Renaming or Repurposing Microsoft CRM System Entities

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dan Blake

I’ve been taking part in an interesting discussion on the LinkedIn “Microsoft Dynamics CRM” group. The following is the extremely long link you will have to use to get to this discussion:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=21231&discussionID=7432367&sik=1253708987811&trk=ug_qa_q&goback=%2Eana_21231_1253708987811_3_1
You’ll need to be a member of this group to read the discussion.
It started out with a great question about “
Are there any real [...]

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Is Microsoft Dynamics CRM the Right Platform for My Software Business?

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Dan Blake

The title of this post is a question I was asked by a software executive (Let’s call him Mike althought that isn’t his real name) recently. Mike is considering launching a new software application for a niche vertical industry and he wanted to get my feedback on the pros and cons of building their application using Microsoft [...]

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Cloud Computing Pervasive In 2009?

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Dan Blake

Let’s say you and I are starting a business and we’re making plans to launch a great new piece of software that will change the world. Should we be thinking cloud platform? Will our software product/service be obsolete by the time we finish it if we don’t build it on Google or Microsoft or Amazon’s [...]

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