Enterprise Portal 4.0 Value Proposition

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Enterprise Portal is the web platform for Microsoft Dynamics AX that is used to web enable existing or new applications and customize them in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Out-of-the-box Enterprise Portal comes with standard set of pages and roles that enables self service scenarios for customers, vendors, business partners and employees to directly access relevant business information and collaborate and conduct business transactions with Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Users can access Enterprise Portal through web browser either inside the company facilities or from a remote location depending on how Enterprise Portal is set up and deployed.

End User Benefits

  • Structured data & unstructured data in one place
    • Transactional Data, KPI, Documents, Discussions, Alerts, Search all in one place
  • Ease of Use – benefits of Single Sign-on (SSO)
  • Personalization
    • Easy to Customize
    • Allows end user level granular customization

Developer Benefits

Drag-n-Drop development

Enhanced Web authoring and development experience

Reduced development effort with out-of-the-box portal services and already available SharePoint web parts for integrating to other systems

Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Object Tree (AOT)/SharePoint integration for rapid application development

Integrated Debugging/Tracing

Easy application integration

ITPro Benefits

Reliable, Scalable and Extensible Windows SharePoint Services platform reduces total cost of ownership

Speeding adoption by using familiar interfaces and tools

Security improvements/encryption

Easy to turn on/turn off modules

Integrated authentication model simplifies account management

Integrated Stack simplifies/unifies administrative tasks across application domains