Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting

by Damian Sinay

Overview

All of the data entered into a CRM means nothing if it is unable to report the important information to our managers and executives in such a way that they can easily and quickly get the results they need. A better reporting system would enable them to make the necessary improvements to the processes that any business needs in a dynamic business world.For users and developers wishing to take advantage of using the report capabilities of Dynamics CRM, this is the book for you.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting is a practical and excellent reference guide that provides you with a number of different options you can use to create and empower the Reporting capabilities of Dynamics CRM. This will give you a good grounding in using the reports in your Dynamics CRM 2011 implementations.

This book looks at all the different options we can use to create reports in Dynamics CRM 2011, starting with SQL Reporting Services and custom reports, created in either CRM Report Wizard, SQL Report Builder, or Visual Studio. It will also show other options we can use such as dashboards, charts, and different ways to optimize and automate reports.We will also learn how to build our own reports either using the different wizards for basic reports or using Visual Studio for more complex reports. We will explore the options mobile CRM users have who want to run and see reports on these mobile devices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849682312
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	06/25/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

Damian Sinay has over 15 years of experience in the software development and IT industry. He started working with the .NET framework when its first version, 1.0, was in the beta stage. In 2002 he won the first prize of a contest entitled “Building solutions based on XML web services” that was held in Latin America by Microsoft. In 2006 he wrote his first book in his native language (Spanish) about web services with C# development.He started working with CRM solutions prior to the first release of initial version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since then he has been working exclusively with developing and implementing solutions for Dynamics CRM and SharePoint. He is certified in versions 3.0, 4.0 and 2011 in development, installation, configuration and implementation of Dynamics CRM, and has around 18 Microsoft certifications (MCP) in SQL, C#, ASP.NET, TFS, Project, CRM and SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Among many other things, he has co-authored the Dynamics CRM unleashed books for 4.0 and 2011.He has held the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Dynamics CRM award in 2012 and serves as the CEO of Remoting Coders, a Microsoft Partner company that is turning 10 years old in 2013, which provides and gives solutions using Microsoft products and technologies.You can contact Damian at [e-mail], follow him on Twitter at @damiansinay, and can also read the blog at http://www.remotingcoders.com/Blogsite/.