Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services is Live

Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services are designed to manage and optimize customer implementations – powered by Azure.

The customer creates project workspaces for implementation, upgrade and maintenance activities, and will invite implementation experts from partner organizations and Microsoft into these workspaces for the execution of related activities.

Partners will be able to create projects for learning and presales purposes. This enables partners to build out expertise around Lifecycle Services, and demonstrate this in sales cycles. Take it for a test drive @ lifecycleservices.dynamics.com.

COLLABORATION WORKSPACE Customer-managed collaboration workspace Cloud-based, secure environment Project management using SureStep or other methodologies Project-specific dashboard Tools & data that connect multiple lifecycle phases to enable better decision making by key stakeholders Business process modeler Aligns industry processes (APQC) with process maps for Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Create cross-functional flowcharts based on rich metadata. Map processes & perform fit-gap analysis. Integration between BPM & RapidStart. Quickly generate documents and flowcharts using TaskRecorder (KB#2863182). CODE & UPGRADE ANALYSIS Leverages a cloud-based rule engine to analyze code and identify potential best practice, performance and upgradeability issues.

Generates actionable reports in Excel & HTML that can be imported into MorphX IDE as actionable to-do’s for developers. License sizing estimator Estimate how many licenses you need (CAL) Model the effect of custom roles on license needs. Get automatic CAL-level estimates USAGE PROFILER Model user & batch AX loads. See graphic representation of load volumes. Identify a starting point for infrastructure sizing. Issue search Search a repository of reported, in-progress & fixed issues.

Identify specific code objects & lines of code affected by hotfixes. Get notifications for issue state changes, and new fixes for AX functional areas. DIAGNOSTICS Automate & monitor health checks for AX ecosystem. Collect data from AX environments. Evaluate data against pre-defined rules & health checks. Generate reports to provide monitoring & actionable corrective action summaries.