Microsoft Aims for Increased Adoption with Dynamics AX Light User Licensing

Businesses need solutions that reflect the way people really work. They need to ensure that all their employees have the tools as well as the information they need to do their jobs and to work productively. But sometimes it can be just too expensive for companies to extend the reach of all their systems to each and every employee.

Microsoft's Light User licensing for Dynamics AX attempts to meet these broader employee needs with access the critical business data from AX without a full user license, said Victor Waschtschenko, Dynamics Tech Specialist ERP, Microsoft Corp., in a webinar devoted to the Dynamics AX Light User License.

The Microsoft Dynamics AX Light User is a partial-access license for Dynamics AX, a lower cost way to give employees access to Microsoft Dynamics data, according to the company. Using the Microsoft Dynamics AX Light User license, employees can interact with Microsoft Dynamics financial, human resources, and operational information within the Microsoft Office software they use everyday including Excel, Outlook, and Word, Waschtschenko said.

Businesses want to extend the value of their Dynamics AX investments across their organizations to break down the wall between the back office and the front office and bring more business insight to their user communities, said Waschtschenko.

"This community has typically relied on people inside the wall to get them the information they need to be effective and the processes they require to be productive in their jobs," he said. "They have been supported by a series of disconnected systems or manual procedures, leaving many inefficiencies throughout an organization. This wall has made it difficult for companies to operate at their full potential and made decision making a guessing game in many cases."

And Microsoft is helping them ...