I move to my new role next week. The last 6 years in MBS have been a memorable journey. I have learnt a lot from our customers, partners and team members. THANK YOU. We made tremendous progress with Dynamics ERP, CRM and Office Small Business...

I recently read The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda . He has a cool web site as well. In the Dynamics group there is a lot of passion around this subject. John’s first rule – REDUCE: Simplicity through thoughtful reduction…strikes me as the most critical...

Last week we released our early access to Dynamics Live CRM (code name: Titan) to partners.... this is a huge milestone for us. I have been playing around with my Dynamics LIVE account and it’s great to explore some of the things we can enable with the...

Bill’s keynote at Convergence EMEA is going to focus on two topics – Role Based User Experience advances & Dynamics in the “Live Era”. Role Based user experience advances. We continue to raise the bar when it comes to user experience advances....

Today in Munich the Microsoft Dynamics team will kick off its first Convergence customer conference for the EMEA region. Over 3,200 customers and partners from 75 countries will come together three days of learning and networking. We’ll have keynotes...

New wave of business software for small businesses launches tonight!! Check out www.ideawins.com late Sunday night. Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 Express… is available for free download!! We have three 3 core themes driving our innovation...

I have gotten a couple comments pointing out that my previous links to the Dynamics Customer Model are not working. So here is a fresh link: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/product/familiartoyourpeople.mspx

This was announced today at WPC in Boston . The demo that Brad did on stage with Steve showed CRM/Office/Windows LIVE all mashed-up!! It was awesome. The key for me is that we are thinking through the partner opportunity every step of the way on this...

Bill Gates – is a unique guy. What he achieved at Microsoft is a story that is well known and celebrated. I was lucky enough to have been part of the that ride since 92’. I will never forget the first BillG email I got. It was exciting that that the CEO...

At Tech Ed, Microsoft will announce Office Business Application (OBA) services. This announcement nicely builds on the previous two posts. Think of OBA as the platform support for “business mash-ups” in Office. To date we have been using Sharepoint...

At TechEd Darren Laybourn & James Utzschneider will be presenting a keynote at the MBS track. As usual lots of demos are planned. There is a new RSS feed demo for Dynamics AX 4.0 using its web services framework (AIF). They will go through how to...

We hit Dynamics AX 4.0 RTM today. This has been a year of major Dynamics Wave 1 releases for us (CRM 3.0, GP 9.0). I am super proud of what we achieved in this release. We are delivering on all the Wave 1 themes (new UX, search across structured/un-structured...

Finished reading a great survey of the New Media in the Economist . A lot of what it talks about in terms of new kinds of user generated content applies to work we as a community are doing (Dynamics blogs, newsgroups, solutions finder etc). ...

Dynamics Code Gallaries in GotDotNe t are growing rapidly. Both the CRM and SNAP communities now have over 1K members. And they are listed as “hot” in terms of activity (vs tipid or cold)!! I am still trying to figure out how they compute the “hotness...

I just got the new Microsoft Dynamics Customer model poster hung in my office this week. This is more than just another poster for us. It’s been the catalyst for real cultural change throughout the organization driven by the awesome initiative of our...

Some great feedback on the Tech Conference Suggestions post. We clearly hear the community feedback on the need for more technical information. We are going to explore several ideas – adding technical track/day to Convergence; adding Dynamics product...

We just hit RTM on CRM 3.0 mobile client. Two cool features – over the air sync support & also much better support for setting up of perimeter/internet facing topologies. Looking forward to seeing the feedback on this release. We need to plan for...

Tech Conference. We have been having internal discussion threads around how we reach out to our technical community more effectively. In the past GP had Tech Conferences. Navision had their Product Conference. We have in the last couple years switched...

Just got back from Convergence, it was by far the best I have been to. Doug’s keynote was quite emotional. The story he used to illustrate “communities” had to do with his family Grain Elevator (seriously I had to look up what the heck this is on Wikipedia...

Dynamics Community has content, code and ability to connect with others in the community. Power of Dynamics Community can perhaps be best gauged by how directly it impacts our product features. ~60% of features that ship in Dynamics GP 9.0 were a direct...

Watch for the Dynamics client demo tomorrow at Convergence. It’s an immersive roles based user experience that shows how we adapt Windows Vista & Office 2007 UX concepts to Dynamics. You will see how “stacks” from Vista can help give you visual cues...

Hosted Dynamics CRM at Convergence. http://demo.hostedmscrm.com A partner of ours – Streamline Solutions - has deployed CRM as a hosted service for attendees of Convergence to play around with. You can login as your favorite role and full immersive...

At today’s Partner Day at Convergence, I got a chance to do 15 demos in 20 min as part of the opening Keynote with Tami Reller !! Thanks Graham Sheldon & Darren Laybourn for staying up all night getting the VPCs all staged. Next time we will remember...

RSS feed generator for CRM is now available for. The idea here was to support taking any Advanced Find saved query in CRM and make it available as an RSS feed. Read about RSS support for CRM & Download Thanks Michaeljon Miller and CRM...

Web Services in Dynamics Wave 1 releases. What is the intent behind them? The core vision behind what we are doing is Roles Based Productivity. To deliver on this vision, you have to start with “People” and really connect them up to their “work...