14 DAY TRIAL // Customers that make the jump to Dynamics AX 2012 will be able to benefit from a consistent boost in performance compared to its predecessor. Microsoft has not released any benchmarks comparing Dynamics AX 2012 and Dynamics AX 2009 performance-wise, but the company promised that the latest iteration of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution will perform some tasks up to 20 times faster than the older version.
“We put a lot of effort into improving the performance of the application server in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. We achieved this through some changes to the programming model, which allow the native X++ application code to run in the Microsoft .NET–based environment,” revealed a member of the Microsoft Dynamics AX.
“This detail may be most interesting to developers, but simply put, it makes the application run much, much faster than previous versions.”
According to the software giant, the advantages of Dynamics AX 2012’s superior performance will enable customers to run complex reports and queries in real time.
But in addition to functions running run up to 20 times faster, the Redmond company has also worked to on enhancing scalability.
Not only will Dynamics AX 2012 not require users to wait for batch processes, but it will also enable customers to configure it in order to deal with data-intensive operations without any issues.
“We’ve built Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to scale up by taking advantage of the more powerful processors and server hardware available today. We also built the business management software to scale out by supporting larger databases and configurations with more server and processor hardware,” the Dynamics AX team representative added. “This has huge implications for customers in data-intensive or transaction-intensive industries.”
Watch the video embedded below in order to hear Sri Srinivasan, Principal Program Manager and Architect in the MS Dynamics AX R&D organization talk about the performance and scalability evolution of Dynamics AX 2012.