Infrastructure

With the last versions of Dynamics AX, the application platform has grown rapidly into the market for global wide enterprises, and as a consequence the requirements for the Dynamics AX infrastructure are growing in complexity and size.

The Dynamics AX platform is no longer an application that can be installed onto a single server or a few servers. There are a number of dependent applications and services that must be considered when scaling, planning and building a reliable, secure and supportable Dynamics AX infrastructure.

In a core Dynamics AX installation you must consider and plan for:

• Dynamics AX object server
• Database server
• Reporting Services for standard and customize reporting needs
• Analysis Services for business intelligence needs
• Web server for the Enterprise Portal
• Web server for the Application Integration Framework
• Help server
• Backup and restore strategy
• Custom integrations

Additionally, companies are rarely capable of utilizing Dynamics AX without custom modifications or third party vendor modules. Running a development environment for Dynamics AX you must also consider:

• Development, test and user acceptance test servers
• Source control, for example a Team Foundation Server
• Build and deployment servers

AXspecialists have some of the most experienced infrastructure specialists you will find outside Microsoft. We have planned, designed and installed numerous large scale Dynamics AX installations from version 4.0, 2009 and 2012.

We can help you with: 

• Infrastructure assessment, planning and best practices
• Infrastructure/Data center design, setup and installation