better manage their flows. It makes sense, seeing they own and work the flows everyday right? This would then free up with IT dept. to focus on the next thing, and development of core business logic, vs. UI flows, and interactions. I really see a great deal of things that can be accomplished in the future with SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and the future releases of Dynamics AX.

For now, though, I would recommend looking more and more into the use of SharePoint 2007 and the entire Office 2007 system all together interacting with Dynamics AX as is. It's a bright future, and all kinds of possibilities!

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Link to Office SharePoint Designer Product page

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Role based experinces in Dynamics AX

For a little while now talk as been around creating and using roles inside Dynamics AX to define an information workers experince while using the solution. With this thought I wanted to spend a little time speaking about this with old, current, and future releases and the benefit.

Role based tasking, or UI grouping is not new by any means. With the furthering of UI controls, and ever connected states, the role based information worker concept will really start to come into play as being really a huge benefit. In AX 3.0 days, everyone saw everything in the main menu, out of the box, unless you limited by security. With To-Increase, the ability has been given for AX 3.0 to take and create custom menu's for roles information workers. This was all setup and configuration though, and could be by passed. With DAX 4.0, the same type of ability exist, but still it's more up to the user, and the user's configuration in this matter. With 5.0 security and role based workflows, and UI experinces will come to a could interestion, really for the first time. With Dynamics AX 5.0, role based information worker experinces will exist with designed flows, aligned security, and flowing UI that all focus towards an information workers tasks and goals. With the intro of Microsoft Dynamics Client for Office starting to be pushed more and more, the DAX 5.0 role based information worker experinces will truly take shape to something that flows well for a end user, and that will truly streamline down to the information worker task, vs. just business processes.

So to wrap up, looking ahead roles, and role based information worker experinces will really come about to mean something much, much more in Dynamics AX 5.0!

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