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Dynamics 365 Application Development

By : Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana
Book Image

Dynamics 365 Application Development

By: Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is the most trusted name in enterprise-level customer relationship management. The latest version of Dynamics CRM comes with the important addition of exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. It comes straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements. This book will introduce you to the components of the new designer tools, such as SiteMap, App Module, and Visual Designer for Business Processes. Going deeper, this book teaches you how to develop custom SaaS applications leveraging the features of PowerApps available in Dynamics 365. Further, you will learn how to automate business processes using Microsoft Flow, and then we explore Web API, the most important platform update in Dynamics 365 CRM. Here, you'll also learn how to implement Web API in custom applications. You will learn how to write an Azure-aware plugin to design and integrate cloud-aware solutions. The book concludes with configuring services using newly released features such as Editable grids, Data Export Service, LinkedIn Integration, Relationship Insights, and Live Assist
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Configure Microsoft Cognitive services

In Chapter 9, Using Editable Grids in Apps, we learned how to configure Editable Grid and how to make use of different methods and events supported by the Grid. In this chapter, we will look into Microsoft Cognitive Services and how to integrate them with Dynamics 365. Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs, which can be used to add artificial intelligence capabilities into applications.

Note

The Cognitive Services Integration with Dynamics 365 is still in Public Preview and is only available for instances in the United States (US) region.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following points:

  • Overview of Microsoft Cognitive Services
  • Connect Dynamics 365 with Microsoft Cognitive Services
  • Implement Text Analytics APIs for suggesting knowledge articles, similar cases, and document suggestions