In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
Click here for my conversation with William Barrow, CTO of Axonom, a successful ISV, in the High-Tech, Government and Associations, and Financial Services industries with their flagship application Powertrak CRM.
Prior Stories:
· 422 Group
· Client Profiles
· Campus Management Corp
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
Click here for my conversation with Doug Wofford, President & CEO, and Keith Beindorf, VP Product Development of 422 Group, a successful ISV, in the Higher-Education industry with their flagship application Continuum 422 CRM.
Prior Stories:
· Client Profiles
· Campus Management Corp
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
Click here for my conversation with Kevin Wydra, VP & Director R&D with Client Profiles, a successful ISV, in the legal industry with their flagship application CRM4Legal.
Prior Stories:
· Campus Management Corp
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is designed to meet the performance and scalability requirements of large enterprises. The benchmark test results detailed in these white papers can help customers and partners understand various aspects of performance and scalability in version 4.0.
- Enterprise Performance and Scalability White Paper
Summary of user, database and bandwidth performance and scalability results.
- Enterprise User Scalability White Paper
Summary of user scalability to 24,000 concurrent users with sub-second response times.
- Enterprise Database Scalability White Paper
Summary of database scalability to over 1 billion database records with sub-second response times.
- Enterprise Bandwidth Utilization White Paper
Summary of network utilization improvements of up to 94% over previous versions.
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is built on a sophisticated line-of-business application platform that provides the basic services required by ISVs and developers to build upon. While this ability is clearly applicable in CRM-type scenarios, Microsoft Dynamics CRM also supports a wide range of other business applications (xRM-type scenarios, helping people manage all kinds of connections and relationships of all forms: government to citizen, politician to constituent) with the essentials required for building, delivering and maintaining them in a multi-tenant Software+Services environment. In this white paper we explore how, with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, an ISV can quickly build, deploy and manage line-of-business applications.
Developing xRM Business Applications (White Paper from Microsoft)
David Yack shares various details on building business applications using CRM platform. Download this white-paper here.
Business Application Platform (White Paper from Ascentium)
Jason Hunt and Aaron Elder of Ascentium share their perspective in this white-paper to build business applications. Download this white-paper here.
Opportunity for ISVs (White Paper from Microsoft)
Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners have excellent opportunities to increase customer reach and generate incremental revenue by providing value-added solutions such as vertical solutions, integrations and application add-ons based on market and business focus. Download this white-paper here.
Two Previous Blogs on Potential of Dynamics CRM as Platform
Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Future of Business Application Development Platforms
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform: How to Differentiate and/or Win?
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
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Today we announced the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, an on-demand customer relationship management service hosted and managed by Microsoft. The new Internet service delivers a full suite of marketing, sales and service capabilities through a Web browser or directly into Microsoft Office and Outlook. |
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You can learn more about Microsoft’s strategy for delivering next-generation CRM solutions from a new webcast featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Martha Rogers from the Peppers and Rogers Group.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is initially packaged in two service offerings:
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Professional delivers a full suite of CRM capabilities with extensive configurability and extensibility options. Businesses get 5 GB of data storage, 100 configurable workflows and 100 custom entities. The Professional edition is priced at $44 per user per month, with an introductory offer of $39 per user, per month. |
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Professional Plus delivers all the capabilities of the Professional version plus offline data synchronization with expanded data storage, workflow and customization options that give businesses 20 GB of data storage, 200 configurable workflows and 200 custom entities. The Professional Plus edition is priced at $59 per user per month. |
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is available in three deployment models (Power of Choice – On-Premise, Partner-Hosted, Online). See here for comparing extensibility features.
To learn about Microsoft Dynamics CRM and to sign up for the new online service, customers can visit http://crm.dynamics.com or call (877) CRM CHOICE (276-2464).
Early Adopter ISVs can request their Architect Evangelist, to be nominated for a 12-months free account with 20GB storage and offline sync for development purposes.
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
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April 22-24, 2008 Sheraton Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ
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This is a unique event designed for developers, architects, technical and business decision makers in the healthcare industry. Please join us to discover how Microsoft, its partners, and customers make possible the delivery of Software + Services in Health & Life Sciences. You may see the session details here and the registration details here.
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Keynote Speakers |
Peter Neupert - Corporate Vice President Health Solutions Group
Steve Aylward - Health & Life Sciences Industry General Manager
Paul Mattes - Industry Managing Director, Health & Life Sciences
Grad Conn - Senior Director Health Solutions Group
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Session |
I am presenting a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 session along with our two Dynamics CRM ISVs (Proscape and Brimstone) on Thu 04/24/2008 at 11am ET.
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See you there!!!
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
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We delivered our 1st in-person Dynamics Discovery Day event at Mountain View, CA on Thu 4/3. These in-person events are part of 2nd wave (1st wave was via web) to educate ISV community on platform aspects of Dynamics. We started with nice lunch, followed by three focused Dynamics sessions covering ERP and CRM in detail and ended with nice cocktail networking session. See here for more detail for upcoming events. See you there!!
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Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
Convergence is the premier Microsoft Dynamics event, bringing customers, partners, team members and industry experts together in an environment created for you to discuss solutions, address business needs and establish a true community that can be leveraged throughout the year. The Convergence 2008 Orlando Partner Briefing is Monday March 10, followed by Convergence 2008 Orlando on March 11 – 14. Click here to learn more.
I am planning to meet several of my managed ISVs and would be available for 1:1s if you are interested. You may use the Convergence CommNet site (a cool networking tool) to request a meeting.
See you there!!!
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
Microsoft Dynamics™ is a great and largely untapped opportunity for the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community. This half day will provide an overview of the Microsoft Dynamics™ Products and Platform and will provide a clear view of how your ISV business can profit from either building on or connecting to Microsoft Dynamics™ Products. This event is structured to deliver optimal value to business and technology leaders. In addition to the agenda items noted below we have structured in networking time so you can connect with other leaders in your ISV community.
First, a few fast facts about the Microsoft Dynamics™:
- As a product team we have over 26 years experience developing business applications.
- Microsoft Dynamics™ has over 300,000 customer installations worldwide.
- We serve customers through a partner ecosystem of close to 9,600 partners worldwide.
- In Q1 FY08 Microsoft Dynamics™ became a $1billion dollar business for Microsoft on 25% revenue growth.
For reserving your seat, click here.
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04/03/2008 |
Mountain View, CA |
Noon – 5pm |
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04/11/2008 |
Irvine, CA |
Noon – 5pm |
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04/17/2008 |
New York, NY |
Noon – 5pm |
Sanjay Jain
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Blogs: Team’s Blog + Sanjay’s Blog
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We are very excited to host several of Launch Tour events (22 Microsoft Hosted + 44 Partner Hosted) throughout the US starting this week. Please see the details and register here. |
I will be presenting at the following four events and look forward to meet you. If you are interested in 1:1 conversation discussing our managed Early Adopter program for our managed ISVs, please send me an email detailing your company and solution profile with date/city.