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Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jon-Littlechild
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Thursday 17 May is National Learning at Work day, with events promoting Learning at work happening across the UK. To support the day, we've created these Top Ten Tips for Learning to help and encourage business to make learning fun and relevant:
 
Motivating and engaging employees through learning – 10 Top Tips

1) Make learning social - Make learning fun and interactive through a community, whether you have a classroom, e-learning or blended learning approach. Use social networking to connect remote...

Posted on May 16, 2012 by karl-newman
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The “SoMo Zone”: Listening to a Social and Mobile Community for Engagement

“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.” Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Traditional marketing has its place. Don’t worry. This post is not about that.

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Posted on May 14, 2012 by john-pearson
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Microsoft Demonstrates Dynamics CRM Success with Its Own Move from Siebel

At this year’s Convergence conference, Microsoft revealed how the company had finally managed to wean itself from Siebel and implement its own Dynamics CRM system throughout its business.

For those considering a switch to Microsoft CRM, it is the ultimate success story, and for Oracle and other competitors, it highlights the beginning of a significant shift in the CRM market. As Oracle’s legacy applications begin to show their age and their new...

Posted on May 14, 2012 by karl-newman
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New Microsoft CRM Mobile Capabilities

In March, Microsoft announced new mobile capabilities for Microsoft CRM as part of a planned upgrade scheduled for Q2 2012. There’s been a lot of excitement generated by this new mobile feature, which will support native MS CRM apps on all your favourite devices, including iPhone, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, and Android.

Overall, this is a vote of confidence by Microsoft in the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)...

Posted on May 11, 2012 by karl-newman
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Introduction
This is a great blog as to how to measure Customer Satisfaction within Microsoft CRM using the ClickDimension product.  We are using this capability to survey our Customer to gauge the value of our Training & Support services.  Over the next few months, our CRM Success Manager - Gill Carroll, will be introducing a Customer Engagement process using the same ClickDimension toolset.

At ClickDimensions we really care about the happiness of our customers. We care so much that we survey our customers regularly and expose the results of...

Posted on May 10, 2012 by emilio-demarco
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Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is now available.

Update Rollup 8 Build number: 5.0.9690.2243

Note: Update Rollup 8 can be uninstalled, unlike Update Rollups 4-6, which could not be uninstalled. However, you should always back up your databases and application servers before you install an Update Rollup.
Update Rollup 6 established a new servicing baseline. This will enable uninstalls of some future CRM 2011 Update Rollups, but this also means that Update Rollup 6 is prerequisite for installation...

Posted on May 10, 2012 by ryan-hale
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Microsoft CRM is packed full of features, and tricks to increase your productivity and make using the product even more rewarding.

Today we will briefly look at five that are sometimes less obvious, but still very powerful! So without further ado… Here are five cool features of Microsoft CRM 2011.

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Inside the wunderbar (the main outlook style left navigation bar) there is a folder icon with a star on it. This commonly...

Posted on May 09, 2012 by ryan-hale
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If you’re want to learn more about CRM Online, The Resource Center (pictured below) is a great knowledge base. Finding the information you need is simplified by the compartmentalisation of topics. The Getting Started section is first time users of CRM Online. Clicking the Getting started resources for business users link takes you to a selection of guides.

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These guides (see below) are similar to Microsoft Dynamics CRM training sessions, as they walk you...

Posted on May 09, 2012 by Charles-maitland
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CEOs to Gartner: CRM is the Most Important IT Investment for the Next Five Years
Two recent Gartner surveys of CEOs and CIO indicated that CRM is now a top technology priority. The CEOs who were surveyed said that CRM was the most important investment are to improve business over the next five years.  The CIO’s said CRM was the 8th biggest priority, up from 18th last year.  “Effective leaders use technology to strengthen the customer experience regardless of the economic environment, and they see customers as the key factor in helping their business deliver growth and...

Posted on May 09, 2012 by emilio-demarco
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The Microsoft CRM 2011 Outlook client configuration troubleshooting wizard can be used to help find the most likely solution for an error in the Configuration Wizard. The wizard also helps you to identify and fix the problem that’s preventing the computer from connecting.

The wizard is really easy to use and is for both the CRM Online and On Premise environments.  The wizard contains screen shots and solutions for known configuration issues with the CRM client.

The wizard can be accessed with the following link —...