We talk to a lot of organizations evaluating CRM systems. The topic of integration comes up a lot. Integrating CRM with a separate ERP solution can be a project in and of itself, requiring a lot of hours and additional software. The most common business case I hear is, “We...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 2019 Wave 2 brought back a feature that went away with the upgrade from CRM 2011. When you qualify a lead, once again you have options for related records. You can select if a Contact, Account, Opportunity or combination of all 3 is created! The ribbon still...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a robust tool with excellent reporting capabilities. Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Power BI as a supplemental reporting tool using your (well maintained) Dynamics 365 data opens doors to new formulas and data transformations. A Power BI client recently requested the ability to look at pipeline...

Where did all that data come from? A funny thing happened to our Microsoft Dynamics 365. We started receiving alerts that we'd exceeded our storage limit. Our tenant was at a 154% usage. Ouch! How did it come to this? We use Organization Insights to diagnose Microsoft Dynamics 365 storage...

A client of ours needed to analyze information about the duration of time users spent in the various stages of their Dynamics 365 Lead-to-Opportunity business process. Searching on the web led me to a few related posts. I used information from a post by Steven Foster to start and formulate...

Back in the ‘good old days’ (version 4.0 ?) if you wanted a multi-select option set on your Dynamics CRM form, you could simulate one using jscript. There were a few variations but generally, what the user saw were labels and checkboxes and then typically the results of their ‘selections’...

“Acquiring a new customer is 5 to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one.” – Amy Gallo, Harvard Business Review One of the most important factors in growing your business is minimizing your churn rate. Face it--as more and more goods and services trend toward commoditization, service after...

You may encounter some data maintenance scenarios more easily handled by using Excel to update data in Dynamics 365. Luckily, the system allows us to export existing data into Excel, make changes to the spreadsheet, and then use that same file to import updates to the data. Here are the...

Everyone has them. Some are good and some are bad—or worse. What are they? They’re leads. Leads by their very nature are suspect—right? We don’t know enough about them to rightly refer to them as legitimate sales opportunities. Therefore, lead data is highly suspect as well. Let’s face it. A...

List building presents challenges to both Salespeople and Marketers. This challenge can be solved using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales App. Yes, you can perform your list building using tools in Microsoft Dynamics 365. Let's identify the list building challenges: Identifying new organizations suitable to sell or market to. Acquiring...

A Dyn365Pros client requested integration with an external system in order to pull account and invoice records into Dynamics 365. While many integrations with Dynamics 365/CRM are real time, this request has to pull records from the system just once per day. We had to solve one tricky issue in...

Would you like to get more out of Dynamics 365 search? Sure, you know the basics. Who could argue that ‘Quick Find’ is an invaluable tool for getting to the record(s) you want to work with? And the same holds true for the ability to enter search criteria into a...