Cool product – Enecto Prospect Finder

I attended a local CRM conference yesterday and I met a very interesting company with a very cool product! The company is Enecto and their product ProspectFinder helps you monitor who visits you websites and their behaivior on you site, like what pages they are looking at and how long.

It works by looking up IP-adresses in a huge database containing most companys of more than 8 emplyees in northern Europe. Then, by using information from DnB and filtering on the more interesting visitors, automated lead creaton can be made directly into you CRM-system.

At the moment there is no connector to MS CRM but according to the guy I talked to, Petter Andersson, it was in the progress of being made.

The lengths of where you can go with this product are far from exploited. The more obvious of creating leads from interesting visitors and adapting content to different companytypes, are discussed in more depth on their site. Look around, and you might get a phone call 🙂

Click the heading of this posting to go to their site!

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

Rumor: Microsoft will release Navision Integration i Q1/Q2 2007

I have spoken to several people in the CRM community and according to what I have heard, although not directly from Microsoft, is that they will release an integration engine for integration between MS CRM 3 and Dynamics Nav. However, it is uncertain if it will only concern the new version of Dynamics Nav, soon to be released or will work also for the current version of Nav. This is good news since the connector I have worked with from the Danish company Tectura has left many question unanswered and lots to wish for.

I still havn’t had time to test the BizTalk connector and I havn’t talked to anyone who has. If you have, I would very much like to know your feelings about it.

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

Useful CRM related documents

Sonoma Partners have published several useful CRM documents on their website. Check them out! (Click the header!)

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

AJAX Activity Indicators

AJAX is often used in customization of MS CRM and one of the uses is to give the client a more user friendly interface. One of the important aspects of this can be progressbars (or similar) to inform the user that something is happening. I found a page with lots of AJAX Activity Indicators. Click the heading to go there.

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

MS releases the specification for VHD

Microsoft will release the specification for the file format VHD to the public. This is great since this will make way for loads of 3:rd party software for VHD:s! Click the heading…

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

Microsoft CRM Sandbox downloads

If you havn’t already checked it out, check out the dowload zone at Microsoft CRM Sandbox. Click the heading of this posting!

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se