CRM 2011 Released for On-Premise and Partner-Hosted Installation

Microsoft is moving quickly on the heels of the January release of CRM 2011 Online, and this week's release of the 2011 Implementation Guide and SDK, they have now released the RTM version of Dynamics CRM 2011 for on-premise and partner-hosted installation. Available from the Microsoft download site.

Microsoft Demos Dynamics CRM 2011

Microsoft unveiled the next version of Dynamics CRM at the Worldwide Partner Conference this week. They also announced the name of what has been referred to as version 5: Dynamics CRM 2011.

Some highlights of what they revealed:

• A public beta will be available in September 2010, starting with CRM Online
• CRM Online will continue to roll out internationally with the RTM release, becoming available in 40 countries
• A new marketplace for pre-built solutions will be launched in September

Additionally, they demonstrated some of the features of CRM 2011 that have been the subject of much buzz:

• Role-based forms and views
• Inline visualizations
• User-created dashboards
• Guided dialogs (think of automated, real-time workflows with user input and feedback)
• Tight SharePoint integration supported natively

"CRM 5" Preview

Simon Hutson has a great blog post where he's compiled a lot of the publicly available information about what Microsoft is cooking up for the next version of CRM, creatively code-named "CRM 5." Lots of exciting stuff for us CRM geeks!