AX has part of it built on top of SharePoint, specifically its Enterprise Portals and its role centers, which help shape the user experience for a certain role type like a CEO, or a shop floor control person, or a purchasing manager.
When a userconnects either through the rich client or the web-based client, the role center delivers to the user the information and the most common tasks, reports, forms that they need for that specific user defined role. Think of it as a digital, in basket, dashboard- you can look up information in Ax but how do you now what needs to be looked at day by day in your job? The role centre can be personalised with relevant kpis and reports, workflow and alert actions and messages, cues related to open orders to draw your attention to what needs to be done or to be investigated and provides direct links to the relevant forms, reports etc
SharePoint has new features specifically around BI especially PowerPivot, a self-service targeted business intelligence. So Microsoft’s is trying to give access to everybody in the company to relevant BI functionality. This update enables Dynamics AX SP 1 to have its Enterprise Portal and role centers deployed on the altest version of SharePoint with its many new features.
