subject: Comparison Of Extensibility Feature Deployment Of Microsoft Dynamics Crm 4.0 [print this page] Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software 4.0 SDK documentation illustrates numerous features, which enable developers of building distributed CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications. This article offers brief description about availability of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software 4.0 features in three kinds of deployments.
* Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
* Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (on-premise)
* Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Internet Facing Deployment (hosted)
Extensibility Features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
You may extend the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software with areas given below. Following topics explain every extension area specified previously.
Configuration and Customization Tools
Customization tools permit you in adding as well as renaming the entities. You may also add or modify the forms, views, mappings, attributes, and relationships. Configuration tools permit you to produce your personal teams, business units, relationship roles, and security roles. For more details, you can search Entity Customization.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software as well as Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration of Microsoft Office Outlook incorporates support for the scripting through JScript. For more details, search Client Scripting and Extensions.
Client Extensions
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software customers are designed of being extensible without having changes to code of ASP .NET pages for application. You may add menu items, custom buttons, IFRAMEs, or navigation areas to incorporate custom applications with Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients. Make a note of it that for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration online the web pages have to be hosted at the server except Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration Web server. To have more details, search Scripting and Client Extensions.
Custom Reports
Utilize filtered views for creating customized reports in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration as well as in the applications like Microsoft Office Access and Microsoft Office Excel. For more details, search Report Writers Guide.
Export/Import/Publish Customizations
Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK holds APIs for programmatically support export, import, and publishes the features, which are available with Web applications of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. For more details, search Export, Import, and Publish Customizations.
Data Import and Data Migration
The data import and migration features permit you uploading the data through different customer association management systems as well as data resources to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. SDK offers additional functionality of data migration, which is not accessible in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web application. To get more details, search Data Management.
Plug-ins
Plug-ins permit you to supplement Microsoft Dynamics CRM logic business with own code of both online as well as offline applications. All these extensions may also be utilized for integration of external systems. With previous version, these features were identified as callouts. To get more details, search Plug-ins.
Web Services
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 offers active Web service interfaces of applications for using access as well as manipulating platform data to interact with the platform services. All these services facilitate ISVs for writing applications using the Microsoft Visual Studio as well as other developing tools through simply referencing platform Web services. To get more details, search topics for every Web service revealed in following table.
