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CRM Activity Usage Report
by Danny Varghese 10.20.09

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My colleague Jeremy Hofmann has been busy at one of our clients providing them valuable solutions to meet their business needs. Below is another great example of how Jeremy has harnessed the customizability of CRM! Business Problem: Do your clients need...
CRM Custom Browse Folder
by Danny Varghese 10.17.09

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My colleague Jeremy Hofmann has been busy at one of our clients providing them valuable solutions to meet their business needs. Below is a great example of how Jeremy has harnessed the customizability of CRM! Business Problem: We’ve given the client a...
CRM Developer Ramp-Up Kit
by Danny Varghese 10.13.09

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Microsoft has a great article containing tools to help a CRM developer ramp up. The article includes presentations and labs that will help complement a developer's .NET skills to help build on top of the CRM 4.0 platform. The article contains links...
Rules To Better Microsoft CRM & SSRS
by Danny Varghese 02.21.09

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Below are some very useful links on standards for Microsoft CRM and SQL Server Reporting Services: http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulestoBetterMicrosoftCRM.aspx http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx...
Using CRM Workflow To Create Audit Trail
by Danny Varghese 01.20.09

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There's an excellent post on the MSDN CRM blog on how to create an audit trail using the CRM 4.0 workflow. I've had numerous customer requests for an audit trail of entities when a field changes. Clients want to know when certain fields change...
Microsoft CRM 4.0 and Windows Presentation Foundation
by Jeremy Hofmann 12.26.08

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Interesting in building a dashboard for CRM 4.0? In this article, I’ll show you how to build your own custom CRM dashboards, using Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation to construct the user interface. This dashboard will run as a standalone Windows...
CRM Custom RSS Feed in less than 30 minutes
by Mitchell Kett 07.11.08

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One of the best ways to improve a client's business is to keep users better informed and up-to-date on the information provided by CRM. A workflow could be created (and maintained) to send out an email to the appropriate parties when a specific event...
Enterprise CRM - What to Look for in a CRM Admin
by Jeremy Hofmann 06.04.08

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Depending on your company’s size and installed number of users, you may or may not need a dedicated CRM admin. Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a product that lends itself to a power user for day to day maintenance and administration. However, if you have a...
Leveraging CRM as part of a solution to Page Technical Support in your Company
by Zahara Hirani 04.14.08

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Recently at a client we had the challenge of developing a solution that would alert technical support when a case that was updated and needed tech support to look into the issue. At first we thought workflows, but then realized we needed to create a custom...
Cloning An Entity In CRM
by Danny Varghese 03.26.08

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Intro We’ve had requests from our clients to “clone” already created records at the click of a button. The reason is that when users are entering data into numerous records of the same entity every day, where only a few fields may differ, it can be cumbersome...
Sorting By Multiple Columns In Microsoft CRM
by Danny Varghese 03.25.08

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Microsoft CRM views in 3.0 are a great way to view important parts of records in a clear concise manner. The views also offer sorting which is an even greater plus for many users. What may not be known however is that users can sort by multiple columns...
Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 – The Tortoise and the Hare
by Jeremy Cox 02.14.08

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As a father of a 2 ½ and 7 month old, I spend A LOT of time reading to my kids. As you’ll recall from the story, the hare was speedy and boasted about being the fastest in the forest. The tortoise finally tired of hearing all of the hare’s boasting challenged...
CRM as a Platform (Part 1)
by Bryan Van Antwerp 01.30.08

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Opinions differ on whether CRM is, can be, or should be an application platform. The points of contention are typically terminology and technology. Rather than focus on semantics, I want to focus on the possibilities the MS CRM application provides –...
Welcome Back to the Crowe CRM Blog
by Bryan Van Antwerp 01.22.08

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We are back with a much improved blog! CRM 4.0 is out now which brings a lot of fodder for posts. Expect to see several new posts by members of the Crowe CRM Team on such topics as 3 rd Party Add-ins/Applications, upgrading CRM 3.0 to 4.0, new 4.0 features...
Understanding Contract Statuses
by Cullen Hunter 09.03.07

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Cullen Hunter Crowe Chizek and Company LLC http://www.crowecrm.com Summary: Cullen Hunter explains the sometimes confusing contract statuses. The Microsoft CRM 3.0 contracts functionality allows you to track contracts through the entire contract lifecycle...