Vilmos Kintera, head of AX at JJ Food Service Limited, discusses the importance of business applications, particularly ERP systems, which facilitate integrated management of business operations in real-time. He emphasizes the advantages of using ERP for uninterrupted workflows and immediate information availability, highlighting his extensive experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX and Dynamics 365. Kintera also outlines key elements required for effective business operations, such as IT support, high availability infrastructure, and continuous optimization.

1. Let’s talk Tech
Interview with Vilmos Kintera

2. Let’s talk Tech
Program
About section
Introduction to Business Applications
University of London GDSC interview
Questions and Answers

3. Kintera Vilmos
Head of AX @ JJ Food Service Limited, United Kingdom
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4. Introduction
• World banking IT high school, started undergrad degrees at BMF/BME
• Mostly self-taught (Commodore 64 BASIC, QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal,
Borland Delphi, .Net C#, X++, PowerShell / *nix bash, T-SQL, Python)
• Working with Axapta 3.0, Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics
365 since 2003 – Software Engineer, Team Lead, Solution Architect
• Lived and worked in Hungary, Austria, Iceland, Australia, Sweden, USA, UK
• Major companies: Columbus IT Global, Sable Systems, Annata IS, Sapa-
Hydro Aluminium, JJ Food Service
Let’s talk Tech

7. Introduction to
Business Applications

8. What are Business Applications?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the integrated management of
business operations, where information is available in real time.
Human decision
makers
Internal and
external information
Hardware and
software

9. What are Business Applications?
The advantage of an integrated ERP systems is that work is not interrupted.
Once a work phase is finished, information is immediately available for
further consumption and processing by the next person within the same
software.
It is accessible, reportable, internal and external communication is
immediately realized.

10. What are Business Applications?
There systems are designed to support running business operations, which
we refer as vertical solutions.
Some examples of such solutions are:
•Heavy Industry and Manufacturing
•Retail- and Wholesales
•Finance and Banking
•Projects
•Public Sector
•Pharmaceuticals

11. What are Business Applications?
Currently we distinguish on-premises and cloud-hosted ERP systems.
I am working with Microsoft Dynamics AX (on-prem) and Dynamics 365
Finance and Operations Enterprise (MS Azure)

12. What are Business Applications?

13. What are Business Applications?
JJ Food Service Limited:
•Business-to-business (B2B) sales of food and non-food products
•15+ years of history, using Microsoft Dynamics AX from version 3.0 to 2012 R3
•11 branches and warehouses across the UK
•60.000 customers
•100+ delivery vehicles

14. What are Business Applications?

15. What are Business Applications?
Key aspects to run a business 24/7/365:
•High availability IT infrastructure
•IT Support and HelpDesk team
•ERP technical developers and functional consultants
•.Net and Web development team
•Proper High Availability / Disaster Recovery practices
•Monitoring
•Version Control
•Constantly optimizing business operations

16. What are Business Applications?

17. What are Business Applications?