The history of Dynamics AX / Axapta

The history of Dynamics AX / Axapta

Microsoft Dynamics AX is originally developed the Danish company Damgaard A/S as Axapta. In 2002 Damgaard A/S merged with Navision Software A/S, into NavisionDamgaard A/S, eventually ended up calling them Navision A/S

The development and modification of software is done by its own integrated development environment, MorphX, which contains several tools such as a debugger, profiler and query interface. The development environment remains the same client application, thereby allowing access to these tools from the client application. The language used in Axapta is X ++.

1998 - Axapta 1.0 is released in March.

Released in the US and Denmark
Financial, trade, inventory management, logistics and production, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5
1998 - Axapta 1.5 - Early release in Norway, Sweden, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium Spain and the European Union.

Publishing Manager
Call COM
Service Pack technology
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

1999 - Axapta 2.0 - July:

Project Accounting module
WMS
External OLAP
Option Pack concept
ActiveX support
COM-connector and an early release of Axapta Object Server

2000 - Axapta 2.1 - January: Market demands from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain.

Web tools and CSS (The first WebApp)
Microsoft SQL Server 2000, database log.
Receives Microsoft Windows 2000 logo.

2000 - Axapta 2.5 – December: Complete Web applications development environment.

Auto upgrade tool
ESS (Project)
Banking
First step of Load’n’Go
OLAP within Axapta
XML support
FA to Denmark, Austria and UK. Domains and ASP support
DBCS Support.

2001 - Axapta 2.5 Market Pack – October: Released in France and Italy.

Marketing Automation (CRM)
Commerce Gateway
Product Builder (Web application as well), training
Event Management (Web application as well).

2002 - Microsoft Axapta 3.0 - October:

Microsoft Axapta Enterprise Portal, intercompany collaboration.
New security and configuration keys.
Expanded geographical reach (more countries).
Demand planning.
Enhanced partner productivity tools.

2006 - Dynamics AX 4.0  - March:

  The seventh major Axapta release brought with it an updated look and feel. As the first version that Microsoft was involved in from the beginning it attempted to integrate better with existing Microsoft technologies.

AOS became a true Windows service
.Net business connector was provided
CLR Interoperability was introduced
XML data exchanges were supported through a set of code classes (Application Integration Framework)
Full Unicode support was introduced
Service Management module.

2008 - Dynamics AX 2009  - June: 

Originally named AX 4.1, later renamed to AX 5.0 (and finally AX 2009), the eighth major release of Axapta brings with it yet more improvements to the UI. This new version adds role-based concepts to both the Enterprise Portal and windows clients, support for timezones (utc), a new Site inventory dimension, and Enterprise Portal development through Visual Studio projects.

2011 - Dynamics AX 2011  - Q1:

 Sometimes dubbed AX 6, it is said to include additional improvements to the user interface and application enhancements focused on specific industries like Retail, Media & Entertainment, and Public sector. Originally AX 2011 was due to be released toward the middle of 2010, but this has since been put back to Q1 2011.

Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack:

 Released soon after AX 2012, the feature pack added a Retail solution in addition to the previously released industry-specific solutions.

Dynamics AX 2012 R2:

 Announced at the Convergence 2012 conference, AX 2012 R2 is due to ship in late 2012 and is expected to include enhanced support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 as well as support for additional languages and markets