• Statement of Work

      Cindy Cator, 18 February 2010

      The starting point for implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects in Sure Step 2010 Agile   Once the sales team has summarise the scope, skills requirements, dependencies, activities, timelines, and budget restrictions; the statement of Work is set to go………….. I have found this document a powerful

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    • 8912A Customization and Configuration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

      Simon Phillips, 17 February 2010

      How many of you just wish you could change that one thing in CRM that is bugging you without annoying or bugging the admin or have to get an expert in to do an easy fix job? Well this course is the one for you it teaches you all you need to know about customizing your CRM from editing or creating an

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    • I’ve joined the Academy!

      Megan Walsh, 15 February 2010

      “First off, I’d like to thank the Academy...” Only a handful of people get to start their sentences like that, usually while clutching a little golden statue. I haven’t won an Oscar (yet), however, I do have reason to thank the Academy – the Microsoft Dynamics Partner Academy that is. The Partner A

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    • 80003A Workflow in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

      Simon Phillips, 13 February 2010

      Hi my name is Simon I recently left school and started an internship specialising in Dynamics CRM, keen to build my knowledge after completing the applications course of CRM i decided to take the workflow course which is a more in depth course that shows you how to create complex workflows. They ca

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    • SureStep 2010

      Cindy Cator, 11 February 2010

      Confidence, Control and Visibility between you and your Customer   If you’ve been in Software development or on the receiving end of it you may have experienced that there are often common drawbacks that sidetrack a CRM or Software implementation. Magnetism adopted the Sure Step Methodology for CRM

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    • Daily Scrum - Live Meeting

      Megan Walsh, 10 February 2010

      Project Manager Blog Since adopting the Scrum Agile development methodology we have found the Daily Scrum meetings to be really effective in providing a high level of transparency and accountability. With staff based in several locations we have recently started using Microsoft Office Live Meeting t

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    • CRMAppPool Number of Worker Processes and Plugins

      Gayan Perera, 09 February 2010

      I recently came across some strange behaviour in dynamics crm. It seems that if you increase the number of worker processes from 1 (default) to n and you have plugins running synchronously crm will throw access denied exceptions randomly when the load is high on the server. Unhandled Exception: *.

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    • Sure Step 2010 New and Improved FREE

      Mark Smith, 30 December 2009

      On December the 17th Microsoft released the 3rd version (3.0.11.0) of Sure Step. We were involved in the TAP program for this release, so I have had time to understand the product over the past months. Once again Microsoft has continued to improve on the past product. Templates have been added to an

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    • Mobile Express for Dynamics CRM V.Next / CRM 5

      Mark Smith, 22 September 2009

      Over the coming weeks I will be writing a few high level posts regarding the future of Dynamics CRM and what we can expect. With all Statement of Directions it’s worth noting "that individual features may be added, amended or dropped during" the timeline of development.   V.Next will continue to de

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    • Tax rules for Dynamics CRM

      Gayan Perera, 08 September 2009

      Now you can automatically apply tax to opportunities, quotes, orders and invoices without having to write javascript or custom code, simply create a tax rule record in crm and watch it magically calculate the tax amounts.   You can specify a tax rate per product, per currency or a global tax rate.

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    • Success at the Microsoft Partner Awards

      Megan Walsh, 03 September 2009

      The Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards were held last Thursday night at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland. Representatives from more than 160 New Zealand Partners attended the cocktail event, of which only 16 company's were awarded the much coveted Microsoft Partner Awards across 17 categories.   Magne

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    • Local Paper write story on the Microsoft Awards

      Mark Smith, 02 September 2009

      Local community paper just published the following: Whangarei Leader

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    • Judges’ Comments - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year

      Mark Smith, 30 August 2009

      Magnetism’s solution was a great example of an xRM project covering payroll and recruitment, with significant complexity involved in the payroll functionality of the solution. Tight integration to third party systems and the use of the Microsoft stack including dashboards and Silverlight further s

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    • We WON "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year"

      Mark Smith, 29 August 2009

      Well what a night, last Thursday we waited in anticipation as one of three finalists gen-i, Intergin, and Magnetism all vying for the esteemed title of "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year” to here the announcement that we had won was incredible. When back at the office the first thing I did

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    • Microsoft Partner Awards for New Zealand

      Mark Smith, 31 July 2009

      We are proud to anounce that we have been nomitated as finalists in the Microsoft Partner Awards for New Zealand. We achieved this in the category of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solution of the Year. So now fingers crossed for the final results..... List of all Finalists can be found here.

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