Best of 2017: What Microsoft Dynamics 365/AX experts taught us about technology, process, and project management trends

We begin to wrap up the year in Microsoft Dynamics by looking back at the best expert insights of 2017, as published on MSDW.  For Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition (D365FOE), formerly known as Dynamics AX, 2017 was a year in which Microsoft stressed its rapidly growing list of go-lives and the product team's close connection to Microsoft broader cloud technology direction.

As the articles below illustrate, MSDW contributors who work on and write about AX and D365FOE continue to push their expertise forward, in step with the product, on a range of issues. Topics below range from supply chain and finance capabilities to project management, regulatory compliance, BI, and automation.

What's to come in 2018? There has been plenty of uncertainty in the Dynamics ecosystem this year, but virtually none of it has touched on AX and D365FOE. The product continues to be seen as a bedrock component of Microsoft's business applications strategy. And as Microsoft Commercial and Enterprise CVP and CFO Dave O'Hara told analysts recently, Dynamics is "our biggest opportunity for growth and I think it's [our] biggest opportunity for good healthy gross margin."

And from the MSDW editorial team, we want to wish our deepest thanks to those D365FOE and AX experts who took the time to share their ideas, experiences, and best practices with our readers in 2017. To our readers, we appreciate you making these articles our most well received contributed pieces of the year.

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