Performance audit for the system Microsoft Dynamics AX

During the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics AX, all application parameters are set. However, the system’s performance parameters, even if properly set, change over time and depend on the amount of data, its layout, the load generated by users and the nature of their work. As a result, work on performance is a continuous process and it constitutes a constant component of the service and maintenance of the system. An efficient system, after many months of registering of transactions can, in the opinion of users, fail to meet expectations in this respect.

In the architecture of the system Microsoft Dynamics AX, performance depends on many factors. Some of the major ones are:

• application code – whether the software for handling processes or screen forms meets the performance requirements specific for the data collected in the database,
• performance of AOS application servers,
• performance of database servers – processors, available memory,
• network capacity,
• database configuration,
• application configuration,
• work organization – e.g. launching of the so-called “large runs” outside the normal working hours of the largest group of users.

The performance audit of the system Microsoft Dynamics AX is aimed to find any bottlenecks in the performance of the working installation of the system.

It consists of the following jobs:

• preliminary review of the environment,
• monitoring of on-line work from the point of view of the database,
• monitoring of on-line work from the point of view of the application Microsoft Dynamics AX,
• verification of the configuration of system’s parameters with the help of dedicated tools by Bonair,
• producing of a report from the audit and pointing out to any places and parameters in the system which should be optimized.