From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: SharePoint Product Catalog Retail; AX 2012 and PowerPivot: Time and Attendance Registration; Hidden Compile Errors

Introducing the SharePoint Product Catalog site for Dynamics AX Retail: In a previous blog post, Microsoft's Pete Ward looked at how changes made in Dynamics AX are directly reflected in your external facing website. In order to start to understand how this works, Ward says you need to understand some of the components of the Dynamics AX Commerce platform. 

"Dynamics AX Commerce uses two SharePoint site collections, connected through SharePoint 2013's Cross-Site Collection Publishing feature. One is for publishing content and the other is for authoring content," Ward says. "The authoring content component is called the Retail Product Catalog site and it holds products, product catalogs and associated information that are then used in your external website."

In his post, Ward, a Retail Solution Architect for Microsoft's Center of Excellence EMEA team, walks you through some of the features of the Product Catalog and how useful and simple it is to manage your website data.

AX 2012 - PowerPivot Date Dimension Query: Join  Brandon George as he spends some time building on the topics that he's been covering recently - the value of PowerPivot and how Dynamics AX customers can create true Personal BI artifacts with it. A key topic that is important to understand when looking at creating such BI artifacts is around the use of a Date Dimension Table. Brandon says you can find out more about this topic, specific to PowerPivot from the following resource: