Microsoft has already introduced a documentation pack and videos for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

And then partners come up - since today Sonoma Partners will publish one new video each day for 2 weeks.

The video highlights will include:

• Dashboards
• Charts
• Ribbon UI
• Conditional Formatting in Outlook
• Form Enhancements part 1 (Embedded Grids, SharePoint Integration)
• Form Enhancements part 2 (Role-based forms, Form Navigation)
• Filters/Views
• Dialogs
• Auditing
• Connections

Well, as soon as I have gone on vacation, as Microsoft released a beta-version of the CRM 2011.

At the same time was launched a promo site with video presentations: http://crm2011beta.com/.

Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta

I have already written about the features of the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and now you can learn more about it - Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 Microsoft officially took the covers off of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5. The keynotes were disclosed in Dynamics section.

"CRM5" is now officially Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

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I keep on describing the innovations that are expected in the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Every company engaged in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects implementation, sooner or later faces the problem of different components and settings compatibility. There are many questions while migrating customization (system settings and components) from the test server to production environment.

Here are the most common issues: Читать далее »

Two years have passed since Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 was released. This version replaced the previous 3.0, and has got wide prevalence and gained general acceptance. In 2010, Microsoft plans to release the next version of Dynamics CRM.

New releases of Microsoft products informally divided into the evolutionary and revolutionary. Evolutionary realeases fix functionality deficiencies, user interface, optimizes performance, while revolutionary releases include a significantly revised architecture of the product, changes in the API, and new features. Typically, evolutionary and revolutionary releases follow each other:

• CRM 3.0 – revolutionary release for the previous version 1.2 (significant changes both in functionality and architecture of the product);
• CRM 4.0 – evolutionary release (plug-ins model which have replaced the old callout approach does not count);
• «CRM 5» – revolutionary release?

Rumours are about possibilities of «CRM 5» (the next version of CRM) have spreaded since early October 2008. Here is a list referred to innovations: Читать далее »