The Microsoft Dynamics AX User Group announces a new dimension to the User Group’s member benefits, AXUG Collaborate. This new online community extends the value of User Group membership by offering a new one-stop-shop for all things AXUG, such as connecting with other members, keeping

Data Masons welcomes Tip Top Poultry as a new customer who purchased Vantage Point EDI for Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Based in Marietta, GA, Tip Top is the largest baking and stewing hen marketer in the United States and services most of the national grocery stores with either Tip Top brands or private label product.

Given Data Masons’ expertise within the food and beverage industry and the company’s Certified for Microsoft Dynamics AX distinction, Tip Top selected Vantage Point EDI for Microsoft Dynamics AX to handle their EDI requirements that are key to its successful trading partner network. With the solution’s unique technology model, the company will be able to integrate the solution with AX 2012 without any costly or time intensive ERP customizations…

Day 2 of the Dynamics AX Tech Conference provided a jam-packed morning keynote that covered a number of topics centered around People, Process and Technology and how each were important to a successful ERP implementation.

Speakers included Steve Weiskircher Chairman and CIO at Fanatics, Inc., who talked about the company’s recent migration to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Weiskircher discussed the challenges that they faced and the success along the way.

Following Weiskircher, Tao Wang, Group Program Manager at Microsoft, presented the upcoming lifecycle services tool that will be made available soon. The tool provides project planning aides to help guide users through the full lifecycle of an implementation. With its Window 8 “metro” appearance it focuses on improving the process of the implementation. The customizable process flows make sure that no step is forgotten. It is currently in beta and is anticipated to be available in the first half of 2013.

The keynote concluded with Mike Ehrenberg, CTO Microsoft Business Solutions, providing a glimpse…

Today is the last day of the AXUG Summit educational program, as the Expo Hall wrapped up yesterday. It’s Friday and it’s been a busy week, but today’s agenda is packed with informative sessions and the opportunity to join the Microsoft Town Hall. As we end of the week, let’s try and take some of the spirit that Fred Studer, General Manager for Microsoft Dynamics, shared with us yesterday during the AXUG General Session. What a personality, a great addition to the program! If you missed Fred…

If you’re part of the Dynamics AX Partner Community and in Seattle, I hope to see you at the AX Partner Connections (AXPC) event tomorrow, October 16th at the Washington State Convention Center. As part of the AXUG Summit 2012 agenda, this particular event will feature Dynamics AX 2012 readiness, roundtable discussions for VARs and ISVs, and networking opportunities for all of us partners and with members of the Microsoft Dynamics AX team.

Not only am I excited to attend this event, but I’m also looking forward to participating in one of the roundtable discussions. Fellow Data Masons colleague and ERP/ EDI expert Glenn McPeak will also be…

Need an added boost to get to the Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference, in Bellevue, WA, October 22nd – 25th? Register by October 20th and Microsoft may randomly pick you as the winner among all qualified attendees to experience a formidable racing experience in a Formula 1 car. Now if you are the winner, you do have to find your own way to France to take advantage of this prize, but everything else you’ll need in Provence, Southern France will be provided.

More reasons to join the Technical Conference:

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Data Masons welcomes Unwired Technology as a new customer who purchased Vantage Point EDI for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

Unwired Technology develops and manufactures infrared cordless headphones available for automobile use. With Vantage Point EDI, they will have one of the most powerful EDI solutions available for managing and integrating the Planning Schedule (830/DELFOR) and Planning Schedule Release (862/DELJIT) document set. The company will also…

What’s the scoop on the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 release? To give you more insight on what to expect, the Microsoft Dynamics AX product team blog, Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX, has started publishing a Preview Blog Series. The series is planned to be around 14 posts that offer the Dynamics AX community insight into the key new technical and functional capabilities that will be available with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2.

The 2nd post in this series discusses considerations when evaluating a single instance deployment given that one of the key objectives for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 is to further improve support of a single global instance ERP implementation when it is the preferred implementation option. The post reveals just how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will support single instance deployments…

Today Brandon George featured one of our interview-based articles, “To the Cloud with EDI for Microsoft Dynamics” on his Dynamics AX Blog. Checkout the complete article to see how Data Masons is responding to some of the most popular questions / concerns around EDI for the Cloud, including:

1. When it comes cloud solutions, scale & agility are two attributes that typically take focus in people’s minds.

2. How can Data Masons speak to the security that helps govern within the application, as well as access points for the EDI solution in general? How was security considered…

Kalas Manufacturing Joins Data Masons’ Customers Simplifying EDI with Vantage Point EDI for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Kalas Manufacturing, Inc. of Lancaster, PA is a leading producer of wire and cable products and is leveraging Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to power its business.

Increasing the power of AX 2012, the company will be implementing the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics AX solution, Vantage Point EDI, including Data Masons’ Universal Data Translator (UDT). With the UDT, data is transformed to or from any EDI, ASCII, XML, or ODBC data source dynamically, without intermediate files. The result for Kalas Manufacturing will be high-performance data transformation, along with…