Microsoft Dynamics CRM

FAQs for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

How does Microsoft CRM integrate with Microsoft Outlook?
User is able to create e-mail templates and do a Mail Merge with Microsoft Word. Data can be exported to Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Outlook as provides fast, easy functionality to track emails and important contact directly from Outlook into Microsoft CRM.

How can I import my existing customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM?

The two common ways to import data using Microsoft Dynamics CRM using out-of-the-box functionality: The Bulk Import Wizard imports your accounts, contacts, campaign responses, leads, and marketing list data. It comes already built into Dynamics CRM and can be used easily and on an ongoing basis by a sales or marketing staff. The Data Migration Manager is another way to import and will likely be used when you first implement CRM 4.0. The DMM allows you to assign data to users and import attachments and notes connected with the data.

What does my company need to be able to operate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0?

Microsoft offers 3 solutions to fit every business’s work environment. We can help you select which option is best for you.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online – The online option combines the power of online services with the richness of your everyday productivity applications. You can quickly centralize your customer information and streamline business processes with easy access to a CRM website.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 On-Premise – The on-premise option give your business ultimate control over your customer relationship management system. It leverages standard Microsoft applications and server platforms with your current business. All information is specifically available for your business to optimize production immediately.
Hosted by Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner – The online option provides for a vendor to host Dynamic CRM for you and maintain similar how Microsoft hosts your application but provides a little more flexibility because the Hosted vendor may have different options for you. (In Some cases you can get better reporting and integration options.

Posted by Joe Ramos - July 2, 2010 at 10:19 pm

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Advanced Find examples

Orignal piece by Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/reporting/advancedfindexamples.mspx

Use these articles to see how to find records with criteria in one field or a second field, with criteria including values from related records, and with criteria from many activity types. The articles also show how to analyze the results by running reports on matching records, or exporting the results to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or PivotTable.

 

Analyze sales data

Are your customers buying?
Shows a simple query exported to a Microsoft Excel PivotTable.
Get ready for vacation
Make sure your customers are taken care of when you go on vacation by sharing your records with specific co-workers, reassigning scheduled activities, and sending customers a notice that you’ll be out.
View and evaluate the quality of your sales territories
Shows adding and removing columns from the search results, exporting to a Microsoft Excel worksheet, and importing the data from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft MapPoint.
Plan a sales trip in 20 minutes
Shows grouping of filter criteria, and adding and removing columns.
Don’t lose customers when a salesperson leaves your organization
Use Advanced Find to locate all records belonging to a salesperson who is leaving the company, including activities and appointments. Shows how to use Advanced Find with related records and with activities.
Establishing relationships between customer records that don’t relate
After creating relationship roles between accounts and contacts, shows how to use Advanced Find to view specific types of accounts or contacts.
Work while you wait: Create a printable report of phone calls
Shows using Advanced Find to find phone calls due today.

Analyze marketing data

Track campaign responses
Shows a simple query exported to a Microsoft Excel static worksheet.
Prevent lead build-up by bulk processing leads
Keep your lead list current by bulk disqualifying stale leads or converting a group of leads to Accounts, Contacts, or Opportunities.
Fine-tune your marketing lists with Advanced Find
Are your marketing lists incomplete or out of date? Qualify your marketing lists by applying filter criteria to them using Advanced Find.
Leverage marketing lists across your team
You can use marketing lists to accomplish a wide variety of goals. Use Advanced Find to create a targeted marketing list, and then use it to perform a mail-merge and print a call-down sheet.
Connect with campaign respondents in 4 steps
Responses have started flooding in to your e-mail quick campaign. Now what? How about a more focused e-mail blast to only the people who responded?
Send birthday greetings to your customers
Shows customizing the contact form, and then using the custom field in Advanced Find.

Analyze service data

Track returned products
Shows using customized fields in Advanced Find, exporting data to a Microsoft Excel PivotTable, and creating a chart with the data.

Posted by Joe Ramos - June 26, 2010 at 1:00 pm

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online – Getting Started

It is easy to get started with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

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Video: Personalize Microsoft Dynamics CRM for yourself

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is adaptable to your needs. This video will show you how to configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM to better suit where and how you work as well as keep your personal information current.


Posted by Joe Ramos - May 13, 2010 at 8:28 am

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Microsoft Dynamics Overview

Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides a full 360-degree, real-time view of each of your customers and prospects providing valuable business intelligence not
only for your sales team but also for your marketing, and customer service teams. From initial contact through the sales process and even post-sale follow-up and customer support.


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With Hosted Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM Online, you can quickly centralize customer information and streamline business processes with a solution that offers unmatched user adoption and business productivity.

GET STARTED QUICKLY

Using your Microsoft Internet Explorer® Web browser, you can quickly deploy your online CRM solution and begin transforming your business right away without complicated technology server setup. Start using the marketing, sales and service capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online immediately or utilize the intuitive configuration capabilities to quickly add or modify fields, forms, workflow and reports to tailor it to fit your business needs.

SALES: Close Deals Fast

Enable salespeople to create a single view of the customer with tools that streamline and automate everyday sales processes promoting shorter sales cycles, higher close rates and improved customer retention. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online gives sales professionals fast access to customer data and history when connected to the Internet or while working offline so they can work smarter and spend more time selling. Wizard-driven communications tools help keep sales prospects and customers informed of new product and service offerings.

MARKETING: Generate Demand

Provide marketing professionals with intuitive data organization and segmentation tools, powerful campaign management features and insightful marketing analytics to increase the effectiveness of marketing programs, generate demand and better track key performance indicators. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online provides a comprehensive set of marketing capabilities so you can better understand customers and target your resources to the areas of highest return.

SERVICE: Deliver Responsive Service

Deliver customer information, case management, service history and support knowledge to the desktops of customer service personnel, giving them the tools to deliver consistent, efficient service that enhances customer loyalty and profitability. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online provides a comprehensive customer service solution that is familiar to users, and is completely customizable to match your support process.

STREAMLINE BUSINESS PROCESSES

With Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, business users can quickly design workflows to standardize and streamline their business activities, automate repetitive tasks and enable the consistent execution of marketing, sales and service processes to ensure your best business practices work as they should.

REPORT WITH EASE

Turn customer data into actionable insight with wizard-based tools that enable end users to create sophisticated reports on their own. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online gives people rapid, relevant access to reporting and data so they can make faster, better-informed decisions.

Posted by Joe Ramos - May 10, 2010 at 3:07 pm

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