Integration technologies

As enterprises move toward using more and more specialized applications rather than having an ERP do everything for them, you need a robust framework and strategy for managing integrations within the ERP system. Dynamics AX provides many such robust frameworks and functionalities to integrate with third-party applications using modern techniques.

The following section outlines the commonly-used integration technologies in Dynamics AX. It is important to make sure that the technical analysts and developers in your project are familiar with these technologies, so that they can support the design process and identify the best integration solution for your project.

Application Integration Framework and services

AIF (Application Integration Framework) is the de facto integration methodology to integrate Dynamics AX with third-party applications and is a built-in infrastructure into the Dynamics AX platform.

AIF enables companies to integrate and communicate with the external...