Dynamics Ax: A Guide to Microsoft Axapta

I'm an experienced JD Edwards consultant moving to Axapta and I have not found it easy even after going, or better trying to go through the existing documentation referred by some of the other reviewers. Reading the book was easy and by far the best investment of time and money I have made in Axapta, and I now feel comfortable that I can take it to the next level by myself. Thanks for the book.

I never write reviews and the main reason for doing so is the negative reviews I have seen here. There is no other book or document on Axapta that provides the scope, comprehensiveness and ease of reading you will find in this book. I have been working with Axapta for quite a few years as a developer and consultant and I picked up stuff and found it to be an inexpensive way of refreshing a variety of topics that I don't deal with on a daily basis. If you want to go deeper then this you will have to attend training, and development alone with four modules will set you back that many times 1k USD, so it's hard to beat the book on value for money. Said that, I would really like to see books that pick up where this one leaves off and develop the different topics in detail, especially development. There are obviously a few people out there with a lot of knowledge and I would like to encourage them to share it with us and write a book.

It would have saved me a lot of time, effort and pain if I had had this book when I started. It's easy for anyone to read and follow with and covers almost everything with enough depth to get you going. I would like to see more on development.

This is a great book to get started with that gives you a full overview of Axapta, including installation, the essential business functionality, administration and development. Good set of appendixes for reference. If you are experienced in you area you should be able to figure out whatever you need once you have read the book. Even experienced users will benefit from reading the chapters they don't normally work with.

This is the authoritative guide on Microsoft Axapta. This book will send you on a self-guided journey into the "best practices" of installing and configuring Axapta. The authors have done a remarkable job of presenting a lot of content in a very easy to understand fashion. My hat is off to the authors.