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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:45 PM

Awesome Read.... Gartner on Sage CRM

You gotta review this report. https://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=141380 WELL Done. VERY Slick. :-) Having read it, it is something I wish I could send to everybody who is looking at or selling Sage CRM Products. :-)
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:00 AM

This is pretty cool....

Arash has a great article on using CRM to call other web services.... Now he has tackled how to call CRM's Own Web Services from JScript. J Well worth the read. I think I may have the need for this very soon. Calling “CRM” Web services using JScript Enjoy!
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Monday, August 28, 2006 10:30 PM

Partner Event: Competing with Sage SalesLogix v2

Alright... I messed up. I use Vonage for my phone lines and use Verizon for my internet access. Well, during the LiveMeeting, my Vonage Service went on the brink and my cell phone you couldn’t hear. So we cut it short to redo it. J So the event team was
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Monday, August 21, 2006 9:00 PM

Partner Event: Competing with Sage SalesLogix

You know I really have to stop this… So Wednesday is my final compete session on Microsoft CRM. (Session 4 of 4!!!!) And the subject picked is one near and dear to my heart. SalesLogix. So if you are interested in learning how to compete and win against
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:30 AM

Using Microsoft CRM with a Mac

So I have resisted posting this subject for a long time. It comes up about once every other month or two. The question usually goes like this… I am working on a media company that has about a few users that use Apple or MacOS X. The questions usually
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Friday, August 11, 2006 7:00 AM

Tracking the Date Fields by Date, Month or Year - Part Two

This is an update to this blog post . You may want to read it first to get the whole story. J So after posting the article on dates creating a picklist to grab the month from a date field to allow for better querying, I got several pieces of feedback
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:00 AM

Doing Math in Microsoft CRM aka Calculated Fields

This is a question I get about once a week and got tired of typing up the same email over and over again. J Doing Math in Microsoft CRM using Jscript is mind numbingly easy. If you can do an Excel (Or VisiCalc ) math equation, then you can do one in Microsoft
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:15 PM

OT: Way Cool.... I got to a GT350-H for the day

I am in Tampa doing some partner and customer meetings. While walking to my Avis Econobox, I passed this little number... Walked right back to the Avis counter and threw the keys back at them and walked to the Hertz counter... 10 Minutes later.... I hate
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:18 PM

Not Robin Hood, More like Friar Tuck... .(At least I look like him...)

So I got harassed by Philip for my last post. J His idea is actually the same one that Ron had and is the one that Kevin from the Microsoft Consulting Services also recommended. (Stay tuned to read Kevin’s comments and his improvements to my lousy code.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:45 PM

Tracking the Date Fields by Date, Month or Year

-- Update -- Before you use this code, you may want to look at this Blog Post. It contains a number of fixes and is alot cleaner than my code. :-) (This article goes up 8/11/07) So one of questions posed on one of our internal distribution groups was
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:00 PM

It seemed like a good idea...

Back in June to schedule a bunch of LiveMeetings for August. Well August is here and I am slammed. :-) We have a good number of folks registered for the ACT! compete session on Wed. Come on out and learn about how to beat ACT!. (Which isn't hard by the
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