This article describes how Dynamics AX Virtual Company and Table Collection work. We will also discuss how to move data from normal company to virtual company when you introduce virtual company in an existing AX implementation.
Virtual Company: Dynamics AX stores data as per company in tables. However, there might be occasions when you want to share data across companies, like country, state, zip codes, etc.  This sharing of data is achieved by creating a virtual company and storing data in this virtual company.  Normal companies are then configured to read/write data from this virtual company.  The only purpose of virtual company is to [read more...]

For the first posting in the Dynamics AX Development blog, we will discuss a very important and useful Dynamics Ax feature, Global Address Book. This article provides good information for both functional and technical consultants.
Note: This article is for advanced Dynamics Ax users. Good knowledge of Dynamics Ax and SQL server is required.

Global Address Book: A mechanism to share organization details, mainly communication and addresses, between different business entities in the company. For example, you may have a customer which is also a vendor; in this case there would be data redundancy or unnecessary duplication of address data if you had to enter the [read more...]