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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Customization - Second Edition

By : Nicolae Tarla
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Customization - Second Edition

By: Nicolae Tarla

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a Microsoft solution to satisfy the various needs of customer relationship management and is already equipped to be flexible to meet the needs of businesses. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, many new features were added for social, marketing, sales, and integration with other tools. These features add many dimensions to customization. This book will not only showcase how CRM can be customized, but will also be your guide on how the latest advancements in Dynamics CRM 2016 can be used to benefit your business. You will learn how to enhance the functionality of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 and use it to serve different businesses of various scales. You will see how to get ready to customize CRM and then quickly move on to grasp the CRM app structure, which will help you customize Dynamics CRM better. You will find out how to customize CRM for sales, service, marketing, and social. We’ll also show you how CRM 2016 can be seamlessly embedded into various productivity tools, and how to customize CRM for machine learning and contextual guidance. Finally, we’ll also cover the latest advancements in CRM’s mobile capabilities and its complete offline support so you can better customize it.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Customization Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Web API


While presented as a developer-oriented enhancement added to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, the Web API is one of the features that even non-developers should be aware of when evaluating the platform's ability to integrate and communicate with other tools.

The Web API provides the ability to communicate with various other programming languages, platforms, and devices. The protocol implemented is Open Data Protocol (OData), version 4.0. This is a standard used for building RESTful APIs, and allows resources to be published to various web-enabled clients using simple HTTP messages.

For technical details on the standards, see the protocol documentation provided by OASIS:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/os/part1-protocol/odata-v4.0-os-part1-protocol.html

Due to the no-code nature of this book, we will not cover in detail the various aspects of this protocol, but it is important to remember that this is what enables various applications, on a multitude of platforms, to communicate...