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Navision Software was purchased by Microsoft and now it is supported by Microsoft Business Solutions together with Microsoft Great Plains, Axapta, Solomon, Microsoft Retail Management System and Microsoft CRM. You can get infor and download it at http. To test the procedure you can give its name in MS SQL Query Analyzer - EXEC NavisionCustomers. Msg 7347, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' returned an unexpected data length for the fixed-length column '[MSDASQL. ProviderName='MSDASQL', TableName='[MSDASQL]', ColumnName='Ship_to_Filter', ExpectedLength='250', ReturnedLength='1'.

Robert Horowitz is Certified Navision Specialist in Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. Do you plan to expose Navision data to other applications? - Navision has tools to expose the data from C/SIDE database (C/ODBC, C/FRONT), but in the case of SQL Server you certainly have standard Microsoft technologies in your disposition. Do you need OLAP/Datawarehousing? - then SQL Server is the way to go. It has built in Analytical Server with OLAP cube creation and Excel data pivoting. Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Navision, Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Washington, Colorado, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.

Rafael Osipov is a Software Developer in Alba Spectrum Technologies (www. Principal CLP IBM Lotus Domino 6 Application Developer. Certified Professional E-commerce Concepts Analyst. Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino enables using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2002 to access e-mail messages, calendar, address book, and To Do (task) items on an IBM Lotus Domino Release 5. Microsoft supports free add-on for Microsoft Outlook client, which allows connection to message/collaboration server Lotus Domino.

Then simply apply some MS CRM SDK programming. Direct SQL touch - in #4 above I described you the scenario with MS Exchange handlers - this would be ideal world if MS CRM SDK does the job. But - in real world this is not always true - you have to do direct flags correction in CRM database (like making Activity closed, moving email attachments/octet streams, etc. This is not supported by MBS technical support - but you can rescue to this technique if you have to make job done. Refer to MS Exchange SDK onsyncsave event handling.

You can always have us help you with the integration and customization. And we'd dare to say that these things are computer application platform dependent (even being designed in the heads of corporation founding leaders as abstract business processes - then they were placed into the computer platform and had to fit to its pluses and minuses. Considering these arguments and having multiple requests from Microsoft Business Solutions and directly from our prospects and customer, we have realized the connector, which allows Microsoft CRM use Lotus Domino email server with similar messaging functionality as Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000 Microsoft CRM Exchange connector needs to be installed and its DLL based functionality is superceded by our own DLL, which communicates with Lotus Domino server via Java Agents. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, serving clients in Chicago, California, Texas, New York, Georgia, Arizona, Louisiana, Michigan, Florida, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa and having locations in multiple states and internationally ( http. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

Increasing Demand for Quality - this is not a secret that in the era of internet boom - late 1990th - consulting companies had to hire college graduates to do highest complexity assignments. And market was tolerating this - not any more. All these features will enforce the consulting companies to reduce cost, seek nation-wide clients via remote support, web sessions, abandon traditional software leads generation techniques and move to internet sales, increase the quality of their consultants (we don't know the answer how. Now if you have your software product designed - you better find the company to do real coding somewhere in Brazil or India. We do not want to judge - is it good or bad - this is what is going on with our market.

This allows you to revise and versionize document with automatic fax delivery to the addressees involved. Andrew is Lead Software Developer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Oracle, Navision, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, serving Chicago, California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York, Canada, Australia, UK, Russia, Europe and internationally ( http. All we have to do is - integrate one of the reliable solutions into Microsoft CRM. Let's look at the technical aspects of the integration. Fax software automation market is very mature and we don't have to re-invite the bicycle here.

Lotus workflow may work with integration to your ERP/Accounting application, such as Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, however this is outside of the scope of this article. One of the popular requirements is the synchronization of Microsoft CRM Activities. This should allow users work on the same project sharing Lotus and MS CRM data space. This is typical Microsoft CRM SDK (to program MS CRM) and Lotus Java Agent programming from the side of Lotus. Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having locations in multiple states and internationally.

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Navision, Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Washington, Colorado, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. It has built in Analytical Server with OLAP cube creation and Excel data pivoting. Do you plan to expose Navision data to other applications? - Navision has tools to expose the data from C/SIDE database (C/ODBC, C/FRONT), but in the case of SQL Server you certainly have standard Microsoft technologies in your disposition. Do you need OLAP/Datawarehousing? - if you use MS SQL Server - you are positioned better.

We know the examples when 5 employees companies make a decision to implement and have surprising success in Microsoft CRM implementation. Movement down to small and tiny companies - this is completely new trend for CRM market. This actually proves the hypothesis that MS CRM is very simple solution - these companies usually do not have extra money to spend on their computer system, but need the solution for its sales people to instantly see the cargos, plus have simple customization, allowing them to integrate with legacy system. Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, based in Chicago, California, Colorado, Texas, New York, Georgia and Florida, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www. Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

Because MS CRM is web application - it can be used by remote users and automate operations across the whole USA and even Worldwide. Net with MS CRM SDK and SQL queries to legacy database. This is usually made as small web application, created in Visual Studio. Usually MS CRM ties together existing legacy business systems and replaces large portion of them. Typical case - if you are freight forwarding client and have cargo tracking system - you should more likely have lookup from the MS CRM account screen to the customer current shipments statuses.

This is also important for both - client and GP partner. Usually remote support partner has US based lead developers and project manager and uses excellent programmer in such countries as Philippines and Brazil where developers have excellent Dexterity source code programming experience. Writing proper specification form the customization is probably 70% of the success. Each vertical market requires MBS partner to be experienced with business processes implementation via GP custom logic. Happy implementing! You can always appeal to us to help you with your system.

This was surprising discovery for us about 3 years ago. Microsoft CRM deploys all the spectrum of Microsoft technologies. MS Exchange, Active Directory, full-text search, BizTalk, XML streams,. Net - and we see that Microsoft-oriented IT departments take an initiative and implement MS CRM with minimal outside help. You use MS SQL Server scripting to pull the data from third party system (but not to update data in the CRM - you should use MS CRM SDK for this purpose.

The most important is that it will be synchronized by MS Outlook and will allow you as a salesperson to work offline. You can always have us help you with MS CRM customization, implementation, support & MS CRM SDK data conversion. As the second phase we plan to implement lookups from MS CRM Account to cases with custom fields and Lotus notes lookup tab. This web application will have machine serial number, warranty & service info. Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics, Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having locations in multiple states and internationally.

Net with MS CRM SDK and SQL queries to legacy database. Because MS CRM is web application - it can be used by remote users and automate operations across the whole South America and even Worldwide. This is usually made as small web application, created in Visual Studio. Typical case - if you are freight forwarding client and have cargo tracking system - you should more likely have lookup from the MS CRM account screen to the customer current shipments statuses. Usually MS CRM ties together existing legacy business systems and replaces large portion of them.