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Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Let’s check in with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Accelerators and see what’s new.

Release 1.1 released for Event Management, eService, Notifications and Extended Sales Forecasting accelerators! Each of these accelerators has released 10 individual language versions including:

  • Brazilian
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish.

CRM Accelerators are a range of add-on solutions developed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 customers and partners. Each accelerator is available at no cost and will showcase how the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform can be configured and extended to broaden marketing, sales and service capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers and partners are encouraged to further extend these accelerators to meet their specific business needs.
Each accelerator may consist of the following:

  • Customizations (entities, forms, views)
  • Workflow defintions
  • Business Intelligence elements such as custom reports (.RDL’s)
  • Functional code samples (strictly adhering to SDK guidelines)
  • Documentation for installing, operating, localizing and extending the solution
  • An automated installer

Each accelerator will be fully supported as per any other customization for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that follows SDK guidelines. Additionally, all samples are supplied with full source-code so they can be extended further to meet specific customer requirements. Because of Microsoft Dynamics CRM’s services-based architecture and metadata-driven application capabilities, accelerators can be deployed for both on-demand and on-premise environments. Through accelerators, customers and partners benefit from new functionality on a more frequent basis, and they can be deployed to their environment quickly and easily.

This site will be the key source for consultants, developers and customers to collaborate in this community initiative. Check back in frequently for discussions, updates to solutions, new features and documentation. There are discussion forums for each accelerator and all community members are encouraged to provide feedback and share their experience and knowledge to make these solutions better for Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers and partners.

This is an exciting program and our objective is to assist all who deploy and use Microsoft Dynamics CRM to maximize their investment!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2009
    Hi Jim, My apologies for this being off-topic from your post, but I wasn't sure how else to reach you.  What are MS' plans for multi-platform/multi-browser support (if any) in CRM 5.0?  We love MS CRM, but a lot of our engineers are using various *nix systems.  Any chance that you guys have a Silverlight-based interface in the works? Thanks, Chris

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2009
    More accelerators to be announced at WPC next week. Prepare to be amazed and delighted.