Top 10 Reasons to Buy
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Powerfully Simple
1.	
Achieve Fast Time to Value
With prebuilt industry capabilities for
manufacturing, distribution, services, retail,
and Public Sector, Microsoft Dynamics
AX 2012 helps you meet your business
requirements by deploying your solution
quickly and delivering results right away.
Streamline your organization end-to-end
with rich ERP capabilities, including human
capital management, financials, and
compliance management. Support specific
business requirements easily with packaged
solutions from the worldwide Microsoft®
Partner Network.
2.	
Grow Your Global Solution
Removing barriers to international growth is
essential for business development. Microsoft
Dynamics AX 2012 enables you to expand
your operations to new geographies with built-
in, country-specific localizations in a single
solution to meet regulatory requirements
for 36 countries.1
Enable entities across your
multisite, global organization to share the
same data, business rules, and processes in
order to harmonize and streamline business
practices. Also support your business growth by
easily adding users and transactions, as well as
configuring more complex business scenarios.
3.	
Work Smart and Fast
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 can help
you improve productivity by providing
RoleTailored access to information, tasks,
and business processes along with powerful
business intelligence. Gain deeper insight into
critical business data across your organization
with relevant performance indicators, self-
service business intelligence, and reporting in
key business areas.
4.	
Drive New Business
Take advantage of new business
opportunities by improving the insight
into your business, and having the ability to
implement change more easily. Microsoft
Dynamics AX 2012 offers unlimited views
on your business, giving you the visibility
you need. Enhanced modeling capabilities,
such as the Organizational Model or
workflow, then helps you manage changes
in the structure and business processes
of your organization, and fosters
innovation with a central business process
repository, including capabilities for five
major industries.
Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 is a single, powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for
enterprises. It is simple to learn and use, and delivers value faster by supporting industry-specific
and operational business processes across your global enterprise. With this highly adaptable and
easy-to-scale solution, you can quickly take advantage of new business opportunities, reduce risk,
and differentiate your business to meet new requirements. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 drives user
involvement and innovation, unlocking greater productivity and providing immediate insight through
a RoleTailored user experience and easy access to relevant information and processes.
“Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 allows us
to collaborate within our organization
and with our constituents…using built-in
controls and fund/encumbrance accounting
capabilities to ensure compliance with
public sector requirements…and using
out-of the-box Business Analytics and
Intelligence…so executives can make
effective decisions in real time.”
– Mike Bailey,
Director of Finance and Information
Services, Redmond, WA
5.	
Support Business Today
and Tomorrow
Choose a flexible deployment model that
best supports your organization and can
easily be adjusted to meet your changing
business demands: on-premises or in the
cloud. Easily complement your installation
with cloud-based services and take
advantageoftheflexibleMicrosoftDynamics
AX 2012 solution architecture that enables
incremental implementations, changes, or
upgrades. Choose the governance model
that best fits your organization: centrally
managed, decentrally managed, or a
combination of both.
6.	
Gain a Competitive Edge
Differentiate your business from competition.
The ability to rapidly adapt your system to
support your unique needs can give you a
significant edge over your competitors. The
model-driven, layered architecture allows
you to develop and maintain unique business
processes easily and enables a relatively easy
upgrade to new releases.
7.	
Get Everyone on Board
Employees want to use a solution with a
familiar and intuitive user experience that
makes their jobs easier, and is simple to use
and learn. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
enables people to find, sort, visualize, and
use information through an easy-to-use user
interface that looks and works like Microsoft
Office. Work easily with everyday tools by
sharing data between Microsoft Dynamics AX
2012 and Microsoft Office 2010.
8.	
Connect and Collaborate
Easily connect employees, customers,
suppliers, and partners through integrated
self-service collaboration capabilities.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables you to
streamline basic supply chain collaboration
with self-service, Microsoft SharePoint®–
based vendor, customer, and employee
portals, and end-to-end business process
integration through Sites Services.2
Simplify
advanced supply chain collaboration
with adaptable web services and share
information easily by using collaboration
tools such as Microsoft LyncTM and by
creating SharePoint collaboration sites
directly from within Microsoft Dynamics
AX 2012.
9.	
Lower Your TCO
In addition to improved productivity gains,
lower your total cost of ownership (TCO)
through simplified life cycle management and
quick installations. Use Microsoft Dynamics
ERP RapidStart Services to help ensure a
quick and reliable setup and configuration
of your ERP solution. In alignment with the
RoleTailored design of Microsoft Dynamics AX
2012, the simplified Business Value Licensing
model ensures that you buy the exact number
of licenses you need—no more, no less—with
options to easily add more licenses as your
business grows.
10.	
Leverage the Power of the
Microsoft Platform
It’s our fundamental value proposition: The
interaction of ERP, business and productivity
applications, communications solutions, and
the underlying technology platform—that
works on-premises or in the cloud. We call
it pervasive interoperability. With Microsoft
Dynamics AX 2102, you get a business solution
from Microsoft that is backed by an ongoing
commitment to research, development,
and innovation. Combined with a global
ecosystem of specialized partners, Microsoft
Dynamics AX 2012 uses the power of the
Microsoft platform to deliver a powerfully
simple solution.
1
Visit our website at http://bit.ly/AX_Country_Specific for information regarding availability in your country.
2
Check with your local partner regarding availability of Sites Services in your country.
For more information about
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, visit: www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax
© 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Microsoft, Lync, Microsoft Dynamics, the Microsoft Dynamics logo, and
SharePoint are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
“For us, it’s all about agility – if we can’t deliver
in weeks what used to take months, we’re
holding back the business.”
– Greg Smith,
Chief Information Officer,
Royal Canadian Mint

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  • 1.
    Top 10 Reasonsto Buy Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Powerfully Simple 1. Achieve Fast Time to Value With prebuilt industry capabilities for manufacturing, distribution, services, retail, and Public Sector, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 helps you meet your business requirements by deploying your solution quickly and delivering results right away. Streamline your organization end-to-end with rich ERP capabilities, including human capital management, financials, and compliance management. Support specific business requirements easily with packaged solutions from the worldwide Microsoft® Partner Network. 2. Grow Your Global Solution Removing barriers to international growth is essential for business development. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables you to expand your operations to new geographies with built- in, country-specific localizations in a single solution to meet regulatory requirements for 36 countries.1 Enable entities across your multisite, global organization to share the same data, business rules, and processes in order to harmonize and streamline business practices. Also support your business growth by easily adding users and transactions, as well as configuring more complex business scenarios. 3. Work Smart and Fast Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 can help you improve productivity by providing RoleTailored access to information, tasks, and business processes along with powerful business intelligence. Gain deeper insight into critical business data across your organization with relevant performance indicators, self- service business intelligence, and reporting in key business areas. 4. Drive New Business Take advantage of new business opportunities by improving the insight into your business, and having the ability to implement change more easily. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 offers unlimited views on your business, giving you the visibility you need. Enhanced modeling capabilities, such as the Organizational Model or workflow, then helps you manage changes in the structure and business processes of your organization, and fosters innovation with a central business process repository, including capabilities for five major industries. Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 is a single, powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for enterprises. It is simple to learn and use, and delivers value faster by supporting industry-specific and operational business processes across your global enterprise. With this highly adaptable and easy-to-scale solution, you can quickly take advantage of new business opportunities, reduce risk, and differentiate your business to meet new requirements. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 drives user involvement and innovation, unlocking greater productivity and providing immediate insight through a RoleTailored user experience and easy access to relevant information and processes. “Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 allows us to collaborate within our organization and with our constituents…using built-in controls and fund/encumbrance accounting capabilities to ensure compliance with public sector requirements…and using out-of the-box Business Analytics and Intelligence…so executives can make effective decisions in real time.” – Mike Bailey, Director of Finance and Information Services, Redmond, WA
  • 2.
    5. Support Business Today andTomorrow Choose a flexible deployment model that best supports your organization and can easily be adjusted to meet your changing business demands: on-premises or in the cloud. Easily complement your installation with cloud-based services and take advantageoftheflexibleMicrosoftDynamics AX 2012 solution architecture that enables incremental implementations, changes, or upgrades. Choose the governance model that best fits your organization: centrally managed, decentrally managed, or a combination of both. 6. Gain a Competitive Edge Differentiate your business from competition. The ability to rapidly adapt your system to support your unique needs can give you a significant edge over your competitors. The model-driven, layered architecture allows you to develop and maintain unique business processes easily and enables a relatively easy upgrade to new releases. 7. Get Everyone on Board Employees want to use a solution with a familiar and intuitive user experience that makes their jobs easier, and is simple to use and learn. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables people to find, sort, visualize, and use information through an easy-to-use user interface that looks and works like Microsoft Office. Work easily with everyday tools by sharing data between Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Office 2010. 8. Connect and Collaborate Easily connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners through integrated self-service collaboration capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 enables you to streamline basic supply chain collaboration with self-service, Microsoft SharePoint®– based vendor, customer, and employee portals, and end-to-end business process integration through Sites Services.2 Simplify advanced supply chain collaboration with adaptable web services and share information easily by using collaboration tools such as Microsoft LyncTM and by creating SharePoint collaboration sites directly from within Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. 9. Lower Your TCO In addition to improved productivity gains, lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) through simplified life cycle management and quick installations. Use Microsoft Dynamics ERP RapidStart Services to help ensure a quick and reliable setup and configuration of your ERP solution. In alignment with the RoleTailored design of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, the simplified Business Value Licensing model ensures that you buy the exact number of licenses you need—no more, no less—with options to easily add more licenses as your business grows. 10. Leverage the Power of the Microsoft Platform It’s our fundamental value proposition: The interaction of ERP, business and productivity applications, communications solutions, and the underlying technology platform—that works on-premises or in the cloud. We call it pervasive interoperability. With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2102, you get a business solution from Microsoft that is backed by an ongoing commitment to research, development, and innovation. Combined with a global ecosystem of specialized partners, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 uses the power of the Microsoft platform to deliver a powerfully simple solution. 1 Visit our website at http://bit.ly/AX_Country_Specific for information regarding availability in your country. 2 Check with your local partner regarding availability of Sites Services in your country. For more information about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, visit: www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Microsoft, Lync, Microsoft Dynamics, the Microsoft Dynamics logo, and SharePoint are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. “For us, it’s all about agility – if we can’t deliver in weeks what used to take months, we’re holding back the business.” – Greg Smith, Chief Information Officer, Royal Canadian Mint