Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based business application platform consisting of purpose-built intelligent applications that unifies ERP and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Part of Dynamics 365, Finance and Operations is a modern cloud-based ERP platform that helps you manage financials, manufacturing, and supply chain operations in a medium to large organization.

This book is written from the perspective of the ERP implementation team, encompassing everything required to achieve a successful implementation of Finance and Operations apps. You will deep dive into various aspects of Finance and Operations implementation and learn about best practices, architecture, tools, life cycle management, deployment, support, and maintenance.

This second edition is updated with the latest developments in Finance and Operations applications and technology. The book starts with an overview of Finance and Operations applications, life cycle services, implementation methodologies, application architecture, and deployment choices.

As you progress, you'll learn about requirement and process analysis, integration planning techniques, configuration and data management, as well as custom solution design and customization. This book demonstrates analytics and financial reporting capabilities and integration with Power BI and Azure Data Lake.

Toward the end of this journey, you'll understand the importance of testing and training and go-live planning. Managing predictable and continuous updates through One Version is the final takeaway from this book.