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Microsoft, Program Management, Live Services, Software + Service and more....

July 2006 - Posts

On the importance of a solid Workflow platform
Workflow is one of the key features of any business application, including CRM. Since my PhD days when I used to spend time on researching Reactive scheduling architectures including Procedural Reasoning Systems , I haven’t had a chance to spend much Read More...
A platform for building business applications: Live or On-premise
We already offer an extensible platform for building business applications on-premise. I intentionally didn’t say “CRM” business applications because one can build any types of business applications, CRM or not, on our platform. If you look at different Read More...
How "Technical" a good technical PM should be
Charles has a good post where he talks about the right balance of skills between developers and Program Managers in a scale that ranges from "technical" to "customer focused". His does a good job making his point well clear and it becomes more interesting Read More...
Create IntelliSense Code Snippets for CRM
Visual Studio 2005 IntelliSense Code Snippets feature enables pre-authored pieces of code to be created that can later be shared and inserted into your application. Code snippets increase productivity by reducing the amount of time spent typing repetitive Read More...
Create IntelliSense Code Snippets for CRM
Visual Studio 2005 IntelliSense Code Snippets feature enables pre-authored pieces of code to be created that can later be shared and inserted into your application. Code snippets increase productivity by reducing the amount of time spent typing repetitive Read More...
Don't invest in fancy mouse and keyboard, you may not need them for long
Simply brilliant: Brain sensor allows mind-control. or Device Lets Thoughts Control Computer I have been following brain computer interface research since my older professor at university of London attempted to build one in 1990's. We are getting a little Read More...
Want to demo CRM with some cool apps? Get the VPC..
I get asked this question very often, especially from our field who often come running two days before a big customer visit asking for a cool demo of CRM applications. Well Jan who is a colleague of mine has put together a great VPC with lots of cool Read More...
Customize CRM Data right inside Visual Studio 2005
CRM customization tools are pretty cool in a sense that they allow you to customize the CRM schema with just a few clicks. If you are a developer building CRM Applications, you typically do this: go to CRM application UI in IE à add your data customizations Read More...
Customize CRM Data right inside Visual Studio 2005
CRM customization tools are pretty cool in a sense that they allow you to customize the CRM schema with just a few clicks. If you are a developer building CRM Applications, you typically do this: go to CRM application UI in IE à add your data customizations Read More...
More thoughts on CRM Live
Check out David Thacher's, our GM, thoughts on CRM Live announcement here . Read More...
"CRM Live", here it comes..
I am very excited that CRM team can finally share the vision and thinking around live services with our partners and customers. Today, Steve Ballmer, our CEO, has announced CRM Live , a new live service from Microsoft that will be delivering outstanding Read More...
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