Microsoft CRM Accelerators – part deux

The Microsoft team have done themselves proud with the current crop of CRM Accelerators. They struggled a bit last year but have made up for it since with quality, stable product. They are even releasing two new accelerators, as well as having just updated the Analytics accelerator.

CRM Accelerators are a range of free-of-charge add-on solutions which have been developed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 customers and partners. Each accelerator showcases how the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform can be configured and extended to broaden marketing, sales and service capabilities. CRM accelerators provide additional functionality for deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers are encouraged to further configure these accelerators to meet their specific business needs.

The full press release on the two new accelerators is here: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-08MSDynamicsCRMAcceleratorsPR.mspx

You can download all the CRM accelerators here: http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators

These accelerators are currently available for download with the two new ones available next week:

• Notifications
• Event Management
• Extended Sales Forecasting
• eService
• Analytics R2 – Updated 22-Jun-2009
• Enterprise Search R1
• Business Productivity Newsfeed
• Business Productivity Workflow Tools
• Business Data Auditing

Each download package is a self-extracting exe or ZIP file containing a setup routine and all the necessary installation bits, documentation and source code.

If you have Microsoft Dynamics CRM – or are wisely thinking of making the switch to it – you should check these out and then contact a Microsoft Partner to help you implement them.