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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>GovCon : Epartners</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/tags/Epartners/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Epartners</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Considerations when Deploying CRM for Government Contractors</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/2008/02/13/considerations-when-deploying-crm-for-government-contractors.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7680432</guid><dc:creator>czmuda</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/comments/7680432.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/commentrss.aspx?PostID=7680432</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;H5 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;article below to show what I would have liked to have seen.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H5&gt;
&lt;H5 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/2008/02/13/considerations-when-deploying-crm-for-government-contractors.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff&gt;Considerations when Deploying CRM for Government Contractors&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H5&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;We were fortunate enough to have Dena Tompros share her best practices on evaluating, planning, and deploying CRM at the Microsoft Government Contractor Summit.&amp;nbsp; Dena selected &lt;B&gt;ePartner’s Government Contracting Enhancement for Microsoft CRM&lt;/B&gt; to handle the needs of her government contracting firm.&amp;nbsp; Key reasons were ease of integration to both Microsoft solutions (SharePoint, Active Directory etc) and ability to integrate to Deltek Costpoint. With Microsoft CRM for Government Contractors organizations are able to:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Enable Workflow tracking for classified and unclassified information &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Collect and manage RFIs and RFPs &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analyses; ensuring cost-plus and fixed price analyses are as automated as possible &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Provide Revenue projections and opportunity reports &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Proposal generation and management – many are using templates or parts of the proposal over and over again so having CRM assist here in an automated fashion is key &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Customer, partner, team and competitor relationship management. Ensuring the organization is harnessing all their knowledge about a contract and associated agency. What is the history in the account across teams – across states – across govt contracts? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Helps teams have a laser focus on project, engagement, execution and delivery .&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3&gt;Download Dena's presentation for more details. If you are interested in contacting Dena for more information drop me a line at &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:czmuda@microsoft.com"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=3&gt;czmuda@microsoft.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt; and I can assist you in contacting her. Additionally, you can visit &lt;A class="" title=Epartners href="http://epartnersolutions.com/" mce_href="http://epartnersolutions.com/"&gt;Epartners&lt;/A&gt; to determine if Microsoft CRM would be beneficial for your company.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7680432" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/attachment/7680432.ashx" length="575488" type="application/vnd.ms-powerpoint" /><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/tags/CRM+for+Government+Contractors/default.aspx">CRM for Government Contractors</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/govcon/archive/tags/Epartners/default.aspx">Epartners</category></item></channel></rss>