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Microsoft has released Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data Migration Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Language Pack, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router.
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This white paper details techniques, considerations, and best practices for optimizing and maintaining the performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 implementations.
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Sharon Barclay, who runs the executive public-relations firm Blue Trumpet Group and the blog UberCEO, took Fortune's 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs and found what she calls a "miserable level of engagement" when it comes to social networks.
Barclay only found two CEOs with Twitter accounts, and only 13 had profiles on LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. She found only 19 with a personal Facebook page, and while three-quarters had "some kind of" entry on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, many of those entries had incorrect titles, missing information or a lack of sources.
"I would think an executive at that level would want to exploit (an online) network as much as possible," Barclay said. "But the only executives using LinkedIn well were people in technology."
Michael Dell, the CEO of computer maker Dell Inc., Gregory Spierkel, the head of technology products distributor Ingram Micro, and John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., were three company heads Barclay said stood out from the pack on LinkedIn. Each had more than 80 "connections," links to other professionals.
QlikView Version 9 is now available. QlikView is a product by QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence [BI] company.
Its flagship BI product accesses and analyzes real-time operational data to provide meaningful business answers. QlikView has set the standard for BI simplicity, usability and time to value.
QlikView version 9:
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Free Trial version here
Free iPhone cliënt here
Release 2 of 3 for the Analytics Accelerator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is available. This release incorporates some bug fixes to the existing dashboards for SQL Server 2005. It also introduces a set of dashboards for SQL Server 2008.
The following future releases are going through final testing and packaging and will be available soon:
Analytics Accelerator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (R2) is designed to support a range of business intelligence “maturity” levels for customers and partners. The Analytics accelerator has been built to cater for differing business intelligence skill-sets and experience levels.
Read more / Download [Codeplex]
iDcrm version 1.1 is available for Direct Customers and Business Partners.
iDcrm 1.1 has also been uploaded in the Apple App Store (Count 1 week 1/2 for the release in the App Store).
The new version is a major upgrade:
- initial sync improvement: filters in order to synchronize with large DB (My data only, time filters, activity type filters).
- Missing standard entities: now you can use all the available standard entities of Microsoft.
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The Relationship Charts 4.5 Silverlight VPC version is now available for you to download and use in customer demonstrations.
Key features:
Accounts and Sub Accounts
Easily manage one-to-many and many-to-many relationships. For example, reorganize Accounts and their Sub-Accounts and save to CRM
Automatic Charts
Define rules to create charts in one move
Any CRM Entity
Relationship Charts within any CRM or Custom entity. Display Users, any CRM
entity or custom entity on a chart
Drag and drop
To store relationships between users and contacts, even when defined within custom entities
I found a nice tool by Dynamics CRM Tools, that allows you to create a new header for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 application.
With this tool, you can choose an image and merge it with the header background of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The program manages transparency, size and position of the image on the header background.
Read more / download [Dynamics CRM Tools]
Microsoft and Intel Corporation announced performance results for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that set new enterprise standards for scalability, cost and environmental sustainability.
Through a combination of enterprise-class software and the latest Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, which can reduce server power consumption by up to 30 percent, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 scaled to more than 50,000 concurrent users over a high-volume workload — while experiencing subsecond response times.
By comparison, an October 2008 performance test for Oracle Siebel Release 8.0 (1) scaled to 14,000 users and 1.6 million daily transactions leveraging Sun hardware that cost more than $150,000. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM benchmark scaled to more than 50,000 users and more than 2.9 million daily transactions — all from hardware that costs less than $35,000 (2), or $0.70 per user. In this comparison, Microsoft Dynamics CRM drove three and a half times more users and almost two times more transactions — while reducing hardware costs nearly 80 percent.
Read more [Microsoft PressPass]
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