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From CRM 2011 to CRM 2015: Sales, Service and Marketing

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This is the fourth in a series of articles discussing the CRM upgrades available to organizations who are on CRM 2011, and are considering the leap to 2015.  This entry takes a look at the new functionality specific to the sales, service (aka customer care, inside sales, customer support) and marketing.  All three of these functional areas received upgrades in both CRM 2013 and again in CRM 2015.  That's a lot to cover - let's dive in!

Sales Intelligence Options for CRM Solutions

Sales Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management - Salesforce and Dynamics CRM

The Internet and tighter budgets have forever changed how prospects are making buying decisions.  Research in the book tells us that prospects are over 50% of the way through the buying process by the time they initiate contact with a vendor. 

Sales Intelligence solutions, integrated with CRM, are a part of the answer to this dilemma.  In this article, we will take a look at the top sales intelligence solutions on the market today.

Quick Tip: Finding the Activity Feed Solution

It has come to our attention that the Activity Feed solution is temporarily unavailable for download from the Microsoft Marketplace (the link for the download had been: http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/microsoft-dynamics-crm-activity-feeds-12884926310).

Fortunately, we had downloaded a recent copy of this for a client deployment. If you need a copy of the file, please contact us (click here) and request the file and we will email it to you. To install it:

  1. Be sure you are running UR6 or later (we have tested it on UR8)
  2. Import the .cab file into CRM as a solution

It is provided without warranty, but we have installed it in a test environment and it works without an issue. If you become aware of the download becoming available again, please reply to this post so we can update it accordingly.

Thanks!

 

UPDATE 6/11/2012: The solution is now available from the Microsoft Marketplace again. You can now visit the above link to download it directly. Cheers!

Adding a Twitter Feed to CRM Leads

Twitter Feed on CRM Form

When reviewing a lead, account or contact prior to a sales call, it is always helpful to have as much context about a company prior to making the call.  Putting a Twitter feed on the CRM record for a lead can put this information in a place where it is easy for a sales person to quickly see it.  By passing in the name of the company dynamically, the feed can show relevant information about the specific company.

Twitter makes it pretty easy to generate the “base” code for integrating with CRM (or any website) as a widget.  You can find their tools for generating widgets here.  Even if you use my code, below, as a starting point, you’ll likely find this link helpful as you start to fine-tune your code a bit.

Activity Feeds, CRM 2011 Online and Windows Phone

Activity Feeds are a great new social feature in CRM 2011 that was made available with the November 2011 update.  Many organizations using CRM 2011 have begun to gain tremendous benefit by enabling Activity Feeds and training their users on how to take advantage of them.  Not as many, however, have started to use the Activity Feeds app for their Windows Phones yet.  This app has some great features, but it also takes a few tricks to get it working with CRM 2011.  This post will focus on the specifics of using Activity Feeds on a Windows Phone – and fixing a known bug with CRM 2011 Online and Activity Feeds on your Windows Phone.

Collapse and Expand: Working with Tabs in CRM 2011

CRM 2011 forms include “tabs” to help organize information.  If you are a user of previous versions of CRM you know that tabs used to be presented across the top of a form.  In CRM 2011 tabs are now presented vertically.  Read on for the advantages of this change.

Review: Scribe Insight 7.0 for Dynamics CRM Integration

Scribe Insight 7.0 was released just a few days ago. As many of you know, Scribe is an outstanding tool for data migration and systems integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM as well as for Salesforce.com.  I had the opportunity to get access to this release early and have been happily surprised by what I've seen.  This posting provides a brief overview of some of the updates and details on some of my favorite new functionality.

CRM Solution Accelerators Coming Soon

At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC) in Houston last week, Microsoft announced the rollout of a bunch of Solution Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.  These will be great tools to significantly improve CRM functionality. Best of all, the accelerators are "free" (see caveaut below).

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