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Session focus

Centralized Omni-Channel Management

E-Commerce POS

IT Pro Experience

UX Improvements

Flexible, Scalable & Extensible Infrastructure

Search driven Shopping Experience

OOB “Starter” Storefront

Hardware Improvements

Time ClockCustomer Orders

ImprovementsPayment Processing

Commerce Data Exchange (CDX)

Commerce Run Time (CRT)Storefront Extensibility POS Extensibility

Merchandising & Inventory Improvements

Payment ProcessingBI/ReportingOrder Management &

Fulfillment

Customer ManagementChannel Management &

PublishingCatalog Management,

Enrichment & Publishing

Scale/Performance Upgrade & SupportMonitoring & DiagnosticsRapid StartSetup/Deployment

Administration Experience

Payments Extensibility

Customer Management

CRT Services Omni-Channel

Workflows

Pricing, Shipping & Taxes

Search, Scan Improvements

How to upgrade hundreds of retail stores?

Pain points and challenges

Backwards compatibility of Synch Service

Version specific instances of Real-

time Service

Retail channel schema versions

Data translation

Key investments

Upgrade process

AX 2009 AX 2012 R2

POS2009

POS2009

POS2012

POS2012

Overview

AX 6.2

Synch Service 6.2

Real-time Service 6.2

Real-time Service 5.1

Synch Service 6.2

Store Connect

5.0

POS 6.2

POS5.0

Each distribution location has a versionEach scheduler job has a translation methodMaps AX6.2 data to AX5 format

Translated data is saved to temporary tablesUpgraded AX5 scheduler jobs read from temporary tables and send data to POSMapping from store to POS databases

Implementation – Store Connect

Download

Run Scheduler

job

Read data

AX5?

Translate

AX6.2 tables

Temporary tables

Send request to Synch Service

YES

Example - Currency

Currency

Exchange rate currency pair

Exchange rate

Exchange rate type

Exchange rate

Currency

Translation process

Tem

pora

ry ta

ble

sA

X6.2

Requires upgrade modelVersion specific configuration dataRetailConnSeedDataGeneratorAX5RetailConnSeedDataGeneratorAX61

Update distribution locationsAssign POS distribution locations to store

Setup

Use previous version Real-time ServiceTranslate during API call

Implementation – Real-time Service

AX6.2

RTS6.2

RTS6.11

RTS5.1

POS6.2

POS5

POS6.1

Synch ServiceCreate/update appropriate temp tablesUpdate scheduler jobs to reflect field mappingsProvide translation logicRetailConnPOSDataTranslatorAX62_AX5RetailConnPOSDataTranslatorAX62_AX61

Real-time ServiceUpdate X++ methods to provide data translationRetailTransactionService_AX5RetailTransactionService_AX61

Customization

Key takeawaysSchema versionVersion specific schemas

Data translationFrame work to translate data during data transfer

Real-time ServiceMultiple versions for the service

POS upgradeRolling upgrade of POS terminals in the stores

Questions?

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