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Sitecore Integrates Microsoft
Dynamics CRM to Capture Critical Sales Intelligence and Improve Customer
Experiences

Sitecore, a provider of .NET Web content
management system (CMS) software has announced an enhanced integration between
Sitecore CMS and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

The
integration will allow organizations to blend prospect and customer data stored
in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system with real-time insights on Web
interactions via Sitecore CMS, the company said. This will allow marketers to
provide better and more targeted customer experiences, while giving sales the necessary
insight needed to better nurture prospective customers, according to company
officials.

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Whether
the economy is booming or tanking, businesses still have the same goals-to get
as much for their dollars as possible.

And one
way organizations upgrading to the latest versions of Microsoft Dynamics
applications can do that is by moving from physical to more consolidated virtualized
environments.

"Virtualization
means a couple things and what most people think of is Microsoft’s Hyper-V and its
[competitor] VMware," said Robert Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft.
"The technology allows you to run applications inside virtual machines that can
be moved around among physical machines."

Helm
said there are a couple things Microsoft’s virtualizati…

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Microsoft today announced significant changes coming to its
sales incentives for Microsoft Dynamics partners, with an increased focus on growing
sales of licenses and maintenance, along with more differentiated incentives
for those partners who out-perform and under-perform. 

"We are raising the bar," says Jeff Edwards, Director of Channel Strategy
for Microsoft Business Solutions. "The goal is to motivate partners by
marketing differently with them and treating them differently in the field
based on their performance.

The new incentive plan
will begin in January 2012, according to Edwards.

In the current system a
partner’s revenue is added up from both licenses and maintenance contracts, and
the total drives the margin th…

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Register @ http://decisions.msdynamicsworld.com/

Here you can find the different sessions covered Technical as well as Functional Areas in Dynamics AX by some of the key ppl in Dynamics AX World

http://decisions.msdynamicsworld.com/product/ax/sessions

In brief, these are some of the following areas which will be covered

Performance Monitoring
Paperless ERP
Batch Process Deep Dive
Agile Software Development using AX
Process Manufacturing
Risk Management

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Microsoft
Partner Sikich LLP, a public accounting
and consulting firm, is hoping to get in on the buzz surrounding Apple Inc.’s
iPad by offering customers a solution to run Microsoft Dynamics ERP on their
iPads.

"Lately,
it is rare that I go into a meeting and someone doesn’t pull out his
iPad," said Sikich partner Jim Drumm in a blog
post. "Apple’s iPad is stirring up a lot of enterprise interest… Many of
our Microsoft Dynamics ERP clients have expressed an interest in extending their
Microsoft Dynamics investment by running it on their iPads."

It
appears that Drumm is correc…

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America’s Leading Sour Cream
Brand Selects a Dynamics AX Solution That Marries Operational Transaction
Execution With Complex Financial Management

Dallas-based
Daisy Brand has selected Junction Solutions‘ JunctionF/B
for Dairy, an end-to-end solution set for the dairy industry.

Junction
Solutions is a supplier of vertical market-specific software applications and
services for the process manufacturing and retail industries built on Microsoft
Dynamics AX.

Daisy
Brand, which manufactures sour cream and cottage cheese products, will use the
software solutions to enhance control of its operations, simplify compliance
processes and connect with cus…

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If user
responses at the Dynamics AX User Group Summit 2010 are any indication the
Apple iPad is taking the Microsoft Dynamics universe by storm.

In a
presentation on "Dynamics AX and the iPad", nearly half of the 60 attendees at
the demonstration by Sunrise Technologies senior consultant Brandon George said
they are using the iPad to access or develop applets that enable the users to
carry out functions within AX. Sunrise’s
president, John Pence, said after the presentation that about half of the
Dynamics AX partner’s clients are either using or in the process of developing applets
for the iPad.

George’s
demonstration was of an applet he developed, which he called "axPad". It
enables sales people to locate on…

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Effective
November 1, Dynamics partners have to meet a new software escrow requirement to
be part of Microsoft’s "Certified for Microsoft Dynamics" (CfMD) program.

Business
solutions that are CfMD are thoroughly tested and proven to meet Microsoft’s standards
for partner solutions to reassure customers that their licensed software will
perform as promised.

According
to Microsoft, the escrow process will protect the ISVs’ intellectual property
(IP) and give customers an added assurance about the long-term viability of the
software they purchase.

"Customers
working with third-party software vendors in CfMD want to know that the IP
assets developed by innovative startups will be protected," said Ray Wang, a
partner at res…

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Metafile
Information Systems, a provider of paperless accounts payable and accounts
receivable document management solutions, has launched a new channel program targeting to
serve partners in all four Microsoft Dynamics applications.

Metafile will formally announce the Microsoft
Dynamics Partner Program next week at the Dynamics GP User Group Forum 2010. It
said it is seeking value-added reseller and referral partners and systems
integrators to sell, service, and support its MetaViewer paperless ERP document
management and workflow solution to Microsoft Dynamics users. "We have done a
lot of integration with other ERP players," Nick Sprau, Metafile’s vice
presid…

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