MS CRM Customization, Data Conversion & Integration


by Ray Jensen - Date: 2007-05-10 - Word Count: 324 Share This!

The MS CRM Architecture is designed for scalability and customization. Besides the possibility to personalize MS CRM on your own the system it also allows add-ons by self developed components or customization. In order to customize CRM, Microsoft has included the Software Development Kit that perfectly describes all available classes and which Web Services need to be used. By the realization of Web Services Integrations it is also possible to integrate MS CRM seamlessly with other applications as a result of which the available functionalities increase considerably.

Data Migration: The CRM Migration Tool provides us with a framework and enables us to import data from other applications or convert data from other CRM applications.

Main Features are: 1) Data Integration 2) Data Conversion 3) Scheduling

Through data integration the user can import data from any application database like a web store, POS into MS CRM database. Through the data migration you can migrate your other CRM data into MS CRM database. Through scheduling you can schedule your data import at any specified time.

Special Features: Wizards, Templates, Add Multiple Entities, Configurable, Lookups for data mapping, Data Validation, Error Logs, Reports.

The application uses wizards which are user friendly. The tool provides some preconfigured templates for migration. User can also save templates. It is possible to add multiple entities and set multiple data sources.

User can configure the template to map the source fields to the MS CRM fields and as well as set a criteria for the Entities .Lookups are provided to perform data mapping. The tool performs data validation and SQL type validation, checks whether all source data is mapped to CRM data, checks for the existence of a record for updating.

Errors during data validation, data Import are logged to log files. Reports are provided to show total records, records inserted, updated and failed.

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Ray Jensen is a MS CRM & Great Plains Consultant focused on Support, Customization, Migration and Integration projects, and serves US Nationwide, http://www.clfsolutions.com. Your Article Search Directory : Find in Articles

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