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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

Understanding Microsoft Cognitive Services


Microsoft Cognitive Services can be defined as a collection of APIs that can be easily configured and consumed to bring powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to applications, websites, and bots. Microsoft Cognitive Services are standard JSON-based REST APIs which can be consumed from a number of popular languages like Curl, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and so on. Early in 2015, Microsoft had released a set of technologies under Project Oxford that allowed developers to build more intelligent apps incorporating Machine Learning aspects, which was then later rebranded to Microsoft Cognitive Services. Currently, Microsoft Cognitive Services consists of different APIs such as Computer Vision API, Video API, Bing Speech API, Text Analytics API, Recommendations API, Bing Image Search API, and so on, categorized into Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge and Speech.

Note

A list of different Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs is available at https...