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Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Dynamics NAV - a CRMUG Roundtable session

martinhj@microsoft.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:55:00 GMT

Are you using Dynamics NAV along with Dynamics CRM? Then join this roundtable, hosted by NAVUG, to share & listen as other companies discuss their interest as well as experience around Integrating Microsoft CRM with NAV.

The Roundtable will explore the following topics:

What value does integrating CRM & NAV add to my organization?
What are the technical aspects of the integration?
How does Microsoft Sharepoint fit in?
Who has performed the integration & what can they share with me?

Logistics
Date & time: 28th of April 2009 20.30 - 21.30 Danish Timezone and 18.30 - 19.30 Icelandic Timezone.
The session will be hosted via Live Meeting.
For more information on this session and to register go here.
For more information about the "Dynamics CRM User Group" go here.

Thanks to the Dynamics CRM User Group for this initiative.

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

martinhj@microsoft.com — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:52:00 GMT

In addition to the blog post earlier today, here is more nice stuff from E2:

The Microsoft CRM E2 team is pleased to announce the release of the white paper ‘Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008’, which is now available for download here.

This document provides an overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 features that can be used in conjunction with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to improve performance and secure the CRM database, together with benchmark results and recommendations for implementation.

E2 would like to thank the SQL Server Product Development Team and UK MCS for contributing to and reviewing this paper to help ensure that the information we’ve provided is accurate and comprehensive.

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Enterprise Customers?

martinhj@microsoft.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:56:00 GMT

Oh yeah! We even have an initiative just focusing on this. They go under the name CRM E2 - Engineering for Enterprise.

In this post you get great quick links for technical information, studies and recources plus more.

Recent Activities

Upcoming Conferences/Presentations

Convergence US 2009, New Orleans (March 2009)

Session: Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Built and Used by Microsoft
Chalk Talk: Enterprise Scalability and Performance with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Happy New Year and two new releases!

martinhj@microsoft.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:16:00 GMT

Happy New Year everybody! :-)

2009 is here and lots of new information is waiting to get your way. First of all I will remind you, that two new accelerators have been released in R1 versions.

Analytics
With this extended BI for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 customers will get sales, service and operations dashboards. They will be able to view scorecards through SSRS, SharePoint and PerformancePoint Server plus browse pre-built OLAP cubes for deeper analysis.

Benefits include: Support and strengthen business insights to identify interest points and empower decisions, in short: Kick-off BI!

Enterprise Search
With this accelerator you can rapidly configure portal views of Microsoft Dynamics CRM data within SharePoint (MOSS) and expose this data to MOSS enterprise search. Users will be able to use one central unstructured search to find e-mails, documents, web content, and now Microsoft Dynamics CRM data!

Benefits include: Short-cut to enterprise search solutions and configure audience-specific SharePoint portals with CRM data.

Download and more information
Visit Codeplex here: http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators.

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Announcing List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

martinhj@microsoft.com — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:00:00 GMT

The List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has now been released. List Web Part can be installed on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1+ and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1+ . The List Web Part is free for download and use.

In addition to the features in previous release, the new enhancements are:

Multi-tenancy: Allows to choose the CRM organization to view data from
Supports CRM Internet-facing deployment
Supports SSL configurations
Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit environments
Editing of CRM Server URL : You can now edit CRM server url at anytime
Ability to open the current view in CRM to perform additional actions in CRM such as running reports, Quick Campaigns.
Supports personalized SharePoint pages
Enhanced Field-Field connections between two CRM List Web Parts. Subscriber CRM List Web part would automatically filter data by matching provider's GUID with all attributes of type provider, making it very easy to establish connections like Accounts - Opportunities
Supports Row-Row connection with 3rd party web parts
Supports SharePoint solution deployment (useful in server farms) and UnInstall
Will soon be available in all languages supported by CRM 4.0.

System requirements:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM® 4.0
Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services (WSS) 3.0 SP1+
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) 2007 SP1+

Download it and get more information here.

Note: All list web part users should have EntityRead, AttributeRead and RelationshipRead privileges granted in their security roles to enable List Web Part to fetch CRM metadata.

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 BizTalk Adapter Now Available

martinhj@microsoft.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:50:00 GMT

The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available. This adapter has the same functionality as the previously released 3.0 adapter, with the following updates:

Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
Supports form-based authentication
Supports multi-tenancy

With this adapter, you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 with any other non-Microsoft business application using the BizTalk server mapping capabilities, which allows you to discover and use the schema of any of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM entities.

Adapter is available at no additional charge for download here.

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Convergence 2008 - again in Copenhagen

martinhj@microsoft.com — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:23:00 GMT

In 2008, Convergence will again take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. This year it's on the 19-20th of November. This is your opportunity to participate in an exceptional program including a variety of speakers, detailed product demonstrations and hands-on learning sessions. You will learn how to enhance your Microsoft investment now and in the future, and gain a stronger sense of community through interacting with industry leaders, Microsoft team members, partners and other customers.

You can register now!

Enjoy! :-)

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team

Want some Dashboard inspiration?

martinhj@microsoft.com — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:50:00 GMT

Check this out - a blog post on Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX. For ERP what Dynamics CRM Dashboard is for CRM!

Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Martin Houlberg Jensen
CRM Evangelist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team