How will Business Intelligence and Reporting develop?
Microsoft will continue to increase the number of integration points with Microsoft BI and Reporting software. In addition Microsoft will also provide additional APIs that increases the ease of performing BI related functions from inside Microsoft Dynamics AX. What will happen with Microsoft Dynamics AX in relation to Service Strategy? Microsoft Dynamics AX supports consuming standards-based, external web services from within the application. Future releases of Microsoft Dynamics AX will support additional standards to enable additional scenarios. The related programming model will also be extended to further improve the development experience in particular for common scenarios. Moreover, Microsoft Dynamics AX can be exposed through Microsoft Dynamics AX services. Microsoft Dynamics AX can be published e.g. through WCF web services. Additional guidance and mechanisms for standardizing common functionality such as customization and validation will help accelerating the implementation of
