

Production – bills of materials, manufacturing tracking.Master Planning (resources) – purchase and production planning.Inventory Management – inventory management and valuation.Accounts Payable – purchase orders, goods received into inventory.Accounts Receivable – order entry, shipping, and invoicing.Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – business relations contact and maintenance (customers, vendors, and leads).Bank Management – receives and pays cash.General Ledger – ledger, sales tax, currency, and fixed assets features.Microsoft Dynamics AX contains 19 core modules: Traditional core (since Axapta 2.5) MDCC or Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen was once the primary development center for Dynamics AX.

This has a slightly different licensing price than Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. An additional version is available focusing on Retail branded as Dynamics 365 for Retail. This version lasted only a few months, though, as Dynamics AX was rebranded Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations in October 2016, and once more as Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in July 2017. This update was a major revision with a completely new UI delivered through a browser-based HTML5 client, and initially only available as a cloud-hosted application. The newest version, released in February 2016, dropped the nomenclature of year and version and was simply called AX, although was widely known as AX7. Dynamics AX is used in over 20,000 organizations of all sizes, worldwide. It was made available and supported in more than 30 countries and 25 languages. In September 2011, Microsoft released version AX 2012. Microsoft acquired the combined company in July 2002. Damgaard Data merged with Navision Software A/S in 2000 to form NavisionDamgaard, later named Navision A/S. IBM returned all rights in the product to Damgaard Data shortly after the release of Version 1.5. Axapta was initially released in March 1998 in the Danish and U.S. Microsoft Dynamics AX was originally developed as a collaboration between IBM and Danish Damgaard Data as IBM Axapta. In 2018, its thick-client interface was removed and the web product was rebranded as Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations as a part of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 suite. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family. Microsoft Dynamics AX was one of Microsoft's enterprise resource planning software products.
