Jeremy Winchell

September 2006 - Posts

Essential CRM Add-In: RSS Connector

I subscribe to a lot of RSS Feeds so I can receive up to the minute information about what is going on in the world of news, sports, Microsoft, etc.  What if you could do the same thing to monitor the state of your business?  Now you can, all you need is the RSS Connector for CRM 3.0. 

The RSS Connector allows you to leverage your investment in CRM by providing up to the minute alerts as information changes in CRM.  The RSS Connector generates RSS feeds based on both Public and Private views in CRM.  User can then subscribe to these feeds using IE 7.0, Outlook 2007, RSSBandit, or any other RSS reader of their choice.  The result is that you can get instant notifications when things change in your CRM System.

Benefits:
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Can replace Alerts generated via Workflow to reduce Inbox clutter
- Almost instant notification when recors are modified
- Increases visibility into the happenings of your business
- Subscribe to feeds that are relavant to you and your job
- More of Proactive approach to changes in the competitive environment
- Easy Setup, RSS can be up and running in under 30 minutes and doesn't require any kind of installation.

That's just a short list of some of the benefits that the RSS Connector can bring to your business.  To Download the RSS Connector for CRM, click the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=18624D6F-62C6-49E4-837C-BB774CBC509C&displaylang=en

New CRM 3.0 Mobile Client Released

On Monday, Microsoft released the latest version of their CRM 3.0 Mobile client.  It's a lightweight mobile client designed for Windows Mobile devices, other smartphons and HTML 4.0 capable devices.  Developers can also build custom mobile applications based on the platform as well.

For more information and to download the application, click the link below.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=8e65fc13-4073-406c-879c-442faf78f2c8