MSDynamicsWorld.com: Top 10 Microsoft Dynamics Stories of 2009
MSDynamicsWorld.com published this yesterday: Our Top 10 Microsoft Dynamics Stories of 2009
The article picked this to be one of the top titles: How Microsoft Has Used XRM to Take Dynamics CRM to a New Competitive Level
Here’s an excerpt:
Interest in XRM appears to be growing considerably. One measure of the interest in xRM is the conception and rapid growth of the XRM Virtual User Group. The group, led by Julie Yack of Colorado Technology Consultants, a Microsoft application consultancy, has grown well past 500 members since its inception in March 2009. New members continue to join at a steady rate every day, Yack says.
True to its name, the XRM Virtual User Groups have built their online presence as an XRM application - a web site hosted on Azure, built with the web site building tool ADXSTUDIO, and connected, via ADXSTUDIO's XRM Extensions, to Dynamics CRM Online for managing everything from the articles and events to the user identification.
While Yack estimates that as many as 80% of the members of the user group are developers, some are Dynamics CRM users who "know CRM forwards and backwards and have never written a line of code in their lives. " They see the platform and its re-use as a cost savings measure in developing new applications for their business.
Kudos to CRM MVP Julie Yack! :o)