Office Live Store Manager

Now here comes the curious cat, and in looking I came across something very cool. Check out this ZDnet Post: Office Live Store Manager link

From the post:
"“The store manager portion of Office Live enables this small business to have an online store tightly incorporated within their website with the minimum of fuss. Prior to this they had integration with Paypal and had some complicated ASP pages to get around the problem of selling online - hardly something a small business wants to be doing! This encapsulates what Microsoft is trying to achieve with Office Live: a one-stop-shop for all online activities for small business following the mantra of easy to use,” Senior explained."

So this is targeting small businesses who sale online possibly with paypal, and need a more tighly integrated way of doing commerce online. This is an amazing step forward, and a move that is placing more and more emphasis on Office as the "Front End" for the information worker. Now granted this is targeted at small business. The side affect though, is one can't help but think about this usage and how Office will further be integrated as the front end for many information worker processes / experinces in the not to distant future with Dynamics AX.

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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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Microsoft Dynamics Client for Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server

Well it was talked about at convergence, and now it's on the price list. Microsoft Dynamics Client for Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server is here now, and ready for use. Check out the following links:

(*note: All require PartnerSource access)

Main Link: Main Post

PR: Press Release
FAQ: FAQ
PPT: Power Point Pres.
Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet


So in short the goal of this is to:

"Create Microsoft Office system-based business applications that are specific to the needs of your organization"

This means making use of the Dynamics Data Toolbar to query Dynamics AX data from word, excel, and infopath for usage in documents. To use Excel and SharePoint to interact with business logic and data. To make use of FRx drill down ability with Office documents. Take the Snap in program and extend it to the needs of your or your client. I am Really excited about all the possibilities that can be achieved with this. If you are interested in finding out what this means in more detail, and how this can help your company, well stop by Sunrise Technologies, Inc. web site and leave your contact information asking about this: Sunrise Technologies, Inc. Web Site. We are one of the top leaders in Dynamics AX, and also how we can turn office and your information worker task into streamlined business processes with Dynamcis AX and Office 2007 system! :-)

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