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Upgrading to Dynamics Ax 2012

I have been laying low the past weeks due to some healt problems that have hindered me from working and writing some blogs.

Now I am slowly getting back after an operation on the 31st of August.

Before I went on a sick leave in mid July I was working on an upgrade project from Dynamics Ax 4.0 to Dynamics Ax 2012.

In this first post after the operation I just wanted to point out the importance of the data upgrade process and how important it is for all parties to work to gather to get it done. To success in the process the developer, consultant and the end customer must work as one. As a single unit the developer for example only has few pieces of the puzzle. He or she knows or at least should know how to write data upgrade scripts. But in order to succeed with that the developer needs to know how to transform the data and it is there where the consultant with the end customer come in to the picture.

So togather the consultant and end customer decide how and what data needs to be transformed and the developer knows how to do that.

All the parties involved need at least to have high level understanding of the overall process.

This blog post here from Kevin Kidder is a great help and starting point  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsupport/archive/2012/06/04/10266239.aspx

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