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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By : Mahender Pal
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By: Mahender Pal

Overview of this book

<p>Businesses can have their developers build complete apps or plug-ins and interfaces to suit their business needs. With the application of MS CRM, administrators can alter the content, layout, and business logic for each business use case. Businesses can choose to run Dynamics CRM on their own internal server or to link to web-hosted installations. This book is an enhanced guide that covers all the new features released with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015. Coming straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements, this book is a complete guide for all your Dynamics CRM questions.</p> <p>Starting off, this book will introduce you to the deployment options such as online and on-premise, and the software and hardware requirements as CRM customization. It will also teach you how to develop a sample application.</p> <p>Going deeper, this book teaches you about the new enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 such as business process, new client-side scripting, mobile application, and actions enhancements. You will quickly get up and running with plugin development and project tracking concepts with the help of sample applications.</p> <p>The book concludes with how Microsoft Dynamics CRM extends its mobile capabilities and bring more feature-rich experience to the app users.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Licensing model for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015


Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 have a flexible licensing model for both on-premise and online customers, which enables customers to mix and match new licenses based on how they use the CRM 2015 functionality. CRM 2015 on-premise and online deployment offers the following types of licenses:

  • Enterprise (online only)

  • Basic

  • Professional

  • Essential

The following table provides details about these license-type features:

License type

Description

Enterprise

This license provides full access to Sales, Marketing and Service features, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing, and Parature.

Basic

This license is essential and provides access to system entities, such as accounts, contact, case, lead, reporting, and personal dashboard.

Professional

This license provides full access to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 functionality and any custom application.

Essential

This license includes access to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 system, activities, custom entities, and any custom application. This license also provides access to SDK.

Access to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 using different clients is available in all license types. Now, in CRM 2015, there is no need to buy external user licenses for external users (the users who are not employees or affiliates) unless they are not using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 clients to access applications, an external user license is covered under server license for on-premise. So, if we are required to develop any portal application to expose CRM data to our customers, it can be done without an external user license.

Note

You can download the licensing guide from PartnerSource at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45904.