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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization Essentials

By : Nicolae Tarla
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization Essentials

By: Nicolae Tarla

Overview of this book

<p>Dynamics CRM is Microsoft's answer to customer relationship management. The platform's flexibility allows system customizers to enhance its functionality to map any kind of business and scale to any size.</p> <p>Through this practical guide, you will develop a vital and holistic understanding of the key features of Dynamics CRM. You will work with entities within the existing modules, learn how to customize and extend entities, and explore how to create logical relationships between them. You will also look at business rules and business process flows and learn how to use these features to enforce and visually enhance user experience. Furthermore, you will customize business entities without using code and cover the new features in Dynamics CRM. By the end of the book, you will have acquired new marketable skills in developing software for businesses running Dynamics CRM.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The customization area


The Customization area is where most developers and solution and deployment administrators spend their time. As shown here, this area comprises three sections: CUSTOMIZATION, SOLUTIONS, and DYNAMICS MARKETPLACE:

Dynamics marketplace

Dynamics Marketplace is the app store for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Here, partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can commercialize their specific applications and solution extensions. This concept was introduced with Dynamics CRM 2011 and is meant to simplify the process of selling solutions for Dynamics CRM and to provide a common area for all solutions to be made available. While this is a good concept, not all ISVs commercialize their solutions through the Dynamics Marketplace.

Dynamics Marketplace is a searchable repository from within your Dynamics CRM organization. The following screenshot shows that you can filter the results by popularity and date, or you can navigate to the online repository:

The online repository is powered...