ConfigCompare
作成者: AXImprove Ltd
Compare and manage environment configurations across your D365 Finance and Supply Chain ecosystem.
Unprecedented Control over Configuration for Companies using D365 Finance and Supply Chain Management
ConfigCompare is an innovative solution designed to give Companies using D365 Finance and Operations an unprecedented level of control over their system configurations.
By identifying configuration differences between environments, and at various points in time; ConfigCompare proves indispensable throughout the implementation and ongoing use of D365.
Critical Phases for Configuration Validation and Management
Without proper validation and understanding of your ERP configuration, various stages can become time-consuming, and costly.
ConfigCompare is crucial during:
- Workshops and Business Process Reviews: Validate configurations against business process requirements.
- ISV Product Reviews: Compare and assess third-party integrations.
- Conference Room Pilots: Verify configurations before full-scale deployment.
- All Testing Phases: Identify discrepancies and ensure consistent environments.
- Gold Configuration Promotion: Safeguard your baseline configuration.
- Training sessions: Provide accurate configuration data for training materials.
- Mock Go Live: Simulate go-live scenarios with accurate configuration.
- Go Live Cutover: Transition smoothly with validated configuration.
- Support Triage: Quickly identify and resolve configuration-related issues.
- Change management and Governance: Ensure change compliance through configuration audits.
- Global Rollouts: Maintain consistency across multiple regions.
- Post Go Live Support and Improvement: Continuously improve your configuration.
- Cross Tenant Implementations (Geo-Restricted): Manage configurations across different geographic regions, and multiple Production environments.
ConfigCompare: Empowering a Mature ERP Product
As a mature ERP product, D365 Finance and D365 Supply Chain Management caters to the diverse needs of various organizations and industries. The system's configuration possibilities allows users to align specific settings across available modules to their business processes These configurations are dynamic and evolve with ongoing business requirements, and business process change control. Each module includes configuration forms (usually under Setup) and underlying data structures. These configurations govern data entry, validation, document creation, processing, inter-module flows, financial posting, and reporting. For instance, the Contoso demo contains an average of 46,148 multi-option settings per legal entity. ConfigCompare ensures full control over these settings for every company across all environments.
Managing Thousands of Choices Across Multiple Environments
Implementing an ERP system involves thousands of configuration decisions. Managing these choices throughout the ERP's lifecycle: implementation, use, and improvement, across multiple environments and companies is critical. New business units or companies may require anything from slightly to fundamentally different configurations. Traditionally, keeping these configurations in sync, and having the differences well understood is prohibitively time-consuming. ConfigCompare revolutionizes this process.
Key Features of ConfigCompare
ConfigCompare tracks and manages changes in any area representing your configured system. It checks both data values and data structures.
Benefits of Using ConfigCompare
- Reduced Implementation Costs: Streamline your implementation process and reduce associated costs.
- Integrity Management: Maintain the integrity of your configured solution.
- Simplified Application Lifecycle Management: Make the management process easier and more efficient.
- Enhanced Governance: Ensure strict compliance with regulations like SOX and J-SOX.
- Audit Capability: Easily audit business configuration changes.
- Improved Change Management: Enhance your change management processes.
- Consistent Environment Validation: Ensure configurations remain consistent across all environments.
- Accelerated Issue Resolution: Quickly pinpoint configuration issues, reducing downtime.
- Enhanced Training Efficiency: Provide accurate configurations for effective training programs.
- Future-Proofing: Easily adapt configurations to meet evolving business needs.
Conclusion
ConfigCompare transforms the management of ERP configurations, offering control, efficiency, and compliance. Embrace the future of D365 Finance and Operations management with ConfigCompare, ensuring your system evolves seamlessly with your business needs.