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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features

By : Jim Wang, Darren Liu
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features

By: Jim Wang, Darren Liu

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers exciting new features that enable you to build and maintain a robust customer relationship management system in your organisation.This book is your one stop resource to get to grips with all the new features of Dynamics CRM 2011. To make learning fun and engaging, we will build an Airline Compensation Management (ACM) system using Dynamics CRM 2011.The book starts by setting up the development environment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. We will then build a structural architecture for the ACM system and configure it in Dynamics CRM 2011. While doing this, we will learn about the new customization features offered by Dynamics CRM 2011.We will then move on to Data Importing and will cover the Import Data Wizard tool, as well as the Import file/data web service which provides additional capabilities that are not available in the Import Data Wizard.We will use client-side programming to perform data validation, automation, and process enhancement and learn powerful event driven server-side programming methods: Plug-Ins and Processes (Formerly Workflows).The book then steers you towards SharePoint integration, Charts and Dashboards, Customizing the Ribbon and Sitemap, and extending Dynamics CRM 2011 in the cloud. Finally we will package the ACM solution and learn how to deploy it.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in the Cloud

Cloud computing is becoming the future of IT. To reduce costs and improve agility and reliability, more and more business applications are moving to the cloud.

In this task, we will introduce Microsoft Cloud offerings and we will set up a portal site on the Windows Azure platform and let it talk to Microsoft CRM 2011 Online. The Azure portal will allow crew members to view and update their information, and see how their compensation is composed. All operations will be synchronized into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online. So we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Microsoft Cloud Offerings

  • CRM 2011 Portal Solutions

  • Customer Portal for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

  • CRM E-mail Support