Let's get started with what makes AX such a powerful solution. AX provides prebuilt industry and operational capabilities that will give you more value faster. All of this is provided out of the box with proven functionality for manufacturing including process, discrete and lean, distribution, retail, public sector and service industries functionality. By delivering this capability, AX gives you more value faster and establishes a strong platform for independent software vendors, or ISVs, to more efficiently deliver this specialized vertical functionality you need two verticals within those industries. Stronger based functionality and a broad portfolio of specialized vertical solutions means a better fit for the needs of your business, more value, and more rapid time to value. AX uniquely combines industry-specific capabilities in one solution and makes them available to all customers, benefiting organizations that require capabilities for more than one industry. AX provides a global solution that grows easily with your business. It's simple enough to deploy for a single business unit in a single country. AX supports the unique requirements for business systems in 36 different countries, all from a single-instance deployment of the software. Multiple currencies, multiple time zones, languages and compliance with banking and reporting standards and legislative codes give you global coverage that you require. The layered architecture and installable language packs provide the flexibility for future growth to other markets including options for agile partner localization. The RoleTailored user interface spans the AX rich client and the enterprise portal. It helps drive productivity and business insight through its familiar user experience and connection with business processes. Microsoft Word and Excel, which are familiar and powerful tools that workers already know and use, work bidirectionally with AX to enhance worker productivity. A flexible help system provides added support when it's needed. The value of a business system is not only about the ease of entering transactions, instead it's about turning those transactions into information or BI to help users make faster, better decisions. To do this, BI must be embedded into the application, not a separate tool that requires users to take additional steps and switch context. Rich embedded BI is at the core of AX 2012 with more than 45 role centers provided out of the box which provides the right BI for each user's job role, 23 SQL analytics server cubes that provide data to role centers, key performance indicators, or KPIs, that are role based and tailored to each process, more than 800 out-of-the-box reports that are all delivered through SQL Server Reporting Services, rich interoperability with Microsoft Excel for outputting report and enabling analysis, and interoperability the Microsoft's Power Pivot for ad hoc slicing and dicing. Info parts provide in-context BI fully embedded throughout the AX user experience.