• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Visio Stencil Set - Part 5

      Simon Phillips, 21 December 2010

      In all my other posts I have shown you all the elements that have been built to help you create a mock-up of what an entity will look like well now I am going to show you the whole image and what you can expect to be able to show to your customers (This may not be exactly what the final stencil look

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    • Putting a Face to the Name in a Dynamics CRM Record

      Gayan Perera, 20 December 2010

      We recently added a neat little customization to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 organization so that when you open a contact record it goes off to LinkedIn, finds the persons picture if there is one and displays it on the contact record. It’s very similar to the Social Connector in Outlook, if you’d li

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    • I needed Sales Force Automation to Align, Qualify, Close, Grow and Optimize my Business

      Mark Smith, 19 December 2010

      Let me discuss further about Sales Force Automation. Who uses Sales Force Automation or SFA? Any company or business can use the Sales Force Automation strategy.  It doesn’t matter what line of business you are in, whether a large corporation or a small business -  sales automation softwar

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    • I needed Sales Force Automation to Align, Qualify, Close, Grow and Optimize my Business

      Mark Smith, 19 December 2010

      Let me discuss further about Sales Force Automation. Who uses Sales Force Automation or SFA? Any company or business can use the Sales Force Automation strategy.  It doesn’t matter what line of business you are in, whether a large corporation or a small business -  sales automation softwar

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    • Microsoft CRM Standard Sales Accreditation – Help!

      Louise Alderton, 18 December 2010

      A lot of you may be aware with the new requirements that came out in October many of Microsoft’s competencies require you to have sales professionals pass the Standard Sales or Presales Accreditation. For Magnetism I am one of the lucky people who get to tackle this exam. Easy I thought! Well now

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    • Microsoft CRM Standard Sales Accreditation – Help!

      Louise Alderton, 18 December 2010

      A lot of you may be aware with the new requirements that came out in October many of Microsoft’s competencies require you to have sales professionals pass the Standard Sales or Presales Accreditation. For Magnetism I am one of the lucky people who get to tackle this exam. Easy I thought! Well now

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    • Easy Social Connector Creation

      Vitalii Symon, 17 December 2010

      Nowadays any social network offers wide range of information sharing facilities including easy sharing links from 3rd party websites. Social network offers to install small button onto your website and single click will put link to your content to Facebook, Twitter - whatever feed and your resource

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    • What are Connections in CRM 2011?

      Roshan Mehta, 16 December 2010

      Dynamics CRM 4.0 has a very useful feature known as Relationships which allow you to link Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities with each other using a set of defined relationship roles. However, the limitation of only being able to define relationships between these three entities can be problemati

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    • Customizing Dynamics CRM 2011 with SketchFlow Stencils

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 15 December 2010

      In some of my past blogs, I showed that I had created the Dynamics CRM 2011 Account form and Main Window using only Expression Blend 4 SketchFlow and the stencils I developed for performing customizations. But I didn’t really show how you can use the stencils. So in this post I’m going to be showing

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    • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Visio Stencil Set - Part 4

      Simon Phillips, 14 December 2010

      If you have read my other 3 blogs you will know that I am currently building a CRM 2011 Visio Stencil Set you will also know all about the features and controls that I have added to all the different field types and side navigation items that I have already built. In this blog I am going to go over

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    • Spying on Dynamics CRM Plugin Messages

      Gayan Perera, 13 December 2010

      Finding out what information gets handed to you via the IPluginExecutionContext is not easy, most of the time you’ll hook up a remote debugger or write to a log file to find out which is tedious and time consuming to setup. To help you, we’ve created an application that you can run on your desktop,

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    • Cost-benefit and CRM System Development

      John Eccles, 12 December 2010

      I have already touched on why a new CRM system should be implemented in stages in my blog on Smart Implementation of CRM. Now I will discuss how you go about developing your Dynamics CRM system from the basic first stage (pilot) system into the system which represents optimum value for money for you

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    • Build, Buy or xRM?

      Louise Alderton, 11 December 2010

      When it comes to software businesses often will go right to the question – Build or Buy? But what if there is another option? In this post I will outline the positives and negatives of each of these options as well as explain another that you may not have considered, and may just be the answer you w

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    • Build, Buy or xRM?

      Louise Alderton, 11 December 2010

      When it comes to software businesses often will go right to the question – Build or Buy? But what if there is another option? In this post I will outline the positives and negatives of each of these options as well as explain another that you may not have considered, and may just be the answer you w

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    • Alternate methods of MPhone algorithms implementation

      Vitalii Symon, 10 December 2010

      Problem statement Initially the mPhone library was created when we faced a problem to create a method to parse a database of European phone numbers which has lots of different and sometimes terrible formats. * In the beginning, on day one we had eight number formats which were looking pretty easy to

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