Over the past few months the CRM product team at Microsoft have given a few sneak peeks at some of the more interesting new functionaliy that they’re working on.  I’ve pulled together this list of some of the videos that they have captured to document their product development.

Overview

In this first video is a chat with Andy Bybee, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama and Allen Hafezipour all program managers on the CRM platform team thinking about programmability and the developer experience. They discuss some of the thinking that’s going into the next release of CRM.

• Have a look at the video here.

Solution Management

One area that the platform team is spending a lot of time thinking about is solution management.  Think of solutions as providing to CRM the same sort of capabilities that Windows has with its capability to add and remove programs and features.  This should give the ISV community a platform to more easily provide their add-on software to CRM customers.

• Have a look at the video here.

 Secure Code on the Server

Another area that the team is working hard to make even better is the deployment of secure code on the server.  The current version of CRM allows code on the server (for plug-ins or workflows) and that code runs in full trust.  That’s the primary reason why server code is not allowed on Dynamics CRM Online where you’re sharing the server with many other tenants.

• Have a look at the video here.

Dynamics CRM: The Appealing Business Application

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama presented this session.  He walked through an introduction to building line-of-business applications on the CRM platform.

• Have a look at the video here.

Rapid Business Application Development with Dynamics CRM

Andrew Bybee and Nirav Shah presented this 400-level session.  In it they show how Dynamics CRM can be used for rapid development of business applications.  In it they show some of the new capabilities for extending business logic in Dynamics CRM.  They focus primarily on the platform so not so much on the sales, service, and marketing applications but more on the underlying platform or what we often call xRM.  

• Have a look at the video here.