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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

Microsoft Cloud offerings


Different vendors have different views about cloud and cloud computing. The Microsoft view is: "An approach to computing that's about Internet scale and connecting to a variety of devices and endpoints. "Microsoft has a comprehensive strategy of cloud computing as Software + Service that spans the application, platform, and infrastructure businesses, both for consumer and enterprise. Currently Microsoft offers three distinct flavors of cloud services:

  • SaaS (Software-as-a-Service): Office 365, CRM /ERP Online, Windows Intune

  • PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service): Windows Azure platform

  • IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service): Hyper-V Private Cloud

For more information about Microsoft Cloud, please visits http://www.microsoft.com/cloud.

Windows Azure platform

The Windows Azure platform includes a cloud services operating system and a set of developer services, which provide functionality to build applications that span from consumer Web to enterprise scenarios.

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