For Dynamics AX Users, Bottomline’s Document Management Solution May Be the Add-On They Never Knew Was There

by Linda Rosencrance
published August 4, 2010

Microsoft Dynamics AX customers know generating and delivering transactional documents such as invoices, payments and purchase orders helps them compete more effectively in a global marketplace.  But in a crowded document management market, customers look for something that stands out.

"Our differentiator is ease of use," says Chris Luoma, director of product marketing at payment and invoice automation specialists Bottomline Technologies. "In the AX world, we have two classes of [document management] competitors. The first are those that do things inside AX itself, which usually requires a lot of custom programming, and a lot of coding. And then there are others that offer solutions that are somewhat similar to what we do."

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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AX Documnt management - User view

On August 6th, 2010 martincee22@hot... said:

I've been using Bottomline Create!Form document management suite since April 2009. Initially simply to turn AX Reports into professional customer facing documents - this element alone will have saved many hours of expensive development time.

I then worked on my second AX contract from September 2009 to July 2010 where I fully implemented Create!Form application. The project involved the following:-

25 professional customer facing documents.
2 data extracts for a third party pining and document distribution centre.
7 different purchase orders the correct one selected based on data from the AX report
Emailing documents picking the recipient and subject from the AX report.
Controlling the behaviour of the Create!Form application by using parameters set within AX
Two Document queues one for normal printing the other for processing batch jobs.

We really pushed the application an I can see the value Bottomline document management can bring to any Dynamics AX implementation.

I am currently out of contract and available to help AX resellers and end users drive the maximum value from the the Create!Form application. I also have some knowledge of X++ having developed a number of AX reports during my last contract.

If anyone I interested in my services please do not hesitate to contact me.
Martin Chatterton
Create!form / AX Development Consultant
(07777) 641848
Martincee22@hotmail.com