Microsoft Dynamics CRM R8 - CRM Anywhere

Mark Smith, 07 February 2012

It’s with great excitement today that Microsoft have announced the next Service Update of Dynamics CRM R8 - CRM Anywhere.

Microsoft continues to Focus on its vision in this latest release to:

• Drives maximum user productivity

• Delivers business insight and collaboration irrespective of a person’s role within their organization

• Enriches the core sales, service and marketing capabilities of your organization

• Provides a flexible and scalable business solution framework

Click on the images below to read the details or just jump straight to the Release Preview Guide.

In the following Blog Posts I will cover the main areas of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM “R8” release.

• Mobility
• Browser Flexibility
• Social
• Industry Templates
• SQL Server 2012
• Certifications

A few other things worth noting:

Rapid View Forms

• Rapid View Forms allows people that need to look at information without editing it to access that information very quickly or course you can go to edit mode it needed. So Rapid View is a performance boost

Custom Workflow Activities in CRM Online YES!!!!!

• Developers can build custom .net Workflow activity assemblies for Dynamics CRM online

 For all the live demos come to Convergence 2012.

When it comes to release time frames we are hoping to see the public availability in either April or May 2012.

For more information please refer to the following links:

Microsoft Press Release: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2012/jan12/02-06CRMMobilePR.mspx 

Microsoft Blog: https://community.dynamics.com/product/crm/crmnontechnical/b/crmconnection/archive/2012/02/06/crm-anywhere.aspx

Microsoft Twitter: http://twitter.com/MSDynamicsCRM

Microsoft Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21809302488/ 

Microsoft LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Microsoft-Dynamics-CRM-21231

Microsoft YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/MicrosoftdynamicsCRM