Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year

Hello to all my blogreaders,

I wish everybody a happy new year and a succesfull 2010 and hopefully a great CRM year. Hope to see you all in 2010 also on my blog.

Best wishes

Hans Veldman

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Update on interesting CRM books

Hereby an update on what I think are really interesting CRM books to read during Christmas :).

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 in 24 Hours (Paperback) by Anne A. Stanton.
Order here.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 Integration Unleashed (Paperback)
Order here.

Special Edition Using Microsoft CRM (Paperback)
Order here.

The CRM Handbook: A Business Guide to Customer Relationship Management (Paperback)
Order here.

Scribe Microsoft Dynamics AX Adapter

Scribe has released the new adapter for integrating CRM with AX. I am looking forward to work with this adapter and doing an integration project between Dynamics CRM and Dynamics AX. For more information about the new release, please click here. More detailed information on the AX adapter will come within two weeks.

SalesCentric into administration

SalesCentric has filed for bankruptcy and I am terrible sorry for Matthew. I know Matthew a long time and I have always supported Relationship Charts and Custom Views on my blog. I think these addons are a really great functionality for Dynamics CRM and I only can recommend eveybody to use these products. If you are using one of the above products and you still need support for this, please contact me and hopefully I can help.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Blog on SoftwareAdvice.com

I recieved an email of Neal Houston if I want to post an article on the difference between Microsoft's Dynamics products.

If Google search results indicate the popularity of a topic, then there is clearly a lot of confusion over Microsoft's Dynamics products. A search for "the difference between Microsoft dynamics" returns 36,800 results!So with the recent launch of their ERP software service, Software Advice decided to shed some light on the Dynamics product family. Their article, "Microsoft Dynamics for Manufacturing – Understanding the Difference Between GP, NAV, SL and AX," explains how each product has evolved over the years and naturally become popular among certain industries and businesses. Check it out.


http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/manufacturing/understanding-the-difference-between-gp-nav-sl-ax-1111709/.

Please leave your comment because I'm curious on what my other colleagues think of this.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide 4.5.0

Microsoft has released version 4.5.0 of the Implementation Guide. This update is the English version, the Dutch version is 4.3.0. You can download the IG and Planning Tools here.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) 4.0.11

Microsoft has released version 4.0.11 of the SDK for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) is for developers, system customizers, and report writers. This SDK documentation contains information for developers writing server side code, custom business logic, integration modules, workflow assemblies, and plug-ins. It provides an architectural overview of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the entity model, security model, and Web services. Sample code and walkthroughs are provided to guide you through the new features. It also contains information for developers customizing the Web client or Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook, including scripting, integration of custom Web pages, sample code, and a detailed user interface style guide. In addition to the documentation, this download package includes the projects for all sample code found in the documentation, and full featured samples that are not included in the documentation. The package includes a visual style guide you can use to make your customizations fit in smoothly, and a style sheet you can use as a basis for your work. There are also tools and helper code provided in this package. Look for regular updates to this SDK!November 10, 2009 - Updated the assemblies in the Bin folder. Use these updated assemblies instead of the ones in the previous release of SDK 4.0.10.If you need assemblies or schema files prior to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Update Rollup 7 and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service Update, you can download the SDK 4.0.9 from this location: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/E/C/DECA6FF2-2683-4E7A-B9A2-1CEB8AF971AE/CrmSdk4.0.9.exe

For downloading version 4.0.11, please click here.

SORRY

SORRY SORRY SORRY for not blogging for a while. It has been a very busy last months for me. I have setup my own business and this has taken all my time. Furthermore I am working on 2 CRM projects, one at the Dutch Redcross and one in the Transport industry. Very nice project to do... and it keeps me busy all time :). I am finalizing some partner contract for my business so this is going great also. Keep you al posted and of coure check my blogs, website and Twitter.