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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers you access to exciting new interactive and flexible Dashboards that contain any combination of Charts, Lists, iFrames and Silverlight components. These can be used to easily visualize your CRM data and provide you with a light BI interface, all of which this practical cookbook will enable you to utilize. At first glance, Dashboards and their myriad information can be overwhelming to users that are new to the Dynamics CRM 2011 interface. This book guides you through navigating and interacting with Dashboards in a simple and easy to follow manner, and builds on that experience to walk you through creating and sharing your own User Dashboards. "Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook"ù offers a range of practical recipes for mastering dashboard navigation, interaction, and building custom Dashboards in Dynamics CRM. You will immediately get to grips with essential tasks like changing Dashboard settings and sharing Dashboards with other members in the CRM team, as well as adding custom components like iFrames and Lists. Along the way you will also follow the creation of a simple HTML WebResouce that can be added to your Dashboard. By the end of "Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook"ù, you will be fully equipped to take advantage of the exciting new Dashboards features of Dynamics CRM 2011.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Author

Mark AuCoin is a Microsoft MVP and Senior CRM Solution Specialist for Navantis, which won the 2010 and 2011 CRM Solution Partner of the Year award from Microsoft Canada. Mark has been in the software industry since 1992 and has been involved in many different projects and technologies over that time. Starting out in client/server and ERP systems then migrating to the Internet and leveraging years of database and reporting skills he focused on building business-class web-enabled systems. Then Mark was introduced to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. He was impressed with the ability to focus more on the business requirements and “what” needs to get done instead of worrying so much about “how” it was going to get done. Since diving into Dynamics CRM in 2006, Mark has been involved in bringing a Dynamics CRM mobile solution to market, became a speaker at Dynamics CRM events, and has attained Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist status for Dynamics CRM in Canada.

Mark has a techinal blog at http://crmmongrel.blogspot.com.