Entries tagged with dynamics - Channel 9

CWRMobility and the ZuneHD

John O'Donnell — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:32:00 GMT

Erik van Hoof from http://www.CWRMobility.com stopped by at the CRMUG Summit to show me his companies Dynamics CRM product called CWR Mobile CRM running on his new ZuneHD. Interesting to see how a ZuneHD can be used for business applications as well as consumer applications.

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John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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End of week overview of Dynamics Communities event

John O'Donnell — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:22:00 GMT

During the week of September 14th the Dynamic Communities team ran a successful event in Illinois focusing on Dynamics CRM, Dynamics GP, Dynamics AX and Dynamics NAV. I met with two of the organizers to get their feedback at the end of the week.

If you work with a Microsoft Dynamics product and are not part of a user group consider joining a group at http://www.dynamiccommunities.com/

The opportunity to network with your Microsoft Dynamics peers is one not to be missed.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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BuyDesign From TDCI Overview Part Two

John O'Donnell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:00 GMT

Configuration with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

The BuyDesign Configurator and Guided Selling solutions transform Microsoft Dynamics NAV into a uniquely powerful solution for configure-to-order manufacturers. Seamlessly embedded in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the Configurator is accessed through the sales and production documents and also supports variants, charge items, kitting, and much more.

In this video, see how easy it is to for your sales partners to create a configured quote and submit an order for processing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Watch how the order results in the creation of a production order with configured BOM and routings. Also see an example of how the Configurator produces dynamic photo-quality renderings of a cheer leader uniform from within Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Learn more about how BuyDesign from TDCI complements and extends the Microsoft Dynamics NAV platform to deliver significant value to Microsoft Dynamics customers at the end of the video.

For more information, visit http://www.tdci.com/nav/buydesign-nav.htm, or the corporate web-site at http://www.tdci.com/.

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John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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BuyDesign From TDCI Overview Part One

John O'Donnell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Powerful Configuration and 2D Engineering Visualization with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

In this video, see an example of how easy it is to create a configured sales order and a production order for a wood door within Microsoft Dynamics NAV using the BuyDesign Configurator. Watch the dynamic selection of options, generation of 2D engineering visualization, and the creation of a Dynamic BOM and routing.

Learn more about how BuyDesign from TDCI complements and extends the Microsoft Dynamics NAV platform to deliver significant value to Microsoft Dynamics customers at the end of the video.

For more information, visit http://www.tdci.com/nav/buydesign-nav.htm, or the corporate web-site at http://www.tdci.com/.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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A look at Cloud Computing, Azure and Dynamics CRM

John O'Donnell — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:50:00 GMT

In this video Jon White, a CRM Technology Specialist with Microsoft Dynamics CRM talks to us about Cloud Computing, Azure, Dynamics CRM and what it really means for anyone working with Microsoft Dynamics products

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Dynamics Nav

Suresh Sreedharan — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:22:00 GMT

Jay Manley, ERP Technology architect sits down with Dan Brown, General Manager, Nav to discuss about Dynamics Nav.

Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Suresh Sreedharan — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:14:00 GMT

Jay Manley and Kevin Racer with the Microsoft Dynamics team sits down and discusses the Microsoft Dynamics ERP platform.

Transcensus Interview and Demonstration - Deliver easy training with SHO Guide

John O'Donnell — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:56:00 GMT

Just before Convergence 2009 wrapped up I caught up with Dan Higbee and Dan Peay from www.transcensus.com and talked with them about their solution for delivering application help. In this video we show it running with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online but it can also be used with Microsoft Office applications, Dynamics or any application developed using Microsoft .NET.

Product Demonstration starts at time index - 5:45

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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MaxQ- Dynamics adoption

Suresh Sreedharan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:34:00 GMT

Warren Wilbee sits down with the MaxQ team at the CRM lab to talk about their experience working with the CRM platform.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Suresh Sreedharan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Jay Manley, principal technologist sits down with Sumit Virmani, principal technologist on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team to talk about the CRM platform and the opportunities for partners to build on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform.

AX Developer Value Proposition

Suresh Sreedharan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:47:00 GMT

Jay Manley interviews Kevin Racer regarding the benefits to developers and the overall value of the Dynamics AX platform in this video.

Dynamics AX Acceleration lab

Suresh Sreedharan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:46:00 GMT

Jay Manley interviews attendees at the AX acceleration lab at the MTC in Atlanta.

Demonstration of Cincom Acquire Product Configurator in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

John O'Donnell — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:05:00 GMT

In this interview, Rick Wood and Jim Wilson of Cincom Acquire talk to me about their product configurator solution and how it can be used to configure simple to very complex product packages. In addition Jim shows us the solution working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online which starts at time index 8:44. This solution is also available for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.

More information about the solution can be found here - http://www.cincomacquire.com/product-configurator-for-microsoft-dynamics.html

Cincom Acquire will at booth #300 at Convergence.

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Using Touch in Line-of-Business Apps

Ben Riga — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:14:00 GMT

I was mesmerized by this simple but cool Microsoft Surface demo at last fall’s Convergence conference in Copenhagen. Lachlan Cash was kind enough to let me post the video here as a great example of how touch can transform visualization and manipulation of complex line-of-business information.

The demo during Kirill Tatarinov’s keynote session shows top-down heat-map visualization of the bins in a warehouse. The color-coding gives an immediate view into the status of the warehouse with blue showing cold (i.e. bins with low pick rates) and red showing hot (i.e. bins with high pick rates). Multi-touch is fully supported on Surface allowing multiple warehouse staff to collaborate while manipulating the data to optimize the warehouse for fast picking.

It’s not clear to me that we’ll see many Surface devices in warehouses as that’s not the initial target market. On the other hand, as Kirill mentions at the end, this type of innovation gets much more interesting with the new Windows Touch technology in Windows 7. I can just imagine 60-inch multi-touch displays becoming the control centers of warehouses in the not so distant future. I hope that this sparks some ideas for how you might use touch in your line-of-business applications using either the Microsoft Surface or Windows 7.

Resources:

Interview with Bill Knapp and Scott Mills of vSync

John O'Donnell — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:52:00 GMT

In this interview, Bill Knapp and Scott Mills of Vsync (http://www.vsync.com) talk about their companies work on the Dynamics ERP platforms of Dynamics GP and Dynamics AX and also talk about their new product - vSync EDI for Dynamics AX 2009 - http://www.vsync.com/Portals/0/Documents/solutionsAX/AX_EDI_TNL.pdf

vSync will at booth #607 at Convergence.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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CRM Accelerators: Notifications (RSS)

Girish Raja — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:00 GMT

CRM notifications accelerator allows you to expose CRM business data by creating Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds.

Users can subscribe to any saved views within CRM as a feed. This allows you to have a channel where you pull information instead of being pushed to you from the server. These RSS feeds accessible via a variety of RSS readers including Outlook, Mobile phone, 3^rd Party Readers, etc. It is also worth noting that this capability can be used to easily create Vista Gadget for CRM by using the generic RSS gadget that Windows Vista ships with.

This is just a tip of iceberg on how RSS can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since the accelerator ships with the source code as well, developers can further extend this or create new and interesting applications based on RSS & CRM.

CRM Accelerators: Enterprise Search

Girish Raja — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:33:00 GMT

In this video, we take a look at the Enterprise Search Accelerator for CRM and see how SharePoint and CRM can complement each other in creating business solutions.

The enterprise search accelerator allows Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) customers to view and search for Microsoft Dynamics CRM data directly from their SharePoint portals.

Additionally, the technology, Business Data Catalog (BDC), and techniques used with this accelerator can be employed to surface data from other line of business applications to further enrich the SharePoint portal.

BDC makes it easy for people to connect to, find, and act on information stored in structured line-of-business systems (such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM) by using a declarative framework to securely integrate them into search results. With BDC you can configure actionable audience-specific portals, dashboards and mash-up interfaces for this data without writing any code.

CRM Accelerators: An Introduction with Reuben Krippner

Girish Raja — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:22:00 GMT

Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Reuben Krippner from the CRM team. Reuben has been working very hard for the last several months to release CRM Accelerators. In this short video, Reuben gives us an overview of the Accelerators program and we chat about how Accelerators will evolve in the future.

Update: Microsoft Partners can download the accelerators bits and related information at the below links:

http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MD_CRM_Accelerators

Stay tuned for more videos on Accelerators as Reuben and I drill into the technical details of each accelerator.

Thanks,
-Girish Raja.
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Case Study: Bridging On-Premises with the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:28 GMT

Learn how CRM has designed and architected a single code-base to target a cloud-based and on-premises offering. The architect of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will describe how they look at using cloud services, the management and development patterns they use when moving an application to the cloud. This real world case study uses examples from the creation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

David Shutt

Microsoft Dynamics AX: Building Business Process into Your Application

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:26 GMT

Do you want to understand how to model and orchestrate business process in your application? Learn how Microsoft Dynamics AX is using .NET 4.0, specifically focusing on illustrating how to use Windows Workflow Foundation to drive process execution and the intuitive new Flow Chart modeling style and rehostable editor to efficiently deliver a workflow modeling experience for Business Analysts in your own application.

Josh Honeyman

Dynamics Online: Building Business Applications with Commerce and Payment APIs

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:54 GMT

Learn how to use the Dynamics Online Commerce and Payment API to extend business processes from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to the cloud. This session will show three key scenarios: using ERP data to build e-commerce solutions over the Internet; accepting credit card transactions via both the ERP system and an e-commerce system using the same merchant account; and using built-in components of the API to easily add functionality such as a shopping cart or an interface to eBay.

Adam Wilson

Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Building Line-of-Business Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:52 GMT

Learn how the next version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM data model can be manipulated through meta data. See how to add custom business logic, including plug-ins and custom messages for Microsoft Dynamics CRM entities.

Andrew Bybee
Andrew is currently a Principal Program Manager responsible for developer and partner investments in Dynamics CRM. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1997, Andrew worked for an IBM business partner in Southern California and has 15 years experience in product development and project management.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM: The Appealing Business Application

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:21 GMT

Have you ever built a business application that people actually enjoy using? Learn how you can build appealing business applications using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product and its application constructs, including the client-side compositing framework, page layout, and forms. See how Dynamics CRM adds value as a rapid application development solution with integration into cloud platform services

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama
Humberto is a Program Manager at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product team; he is a member of the "platform" group and focuses on providing the framework, tools and extension points that developers, architects and partners can take advantage of when building applications on top of CRM. He is passionate about software development and user experience and looks at Dynamics CRM outside its traditional meaning (Customer Relationships Management) and more as the engine that drives business applications… an engine that is easy to use and can save a lot of development time. Previous experiences include project management and software development positions in several companies back in his home county, Mexico, where he dealt with problems in very different domains, from multimedia to distributed systems and security. Humberto holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems and Management from ITESM, CCM.

Dynamics és az ERP platform jövőkép

Zsolt Batorfi — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Imre Zsomborral, Dymamics MVP-vel beszélgettünk az ügyiteli rendszerek (ERP) ipari trendjeiről, a hazai helyzetről, fókuszban a Dynamics-al. Az interjú során sok minden más mellett az alábbi témákat érintettük:

- A nagy ERP platformok vs. hazai ügyviteli rendszerek
- Dynamics funkcionalitás és integrációs lehetőségek
- Belső üzemeltetés vs. hosztolás
- Bevezetési tapasztalatok
- Lehetőségek az itthoni szoftverházak számára

Ajánljuk mindenkinek akik kiváncsiak az ügyviteli platformok jövőképére!

WCF and AIF in Dynamics 2009: Chatting with Michael Merz

Ben Riga — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:56:00 GMT

In this video I’m back on the Advanta campus chatting with Michael Merz, Program Manager for Application Integration Framework (AIF) on the Dynamics AX team.

AIF is a standards-based framework that allows you to publish and consume web services. It’s used primarily in integration scenarios when connecting Dynamics AX with other systems. AX also has .NET Business Connector (BC.NET) for integrating with .NET applications. BC.NET is more for client side integration. AIF is all about web services and is completely standards-based. Under the covers AIF takes full advantage of .NET using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). For more complex integration scenarios AIF can also help expose services using MSMQ and BizTalk.

With Dynamics AX 2009, the team ships a bunch of services (about 60 out of the box) that are ready for use. That includes, for example, the more common scenarios like integration with sales orders or customers. AIF allows you to create, read, update and delete those sales orders while maintaining the integrity of the database (i.e. without directly touching the database at all). This is done independent of the transport so when developing you could begin by updating via http and later switch to MSMQ. This can be as simple as enabling the service then “generating” which generates the WCF interface (i.e. WSDL). That web service is then available to be consumed by any standards-based client (including apps written in php, java and naturally any of the languages in Visual Studio). You can also configure the service endpoints to change the binding or authentication parameters.

In the video, Michael walks us through using a standard Excel Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) project to consume a AX 2009 sales order service that is exposed using AIF. He also shows us how, by using WS-Addressing in the WCF headers, you can pass a target company for a web service call. By default, AX limits error messages coming back from the server for security reasons. Michael shows us how to configure AX to propagate those errors when you need to see them.

Dynamics AX is a rich platform for supply chain management and financials. AIF opens up AX so that ISVs can build on that richness by integrating their own applications. Sometimes when you do that you need to consume a web service exposed by external applications. We see here how you can plug external web services into the AX processes. In this case, Michael shows us how when trying to create a customer in Dynamics AX with a name that has been blacklisted by the US government (“Bin Laden”, for instance. Yikes! :) ) the customer create process calls out to an external web service in the cloud to verify the customer name. This seamless integration of external processes is a boon for ISVs that need those deep integration points. Michael explains how. In order to do this sort of integration you build a Service Reference in the Application Object Tree (AOT) to provide the parameters. AX takes care of much of work by generating the artifacts (compilation, deploying, bundling etc) that are deployed and executed on the server. CLR interop is available in order to use .NET DLLs and their classes.

Some code samples are available here:

Application Integration Framework Overview (MSDN)
Calling the Customer and Vendor Services (Dianne Siebold)