ERP: An insight on the new capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX
If you’re an IT employee at a large company, chances are you grapple with a host of different user login names and passwords, all while ensuring the right people see the right things at the right time. It’s no easy task—and accidentally granting access to the wrong person or relying on multiple passwords and usernames can add up to serious security vulnerabilities. This is where ERP Security comes in.
Security is a core tenant of any good ERP system, which is why the latest version of Dynamics AX incorporates design enhancements to safeguard permissions, privacy and security of access, making your job easier and your work secure. These enhancements include single sign-on and web only identities, both made possible through a painless deployment process.
Single Sign-On in the Cloud
Dynamics AX resolves the issue of multiple sign-on profiles through its integration with Azure Active Directory, Microsoft’s multi-tenant cloud-based directory and identity management service. Now customers and partners can use a single identity to access the full Dynamics AX system using web-only IDs. With identities managed in the cloud, users can log on to Microsoft applications anywhere, and access multiple Microsoft services—including SharePoint Online, Power BI and Azure SQL—in one seamless experience.
The Azure Active Directory integration also offers financial benefits to enterprise customers who have already invested in on-premises active directory solutions. Instead of replacing the entire system, they can use Active Directories to extend their on-premises directory to the cloud. The single sign-on feature also reduces time and money spent on IT management organisation-wide by safeguarding identities in Azure, Microsoft’s secure cloud environment.
Controlled Access: What You See is What You Get
The overall design of Dynamics AX has been changed to ensure system users only view content to which they have been granted access. Now, what you see is truly what you get. For example, if a designer intends for a certain artefact within the system to only be read by a certain user, Microsoft can now ensure that’s going to be the case. This simplification is appreciated by Microsoft partners who notice it makes development faster and debugging easier.
Deployment Made Simple
Even with all of these new security developments, setting up an ERP system can be daunting. Fortunately, Dynamics AX also offers the flexibility for companies to scale at their own pace, taking some of the complexity out of the customer experience. This simplified, flexible approach is empowered by Dynamics AX’s cloud availability. Servers are deployed in Azure by Microsoft, and setup prerequisites are installed by Microsoft, so it’s almost as easy as clicking a button.
Users will find as Dynamics AX moves to the cloud, so does the Microsoft development team. As Azure continues to develop, the Microsoft development team are working to constantly update features and simplify deployments in order to better serve AX users.
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– Umran Hasan
