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Greetings from Atlanta, GA!

I am new to AX, and I have some basic questions abut using Companies in AX 2009.

We are setting up a new site in a 30 site AX 2009 instance.

System response is not as "crisp" as the new users would like.

They would also like to do a few things differently than the other sites.  

It was suggested setting up a separate company within AX might address these issues.

So, I have several questions:

1. Will using a separate company for the new site improve performance? 

2. Can we customize AX on a per company basis?  If yes, is this superior to simply customizing based on Site?

3. Is using a consolidation company as straight forward as it appears to be from the documentation?

4. I know I can use virtual company accounts to share tables like the item table and the customer table.  What are the limits on which tables I can share?  I read that I can share non-transaction tables, but I'm not sure what that means in the AX world.

5. If we create a new instance of AX for the new site, can we use the same consolidation company as the old instance?  I know this would be an extreme step to take, but I have been asked to find out.

Thanks!

John

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  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 301,053 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi John,

    When reading your question, I think there is a large history.

    1) Do you have currently performance issues? If yes, please explain. Without additional information this cannot be answered.

    2) It is not possible to create customizations per legal entity. You can however create parameters or have it dependent on country /region codes.

    3) Have you tried it already yourself? It is quite straight forward for the happy flow. For eliminations and re-consolidations you have to do some more actions.

    4) In fact you can share any table, but if it can be avoided this will have my preference. Sharing tables needs to be considered very well as probably also related tables needs to be included. Also when you share e.g. a customer you can only setup one default payment condition for both legal entitites

    5) Do you mean a new installation or a new company?

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 237,926 Most Valuable Professional on at

    First of all, splitting a single company to several ones has huge implication; you should think it through carefully.

    Virtual companies are not easy to use. If you put one table there, you have to add all related tables (or write code to somehow handle the mix of shared and non-shared data) and you'll typically find that you need almost all tables... :) Also, virtual companies are deprecated in AX 7, therefore you wouldn't be able to (easily) upgrade your solution.

    How do you think it should improve performance? I see reasons why it could be slower, but not faster. I think you're on a wrong track here...

    You can't use different code for different companies if you have a single environment. Nevertheless you surely can use different business logic (based on parameters), show/hide certain form controls at runtime and so on. To use different customizations, you would need completely separate AX instances, not just more companies.

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