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Fundamentals of CRM with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

By : Nicolae Tarla
Book Image

Fundamentals of CRM with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

By: Nicolae Tarla

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides a vast array of tools and applications to meet various Customer Engagement requirements. This Customer Relationship Management (CRM) guide covers the latest advancements in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform that help organizations adapt to changing market conditions for agility and resilience. With this book, you'll explore the core platform functionality of Dynamics 365 and explore its wide range of components for transforming your business with new services and capabilities. You’ll learn the basics of configuration and customization to enhance the functionality of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and create solutions and custom applications by leveraging features such as apps, portals, automation, and business intelligence. As you advance, you’ll understand how Power Platform drives Dynamics 365 and how various integration capabilities add value by providing a comprehensive view of data aggregated across different systems and data sources. Finally, you’ll delve into core administration concepts that will help you to manage extensions added to the platform. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to tailor Microsoft Dynamics 365 to fit your organization’s requirements and tweak the platform to meet your business needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1 - Platform Structure and Extensibility Capabilities
4
Section 2 - Default Modules Available with the Platform
10
Section 3 - Customization, Configuration, and Extensibility
14
Section 4 - Integrations
17
Section 5 - Administration

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we learned how to create a small targeted application with great flexibility and speed. We learned that the no/low code approach really pays off and has an important role in any business.

While building the application, we covered concepts around solutions and solution packages, as well as configuring entities and relationships. We also looked at some of the functionality around enforcing SLAs and geolocation.

In the next chapter, we'll move on and look at the core configuration and customization concepts available in Dynamics 365. Now that we have an understanding of the core applications and the ability to build additional apps, we have the necessary toolset to learn how to get more out of this great, flexible platform.