Regarding AX2012

Just attended a call regarding future direction of AX for Retail.

It looks like the first release for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will retain the same functionality as R2 for AX 2009 with some slight variations in the following:

1. Product structure
2. Retail hierarchy will lose the limitation of 4 levels
3. Organizational structure

Regarding the last one it would make sense that it would drive the data distribution and be used in promotions, but it is too early to tell whether it will.

Again, not all the countries will see AX2012 at the same time, since it does not become available in some market until later.