A Platform for Partners, IT Developers

In addition to an enterprise resource planning application, Dynamics AX is an extensible developer platform. The product provides developer tools, languages, and programming interfaces that partners and other developers can use to tailor the product to customers’ needs and build custom solutions.

Common custom development tasks include the following:

• Customizing and extending Dynamics AX’s business logic, database tables, forms, and reports
• Creating new pages for the product’s Enterprise Portal and modifying or creating new Web Parts that can be used to display Dynamics AX data, forms, or reports in Enterprise Portal pages
• Integrating Dynamics AX with other applications, such as a partner’s Web-based e-commerce application or other internal business applications (Microsoft runs its Puerto Rico media manufacturing facility with Dynamics AX, which exchanges financial data with the company’s central SAP deployment)
• Development of specialized business management solutions for