Providing great customer service is fundamental to any organisation. It can make a significant difference to whether a customer will continue to interact with you or more importantly – not. Just like the saying goes… ‘A happy customer will tell a friend; an unhappy customer will tell the world’. So,
Read the full article hereThe ability to use Silverlight in CRM 2011 is a great improvement over ASP.NET ASPX. Especially since Silverlight is supported in all deployment types (On-premise, Partner hosted, Online). Therefore it makes sense to use Silverlight instead of ASP.NET ASPX pages. One of the biggest challenges we fac
Read the full article here* There have been many improvements made to the customizations area in Dynamics CRM 2011. In this post I will cover two of these, first of which will be the easy creation of relationships, and the other being, once you have the relationship created, to insert a sub-grid onto the form. You will disco
Read the full article hereThere have been many occasions where CRM users have asked for filtered lookups. What are filtered lookups you ask? Let’s say you have an entity with a lookup field to Account and another lookup field to Contact. You want to be able to select an Account from the first lookup, and then choose a Contac
Read the full article hereLet me share with you some case studies and videos about how companies improve their business with Sales Force Automation software like Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Here are their success stories. Case Studies: • “Large Finance Company Builds Ideal Sales Force Automation Tool by Harnessing Dataflow.” Le
Read the full article hereLet me share with you some case studies and videos about how companies improve their business with Sales Force Automation software like Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Here are their success stories. Case Studies: • “Large Finance Company Builds Ideal Sales Force Automation Tool by Harnessing Dataflow.” Le
Read the full article hereWe are proud to announce that under Microsoft’s new Partner Network requirements Magnetism has achieved the Gold Customer Relationship Management competency – the highest recognition for a CRM partner! Competencies awarded to us by Microsoft help us as a business to demonstrate our expertise to you
Read the full article hereIf you already have your organization set up on Dynamics CRM 2011, then the steps described in this blog will show you how you can designate Magnetism as your organizations Dynamics CRM 2011 Partner on Record. If you haven’t yet got Dynamics CRM 2011, I recommend you read my previous blog post on Ho
Read the full article hereThe full version of Dynamics CRM 2011 has now been released, and if you want to get your hands on the trial version, all you have to do is follow the steps below to get started right away. 1. Follow this link: http://crm.dynamics.com/en-nz/trial-overview. 2. Click on ‘Try Now’. 3. You will then be
Read the full article hereWith CRM 2011 all JavaScript is now saved into the solution and to write the script it now has to be included in a function - people who are used to the old way of writing JavaScript may find this difficult at first, but it does get easier. While updating some JavaScript that I had written from CRM
Read the full article hereThe friendship between Dynamics CRM 4.0 and the online mapping solution created by Bing is strengthening with each new solution we develop. Here at Magnetism, we have found new ways to integrate the two applications in order to build rich mapping experiences for our Dynamics CRM clients. One of our
Read the full article hereAdvanced finds in Dynamics CRM 2011 are very similar to advanced finds in Dynamics CRM 4.0 in how they work, however there are a few subtle differences that shouldn’t go unnoticed. The Query part of the advanced find works exactly the same as in Dynamics CRM 4.0, in that you set the query in the fo
Read the full article hereLet me start by saying this is not recommended and not supported by Microsoft. We’re replacing an old financial/lending application with Dynamics CRM 4; everything is going great so far except for the fact that it takes way too long to run a process that gets run every three days which processes 10
Read the full article hereOur team has just finished integrating Dynamics CRM with Bing maps to enable users to perform interactive queries to list all contacts in certain area. The tool is very quick and easy to use. One of most important components is enabling users to reuse saved queries from CRM, so users can predefine n
Read the full article hereWith a good CRM system, there is no excuse for not testing and optimising your marketing campaigns. * Marketing Research Marketing research is the systematic gathering, recording, and analysis of data about issues relating to marketing products and services. The goal of marketing research is to iden
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