CloudFronts Technologies has been selected by Microsoft to join the AX 7 Technical Preview Program! At the AXUG event in Reno last month, Daniel Brown, GM for Dynamics AX R &D and Sri Srinivasan, GM for Microsoft Business Solutions Platform for Dynamics, confirmed that AX 7 will be available in Q1 2016. As a leader in AX Integrations, Customizations and AX migrations, our AX teams have already started learning this new platform. Our internal ‘AX 7 Excellence Project’ is designed to allow our AX teams quickly learn the Functional and Technical changes in this upcoming release. Our Project tasks are setup in Agile Sprints of 2 weeks to ensure quick learning. AX 7 also adds many new features and deprecates several existing features. The Microsoft white paper for the new changes and deprecated features can be downloaded here. Our single goal is to ensure we are ready to advise and migrate our current and new clients to this modern platform and we have all the capabilities in house to help our clients succeed with their AX 7 deployments! Some Key features of AX 7 are listed below – Cloud First – Microsoft confirmed that AX 7 will be initially only available for cloud deployments through Azure & LCS. Additional details can be found here – http://msdynamicsworld.com/story/microsoft-dynamics-ax-7-will-launch-azure-first-promises-better-upgrade-experience Mobility – AX 7 promises a great mobile experience across various mobile devices and mobile platforms. LCS – AX 7 will be fully deployable through Microsoft Life Cycle Services (LCS) to ensure a smooth deployment process with very little manual setup! Web based client – AX 7 will finally move AX to a fully browser based experience on desktops! No more AX client installs, as AX 7 will only work on browsers. Standard browsers like Chrome, FireFox and IE will be supported. A modern UI – AX 7 will introduce a sophisticated modern web UI keeping in line with other Dynamics solutions like CRM.

CloudFronts will be present at the Scribe Tech Tour and AXUG & CRMUG Summit starting from Oct. 11th to Oct. 15th., where you can meet and share your thoughts or requirements with us. Scribe Tech Tour : Oct 11th Meet us at the Scribe Tech Tour 2015 on Oct 11th at Reno, NV, where Anil Shah will speak and demonstrate the capabilities of Scribe. It is a perfect opportunity to discuss your data integration needs in-person with our integration specialists. AXUG & CRMUG Summit 2015 : Oct 13th – Oct 15th Experience AXUG and CRMUG Summit 2015 with CloudFronts and participate in interactive sessions that offer valuable content for all Dynamics AX & CRM users.

Gravity Form is a popular contact form Plugin for WordPress. We have integrated Gravity Forms with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Web to Lead conversions. When a prospect fills out the Contact Us page on your website, the details are submitted to Dynamics CRM and the Lead record is created. A simple workflow can notify the sales team members to follow up on this new Lead. This functionality will help companies easily integrate their WordPress Contact Us page with Dynamics CRM Online… without any manual data entry! We are already using and testing it for the Contact Us page on our WordPress site – https://www.cloudfronts.in/contact-us/ You can preview the complete working of the functionality in the following video. To know more about this upcoming feature, pricing and availability please drop a mail to us at info@cloudfronts.com

CloudFronts Technologies is proud to announce that we have now formed a dedicated Azure IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Practice to cater to our partners and customers’ growing cloud infrastructure requirements. Over the past 3 years we have seen Azure continue to evolve by adding more data centers around the globe and through deep infrastructure management capabilities. Initially we focused on deploying simple CRM Portals, non-critical VMs and other services that were not always mission critical. With the robust capabilities now offered by Azure we now starting to deploy mission critical applications and infrastructure for our clients around the globe. Ensuring these environments are always available and secure, is of the highest priority for our customers. Our Azure IaaS Practice will provide complete infrastructure solutions to our customers and this includes deploying production grade applications on Azure. Over the course of the next few weeks we will continue to upgrade our website with additional details on our Azure practice and capabilities.  

CloudFronts Technologies is pleased to announce our Quick Start Package for the Sales + Marketing Automation QuickStart which includes Dynamics CRM Online with ClickDimensions. CRM Online is a state-of-the-art CRM solution offered completely in the cloud through Microsoft’s Office 365 platform. ClickDimensions allows you take your Email Marketing and web content and integrate it seamlessly with your Dynamics CRM Online. For example, you can design emails with us, send them to Leads and Contacts, and get live statistics on who interacted with your message. You can also see Leads and Contacts browsing your website, use forms to generate new Leads and Contacts, track survey responses, and much more. This document provides details on the key features of our QuickStart package to allow Small & Medium companies to get up and running on CRM Online Sales and Marketing Automation quickly: 30 Day Trial CRM Online set up in Office 365 Domain Setup CRM Email Sync setup: Server Side Synchronization for Exchange Online or CRM for Outlook for Exchange On premise Optimized Business process flow setup (Lead to Opportunity Sales Process) Insights by InsideView for social media. i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook etc. 4 Hours Consultation for CloudFronts Sales Best Practices Pre-configured Sales Dashboards for Sales Person and Sales Manager Sales Forecasting Report ClickDimensions Deployment CRM For Phones Deployment on your supported device 4 Hours Best Practices & Training on Marketing Automation with ClickDimensions Assumptions, Terms & Conditions Quick Start implementations are for CRM Online only through Office 365. This QuickStart implementation is for new CRM Online customers only. Existing Customers with CRM Online deployments can contact us for a review of their processes by submitting your requirements here. Pricing is based on a rapid implementation that does not involve any 3rd party solutions or any CRM configuration or customization outside of our QuickStart offering. Any changes to the existing Sales and Marketing QuickStart will be addressed through a formal CR (change request) process. Anything not explicitly mentioned in this document is considered out of scope. All license costs are additional. We will sign you up for a free 30 day CRM Online trial during which we will deploy our solution. There are no license costs for CRM for this 30 day trial. ClickDimensions licensing costs are mentioned here: http://clickdimensions.com/pricing/. We recommend selecting the Standard or higher option. There will be a dedicated CRM user that will be assigned to us and used in the future as well. Typically this user is crmadmin@domain.com. This user will consume a full CRM Professional license.  

Gravity Form is a popular contact form Plugin for WordPress. We have integrated Gravity Forms with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Web to Lead conversions. When a prospect fills out the Contact Us page on your website, the details are submitted to Dynamics CRM and the Lead record is created. A simple workflow can notify the sales team members to follow up on this new Lead. This functionality will help companies easily integrate their WordPress Contact Us page with Dynamics CRM Online… without any manual data entry! We are already using and testing it for the Contact Us page on our WordPress site – https://www.cloudfronts.in/contact-us/ You can preview the complete working of the functionality in the following video. To know more about this upcoming feature, pricing and availability please email us at info@cloudfronts.com

Over the past few months we have implemented several new initiatives with a single goal of ensuring our Client’s Success with their CRM deployments! One of our initiatives is the CRM Excellence project. This is an ongoing project at CloudFronts where team members are assigned 2 week tasks (Agile Sprints) to learn new features of CRM, document it as a blog article and finish with an internal demo to our CRM, Sales, Marketing & Project teams. The goal of this exercise is to ensure we are constantly learning new features and leveraging it to provide value to our clients. In continuing our CRM Excellence initiative, CloudFronts has also joined the CRM 2015 Fall Release Preview program. This program is run by Microsoft and allows early access to Partners to upcoming features in CRM and provide value input. Our goal from this program is to learn early about new features and prepare for the release. As new CRM features continue to roll out every few months, our enrollment in the Preview program will benefit our customers and allow us to provide additional business value! In addition, CloudFronts has also expressed an interest to be part of ‘alpha’ CRM programs (very early in the new feature development). We are awaiting Microsoft feedback on the same. To know more or to discuss your requirements, feel free to mail us at info@cloudfronts.com OR provide us your details here.

September is shaping up to be an exciting month for some very useful CRM Webinars by our team members! Our team is going to present the entire Sales & Marketing process from – Running a Campaign in ClickDimensions Website to Lead Conversion Lead to Opportunity Process. KPIs & Metrics using Power BI! Register for this exciting Webinar Series here – https://www.cloudfronts.in/webinar-sept-22nd-to-sept-24th-sales-marketing-blitz-series/.

We know that you rely on your CRM or AX or BI solution for your business operations! We understand that these solutions always need to be working, but we also understand that sometimes there are issues and you need to know that you can get help from us! We are happy to announce various new additions to our Support Teams! 24 hours a day, 5 days a week No matter what time zone you are in, we are always working! Our L1 Support teams are constantly monitoring our support queues for any new issues that are submitted to support@cloudfronts.com. So go ahead, send us your issues! Support Portal Our Client Support Portal is now live! You can now create, update and close tickets directly from the portal. To request portal access please email us at support@cloudfronts.com and we will get your access setup right away! Service Level Agreements We are now offering Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to our clients for guaranteed response times! Contact us today by sending an email to support@cloudfronts.com to discuss next steps! To know more or to discuss your requirements, feel free to mail us at info@cloudfronts.com OR provide us your details here.