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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

By : Mahender Pal
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

By: Mahender Pal

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement (CE) is one of the leading customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that help companies to effectively communicate with their customers and allows them to transform their marketing strategies. Complete with detailed explanations of the essential concepts and practical examples, this book will guide you through the entire life cycle of implementing Dynamics 365 CE for your organization or clients, and will help you avoid common pitfalls while increasing efficiency at every stage of the project. Starting with the foundational concepts, the book will gradually introduce you to Microsoft Dynamics 365 features, plans, and products. You’ll learn various implementation strategies and requirement gathering techniques, and then design the application architecture by converting your requirements into technical and functional designs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to configure your CRM system to meet your organizational needs, customize Dynamics 365 CE, and extend its capabilities by writing client-side and server-side code. Finally, you’ll integrate Dynamics 365 CE with other applications and explore its business intelligence capabilities. By the end of this Microsoft Dynamics 365 book, you’ll have gained an in-depth understanding of all the key components necessary for successful Dynamics 365 CE implementation.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Understanding deployment options

Dynamics 365 CE is for everyone, whether you want to utilize a cloud infrastructure, or you want to reuse your existing infrastructure for Dynamics 365 CE. In a broad way, we can deploy Dynamics 365 CE using the following options.

Cloud

This is the easiest and simplest option if you wish to utilize Dynamics 365 CE capabilities by taking out a Dynamics 365 subscription from Microsoft. Dynamics 365 CE online is hosted on Microsoft Azure datacenters, which are located across the globe. Microsoft has datacenter regions in the United States, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, and Oceania.

Refer to http://o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net/ for a complete list of datacenters.

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