Enterprise
Application
File system
App Server(s)
Enterprise
Infrastructure
AOS Services
MorphX
MSMQ
WCF adapter
Focusing on the right integrations
across the application portfolio
increase business value, drive
visibility and effectiveness, and
decrease operational cost
structures.
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Reduce the time and cost of custom development by using and adapting the
built-in services and functionality of Microsoft Dynamics AX.
For increased agility, create reusable components based on the core Microsoft
Dynamics AX functional types.
Data quality is essential to an effective ERP solution. Spend the time to define
data structures before starting to build a solution.
Focusing on the right integrations across the application portfolio increases
business value, drives visibility and effectiveness, and decreases operational
cost structures
Document Services
Custom Services
Service definition and
data contract
Auto-generated based on underlying query and options
entered in the AIF Document Service Wizard
Defined by the developer
Transport protocols
Any supported adapter (HTTP, WCF, MSMQ, File)
Any supported adapter (HTTP, WCF, MSMQ, File)
Customizations
Entire document service can be customized
Entire customer service can be customized
Entity complexity
Any query complexity including query with dimensions,
polymorphism, date-effective information content
Suitable when the entity complexity is low, but the
developer can write the code to handle any complexity as
well
Business process support
None, document service is data bound due to the tight
relation between query and service
Yes, the customer service is designed to handle this
Performance
Record-based insert and updates with option to run
inbound message processing in parallel
Record-based and whatever is defined by the developers
including parallel processing
Microsoft Office Add-in
support
Built-in support for consuming document services for
updating data
No preinstalled integrations
Preinstalled interfaces
More than 75 Document services (AxD)
Non
Other
Data is inserted directly into application tables
Can be staged or inserted directly into appl. tables
Type
Asynchronous – read/write
All
Synchronous – read/write
Complex
Simple
Method
Dynamics AX
Application
Application
Dynamics AX
AX class -> Proxy -> Application
Application -> ? -> AX Custom Services
AX Document Services (AxD) -> AX class > Proxy -> Application
Application -> ? -> AX Document Services
(AxD)
AX Document Services (AxD) -> MSMQ
(< 5mb) -> BizTalk -> WCF Adapter ->
Application
Application -> WCF Adapter -> BizTalk ->
MSMQ (< 5mb) > AX Document Services
(AxD)
AX Document Services (AxD) -> File Share
(> 5mb) -> BizTalk ->WCF Adapter ->
Application
Application -> WCF Adapter -> BizTalk ->
File Share (> 5mb) > AX Document
Services (AxD)
Retail
Microsoft
Retail Stores
Company
Store
Services
IEB
XBOX
Russian
Payroll
Recruiting
(Rainier/v7.0)
Microsoft
Business
Solutions
MS Expense
HSG
Microsoft IT
Microsoft
Consulting
Services
HCM
Financial
MS Financing
SRM
GFS/MSN
MFG
Microsoft
Operation
Puerto Rico
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