WLG Dynamics User Group Session 47: Dynamics CRM 2015 Overview Part I

Speakers:  Rami Mounla

Date & Time: Wednesday, 11th February 2015, 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Dynamics CRM 2015 Overview Part I”

Description:

What a great way to start 2015 by introducing Dynamics CRM 2015.

On the surface CRM 2015 looks like a minor increment on its predecessor. However, the product is packed with new features that will impress existing uses as well as new comers. This session is targeted for business users who would like to get an overview of CRM 2015. A second session will focus on the technical side.

Further details:

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: To RSVP please register using the Meetup event HERE. Alternatively click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6.00pm, so if you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 027 704 6347.

Feel free to pass this on to your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

 Important!

Please note that the Wellington Dynamics User Group is switching to Meetup. Please take the time to join the new Meetup group. We will keep sending the emails and updating the WordPress blog for the time being until we have established the new group.

 

Wellington Dynamics User Group Session 29 – Empowering Marketing and Sales using MS CRM and ClickDimensions

Speakers:  Steven Foster

Date & Time: Thursday, 8th November, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm)

Location: Intergen, Level 7, 126 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Empowering Marketing and Sales using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ClickDimensions”

Description:

Marketing automation solutions help organisations better understand and target prospective customers, providing email marketing, web tracking, form capture, surveys and more. ClickDimensions is an email marketing and web analytics add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that joins together marketing automation with your CRM system.

Come and see how this single marketing solution can help your organisation identify who is interested in your products or services, their level of interest and help you take action.

Steven Foster, Intergen’s CRM Product Manager will show how you can use ClickDimensions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to identify customers,  generate compelling newsletters, deliver rich email content, manage web content with smart forms, create landing pages and surveys and generate qualified leads through intelligent web analytics.

Further details:

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. As a new feature, we’re asking you to add any questions in your RSVP to answer during the session. You can also ask your question on the night.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Visha on 021 2537010.

Feel free to pass this on to your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

 

WLG Dynamics User Group Session 27 – TechEd 2012 overview, Introducing ERP solutions

Slides courtesy of Rami: Here

Slides courtesy of Jaana: Here

Speakers: Rami Mounla, Jaana Krause

Date & Time: Thursday, 27th September, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “TechEd 2012 overview, Introducing ERP solutions”

Description:

We are proud to announce that the Dynamics User Group will now start running sessions on the ERP solutions of Microsoft’s Dynamics stack too! This was the case a few years back and we would like to introduce them again.

In our next session we’ll start by reviewing some of the dynamics sessions that were presented at TechEd 2012 followed by an introduction to the Microsoft ERP solutions.

Several vendors shared their Microsoft Dynamics enthusiasm with the delegates at TechEd this year. The sessions covered several interesting topics, from upgrading from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011, Metro style frontends to CRM 2011, CRM 2011 mobile solutions, and CRM 2011 tips and tricks including converting solutions from managed to unmanaged.

Microsoft’s Dynamics suite offers a range of ERP solutions in addition to CRM. For our first session, we’d like to give you a brief overview of how AX and NAV fit into the history of the Dynamics stack.  We will also provide you with some details on the current product range with particular focus on AX and NAV.  Don’t worry – this is not supposed to be an in-depth accounting software session; calculators can stay at home. We just want to make sure everyone knows what these ERP solutions are about because they will start coming up in future sessions.

Towards the end of the first introductory session we’d like to have your input on ideas for future meetings. The suggestion is to run Technology specific meetings but invite everyone along so they can consider the agenda and decide whether to come for that particular session. There might be topics which will bridge across the solutions as by its nature CRM is a great platform to integrate with the other ERP applications.  This is all open for your input!  You get to shape the future look and feel of our Dynamics User Group nights.  So come along and have a say in how you want your Dynamics User Group to continue in the future.

Further details:

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. As a new feature, we’re asking you to add any questions in your RSVP to answer during the session. You can also ask your question on the night.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 027 704 6347.

Feel free to pass this on to your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

 

WLG Dynamics User Group Session 24 – MS Dynamics CRM Information Management by Mark Harris from Māori Trustee

Slides courtesy of Mark Harris: MS Dynamics CRM Information Management

Date & Time: Thursday, 12th April, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “MS Dynamics CRM Information Management”

Description:

We have more information than ever before.   Is this a good thing?  Information is losing relevance, potency and coherence, and CRM incorrectly designed only adds complexity and increases these problems.  What do you do when this happens?

We are fortunate enough to get a great speaker with a wonderful insight into IT business along for our April session – Mark Harris.  Mark works as IT Manager for Māori Trustee, previously ERMA, and a VSA volunteer in Tanzania and Vanuatu.    He has been working with CRM at the business end for about 5 years.  General Tom Cruise lookalike, intelligence of Einstein and the speed and cunning of Dan Carter, the body of Sonny Bill, and also known to be full of BS (Mark may have been asked to write this bio himself!).

Come along and find out how to make your information relevant again, and hear about other IT insights Mark has discovered in his fascinating career.  Along with Mark’s inspirational views on IT, you will be equally inspired to try some new CRM tips and tricks by Rex Wessels as an added attraction to the April session’s line up.

Further details:

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. As a new feature, we’re asking you to add any questions in your RSVP to answer during the session. You can also ask your question on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 021 1846744.

Feel free to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be an awesome session. Looking forward to seeing you there 🙂

 

CHC Dynamics User Group Session 4 – Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online: The Power of Cloud Productivity

Speaker: Dirk Develter, BPOS Specialist, Microsoft New Zealand

Date & Time: 13th July, 5:30 – 7:30 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: NZi3 (National ICT Innovation Institute), University of Canterbury, 69 Creyke Road, Christchurch

Topic: "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Office 365: The Power of Cloud Productivity"

Description:

Equipping people with collaborative tools that are easy to use, easy to access, and work well together drives their productivity. Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Online and Microsoft® Office 365 pair together to unlock this power of productivity. The results are enriched customer relationships, streamlined business processes, and improved communication and collaboration across the enterprise.

Further details:

User Group Website: https://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session. You can also ask on the night as well.

Outlook: Click HERE to save it to your calendar.

Contact: If you are arriving late and the door is locked, contact Sun on 021-352-513.

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested!

Cheers,

Sun

 

Wellington Dynamics User Group, Session 12: Tips, Tricks and How To for end users in Dynamics CRM.

Tips, Tricks and How To for end users in Dynamics CRM.

It’s a pleasure to introduce Mark Smith from Magnetism (http://www.magnetism.co.nz) as our next speaker (Tues, May 25).  Magnetism are Microsoft Gold Partners and specialise in implementing and customising Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Please find details of the session below:

Speaker: Mark Smith, xRM Specialist, Magnetism

Date & Time: Tuesday, 25th May 2010, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 60 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Tips, Tricks and How To for end users in Dynamics CRM”

Description:

Mark is coming fully laden with tips and tricks that normal business users of Dynamics CRM will be amazed and astounded by.  Take lots of notes and return to your workplace with hints that can make your lives easier, and start you on the path to CRM power user.  Mark was involved in presenting this topic to the Auckland CRM User Group to great feedback and has kindly agreed to let us in on the secrets too. 

Further details:

User Group Website: https://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Outlook: Click HERE to save this event to your outlook calendar.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so if you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Angela on 0211331623

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested!  If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on this email address.

 

WLG Session 11 (May 11): Exploration of application integration with Office and Sharepoint.

Exploration of application integration with Office and Sharepoint.

Welcome to our next speaker in our fantastic line up – Jonathan Stuckey from Microsoft.  Jonathan has been with Microsoft for 10 years, the last 4 years as a solution specialist in New Zealand. With expertise in the Enterprise Content Management, Business Process efficiency and Office process automation, he has knowledge and experience working across Public Sector, Financial Services (retail) and Retailing.

Please find details of the session below:

Speaker: Jonathan Stuckey, Solutions Specialist, Microsoft New Zealand

Date & Time: Tuesday, 11th May 2010, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 60 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Having a look at application integration with Office, Sharepoint and some glimpses of Microsoft’s future strategy in this arena”

Description:

In this presentation Jonathan will be exploring some methods of integrating your Dynamics data with Office and Sharepoint.  Take advantage of the Microsoft stack of applications you no doubt already have in your company, and show off that hard won data in other applications.  Jonathan will highlight the possibilities at our fingertips.  If we’re lucky, he may also be able to touch on possible future strategies Microsoft are entertaining in this field.  Sounds like something your management would love to hear about.

Further details:

User Group Website: https://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Outlook: Click HERE to save this event to your outlook calendar.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so if you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Angela on 0211331623

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested!  If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on this email address.

 

Session 8: “xRM, what is it about? – Real world case studies on Microsoft Dynamics CRM”

xRM, what is it about? – Real world case studies on Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Speaker: Dirk Develter, CRM Specialist, Microsoft New Zealand

Date & Time: Thursday, 27th August, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: "xRM, what is it about? – Real world case studies on Microsoft Dynamics CRM"

Description:

The buzzword "xRM" has been around for a while since Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 was released. Have you ever wondered what solutions other organisations around the world have implemented with Microsoft Dynamics CRM? What are some of the business needs that other organisations have addressed with Microsoft Dynamics CRM? If so, then this session is for you. This is a 200 level overview session of the xRM concept with some xRM case studies, both in New Zealand and around the world.

Further details:

User Group Website: https://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Prizes:  Microsoft Wireless Mouse – courtesy of MSNZ.

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Outlook: Chick HERE to save this event to your outlook calendar.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Sun on 021 936 005

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues, friends who might be interested!

Cheers,

Sun

 

Session seven presentation available for download

Thanks for coming to our seventh session.

Here is the presentation on SkyDrive;

Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by Rex Wessels, David Brown, Jian Sun.zip

Stay tuned for our next session… 🙂

 

Session seven: Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Speaker: Rex, David and Sun, CRM Specialists from Intergen, Wellington

Date & Time: Thursday, 14th May, 6:00 – 8:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 6:00pm and 90 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Description:

CRM Accelerators are a range of add-on solutions developed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 customers and partners. Each accelerator is available at no cost and will showcase how the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform can be configured and extended to broaden marketing, sales and service capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers and partners are encouraged to further extend these accelerators to meet their specific business needs.
Since Rex and Sun last presented on three of the accelerators Notifications, Event Management, Extended Sales Forecasting at the end of last year, there has been five new ones released on Codeplex, eService, Analytics R1, Enterprise Search R1, Newsfeed Business Productivity, Business Productivity Workflow Tools Come and see the what, why and how – anything and everything about them.

Further details:

User Group Website: https://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

MSCRM accelerators: http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com

Charge: FREE!

Prizes:  PC Games – courtesy of MSNZ.

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Outlook: Chick HERE to save this event to your outlook calendar.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Sun on 021 936 005

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues, friends who might be interested!

Cheers,

Sun