Organizations use Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations to reduce operational costs and rapidly respond to changing business needs. This solution lets organizations achieve these goals. This course discusses core common features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
A Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring the solution and applications. The Functional Consultant implements a solution using out of the box capabilities, codeless extensibility, application and service integrations.
Learn how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations supports businesses to manage their global financial systems, operational business processes, and streamlined supply chains to empower people to make fast, informed decisions. As the first step in your career of working with Finance and Operations, you must familiarize yourself with its features and functionality, regardless of your desired role.
Introduction
Industry focus
Introduction to financial management
Introduction to employee management
Introduction to supply chain management
To install and maintain Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in the Microsoft Azure cloud or on-premises, you need to use Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) to manage the process. Let’s get started by looking at the overall functionality and tools available within LCS. Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) is a collaborative workspace that customers and their partners use to manage Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations projects from pre-sales to implementation and finally to the production environment either on the cloud or on-premise. It provides checklists and tools that help you manage the project including methodologies that can help you manage your implementation process.
Understand the functionality and tools of Lifecycle Services
Reuse existing assets, copy and share data
Understand Task recorder functionality
Create a business process model
Run the LCS Issue Search tool and analyze results
Learn how to use Regression Suite Automation Tool
Practice Labs
With proper planning, your Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations implementation will be a success. After a customer signs the agreements to purchase licenses for Finance and Operations, your job as a functional consultant starts by managing the application lifecycle and moving toward predictable, repeatable, high quality implementation.
Introduction
Phases of a cloud implementation
Phases of an on-premises implementation
Create Functional Design Documents (FDD)
Business leaders make important decisions in their company with accurate insights of the underlying financial and operational data. With no visibility to that data, it would be impossible! By using analytics and reporting in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, you can empower every business user, depending on their security rights to get the insights they need.
Understand reports and inquiries
Learn about Financial reporting
Configure PowerBI to your instance
Practice Labs
We live in a digital age. Now, it’s difficult to imagine a day without smart devices. You use mobile applications almost every day for your social engagements, online banking, and for booking hotels, air, and rental cars. It seems only natural that you can use Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on your smart device.
Overview of Unified Operations mobile app
Build and use mobile apps
Practice Lab
Some organizations require that specific processes be approved by a user other than the person who enters the record. These workflow processes might require manual approval, workflow approval, or no approval.
Workflows for business processes
Create and setup workflows
Assign users to workflow touchpoints
Use Work items
Practice Lab
A legal entity is an organization that is identified through registration with a legal authority. Legal entities can enter into contracts and are required to prepare statements that report on their performance. You must plan and configure your organization and create legal entities as one of the first steps of implementing Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. This module explains the setup and configuration of legal entities and number sequences in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
Create a legal entity and generate number sequences
Create a number sequence
Create organization hierarchies
Apply purposes and policies
Configure calendars and date intervals
Practice Labs
If you understand the security architecture of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, you can customize it to fit the requirements of your business. Using Finance and Operations, you can keep your sensitive data safe and ensure that users remain focused on their roles. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has an array of security and configuration options to help keep your sensitive data safe. This all means that your users can remain focused on their roles, while the system remains as streamlined as possible. Knowing how to implement different security options will help companies cover their security requirements. When you understand the security architecture of Finance and Operations, you can more easily customize security to fit the requirements of your business.
Understand the security architecture
Manage users and security
Setup and apply segregation of duties
Run security reports
Setup batch jobs and alerts
Practice labs
By personalizing the user interface in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, you can empower employees of an organization to work more efficiently. Personalization helps department managers to enforce a specific user interface for their staff without a need for customization.
Describe and apply user options
Create, export and import personalizations
Create and maintain record templates
Practice labs
This module provides information about how to implement Common integration features in Finance and Operations. Microsoft Office Excel has been integrated with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations by default. This allows you to pull the data right from Finance and Operations, manipulate the data in Excel, and save it back to Finance and Operations. You can also send emails directly via Finance and Operations or by using Microsoft Outlook. You can print documents from anywhere from your browser to your company’s network printer, so the printing experience could not be easier.
Microsoft Office integration
Configure email
Create and maintain email templates
Use Power BI
Setup network printing
Integrate data into Common Data Services for Apps
Practice Labs
When it’s time for data migration, the more you know, the easier it is to control operational complexity and reduce costs. Your customer’s business continuity must be your priority. Learn how to prepare data for migration by using the data management framework to manage data entities and data entity packages in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
Introduction
Understand BYOD feature
Perform a test migration and validate output
You can export or import data in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations by using the Data management workspace. Validate the data by staging the source data, and then move it to the target tables in the Finance and Operations database. In this module, you will get an overview of the basic concepts of the Data management platform. You will also learn how to import and export data in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations by using the Data management workspace. Finally, you’ll learn how to use the asynchronous recurring integration features of the Data management platform.
Introduction
Understand data management and integration
Data management workspace
Templates in data management
Import, export and copy data into a legal entity
Practice Labs
After all the customer requirements have been addressed by either configuration, customization, and integration with possible third-party, you need to know how to perform user acceptance testing (UAT) in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations to validate the solution. This is a crucial step as part of the go-live preparation. In order to test and evaluate the customer solution prior to the go-live, you need to have an environment of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, that has all the configurations, possible customization via extensions. It is always beneficial to have a methodology to ensure the creation and testing is organized and planned properly for a short, efficient, and role focused test case scenarios.
Introduction
Create and perform test cases for User Acceptance
Practice Lab
All your hard work becomes a success by moving the implemented solution in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations to the production environment. You want a happy customer, a quality solution, and peace of mind during this important phase, which is known as go live. Learn how to prepare to go live with a Finance and Operations project by using Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS).
Introduction
Get ready to go live
Final assessment and course summary, as well as a post-course survey for the course.
Final assessment
Course summary
Post-course survey
Prerequisites
This course is intended for Power Users, Technical students, Administrators and Developers.
Although not compulsory, it is recommended that students attend the prerequisite course ‘Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics 365’
This course is intended for Power Users, Technical students, Administrators and Developers.