Microsoft Corp. has announced the worldwide release and general availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013.
Microsoft also announced the availability at the end of the month of a new set of industry- focused business process templates as part of the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM release, delivering customers step-by-step process guidelines designed to improve performance in specific industries.
The new solution, which is now available online in 42 global markets, will be available for on-premises and partner-hosted deployments on 31st October. It is designed to offer customers an enhanced user experience that promotes end-user productivity and demonstrates the better together value of Microsoft technologies. This includes interoperability with Yammer, Lync and Skype – delivering sales, service, marketing and industry professionals a seamless and customisable experience.
"CRM today should be an enabler that detects trends, facilitates decisions and suggests actions that lead to successful outcomes and relationships," said Bob Stutz, corporate vice president of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. "This major new release delivers on this promise of customer centricity by bringing together Microsoft technologies in a way that helps businesses and organisations better engage and nurture their customers."
New Industry Templates
Microsoft new Dynamics CRM release offers customers pre-defined and configurable processes where each stage of a process is clearly outlined, identifying the recommended steps to completion. Building on this design element, Microsoft is introducing new templates for a number of specific industries such as, professional services, manufacturing and financial services as well as processes for event management and solution selling. These completely configurable business processes incorporate best practices from industry experts and give customers a starting point to build a solution to fulfill their specific industry requirements. In addition, these templates flow onto all mobile devices supported by Microsoft Dynamics CRM, meaning customers can get the benefits of these processes on their favorite supported mobile device. These templates will be available for customers to download at no charge by the end of October 2013.
Designed to help customers match, engage and nurture customer relationships
In addition, the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM features new capabilities to enable sales, marketing and customer care professionals match customers and prospects to the products and services they want, engage customers at the right moment, and nurture customer relationships. These personal experiences are delivered through the following:
- A beautiful, new people-first design that offers a simple and immersive layout where all customer information is on one screen, helping people easily see everything they need to know about their customer interactions in one place.
- A new outcome-driven user experience featuring guided processes that help customers reach their desired outcomes. These processes can be tailored to accommodate particular business requirements that enable people to deliver an experience that matches their customers' expectations. The benefits to organisations include shorter sales cycles, increased win rates, and less ramp-up time for new hires.
- The ability to stay pervasively connected to customers and resources by putting social tools in the context of what people are doing. With Yammer, customers can quickly comment on posts or start contextual conversations from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM on-premises and online. Yammer extends across an organisation bringing everyone into the conversation, including non-licensed CRM customers from within Yammer.
With the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM release, customers get access to new mobile client applications on Windows 8 tablets and iPads, as well as touch enabled experiences on Windows Phones, iPhones and Android phones coming within the next month, giving customers powerful functionality and analytics on the go, without a separate license fee. These new tablet experiences keep people connected to their data, their team members and most important, their customers, allowing subject matter experts to be a click away.*
Over the past few months, Microsoft partners from 48 countries participated in the most highly subscribed-to release preview program to date for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and provided feedback on the new release. Select participants and their stories will be featured in a Global Premiere Event scheduled for November 4, which will be streamed live at http://aka.ms/dynamicsglobalpremiere. More about the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM release can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm.aspx
Add a Comment
No messages on this article yet