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It’s easy to integrate other
Microsoft or third-party applications with
Microsoft® Dynamics CRM to get more value from your
technology investments:
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Build mashups to take advantage of
the presentation layer in different applications and
expose
them through a Web user interface (UI).
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Incorporate business functionality by
using services from another system or use
traditional data-
synchronization integrations.
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Capitalize on the built-in
integrations within the Microsoft platform.
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Integration Types
With Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you can make integrations at
multiple application levels, and choose from several integration
methods. Make your business processes more efficient to become
more competitive.
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Use mashups or UI-based integration to create
composite applications for increased business efficiency.
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Take advantage of services-based integration to
invoke services from external systems.
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Create data-synchronizations to share data
between applications.
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Use the built-in integration support to establish
links with other Microsoft applications.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM supports multiple integration methods.
Microsoft Technologies
The Microsoft platform is highly flexible and extensible. With
all that it offers, you can save time and money integrating
other applications with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
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Take advantage of advances in the Windows
Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation to
implement long-running processes as workflows within .NET
applications.
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Integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM with
line-of-business applications and other Microsoft products,
including Microsoft
BizTalk® Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server.
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Make use of Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Analysis
Services and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services for
enterprise analyses and reporting.
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Get native client integration with Microsoft
Office applications.
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Use existing developer knowledge of the Microsoft
.NET Framework to quickly build new solutions.
Extensible Integration
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides a unified programming
model that can help you rapidly build service-oriented
applications that communicate across the Web. With the
well-developed API, you can expose the data and metadata layer
to provide data access and manipulate entities and metadata.
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Simplify cross-platform integration with a
development framework that is platform-agnostic.
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Support both transactional and metadata
operations.
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Create integrations that are multi-tenant aware,
so a single shared application instance can support multiple
client
organizations.
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Use synchronous plug-ins to construct events
before or after the persistence of data in the database.
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Set up asynchronous workflow assemblies to embed
integration logic or other complex application logic.
Take
advantage of the plug-in pipeline.
Security
When you integrate other applications with Microsoft Dynamics
CRM, you can benefit from high security at all levels of the
application. You can benefit from both hierarchical and
role-based security and simplify management with
inheritance-based security roles. And customizing and
controlling data access has never been easier.
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Get integrated security through single sign-on or
through Windows Live ID.
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Take advantage of role-based security settings
for easier management.
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Benefit from custom-added entities that work
within the security model like the entities that are shipped in
the box.
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Set up the sharing or delegation of objects or
records to individuals or teams.
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Provide direct access to data through filtered
SQL views that automatically determine users' roles and
privileges and
only returns the data that they are authorized to access.
