Marketing Software Comparison – When CRM Is Not Enough
The decision to invest in a marketing automation tool is critical to your organization’s marketing success. We recently took some time to evaluate and compare two very popular marketing solutions. First we looked at HubSpot, an “all-in-one marketing software” with a major focus on driving inbound marketing. The second product we evaluated was ClickDimensions, a Microsoft certified email marketing and marketing automation solution built for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Then we identified two pros and two cons for each solution.
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Expand the capability of your customers ERP solution with this special offer. Effective May 1, 2012 through the end of the business day on June 22, 2012, qualifying Microsoft Dynamics GP customers in the U.S. and Canada can purchase a la carte user license modules for up to 15% off of Microsoft’s Dynamics standard list price. This offer is subject to the details below.
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From May 1, 2012 through the end of the business day June 22, 2012 existing Microsoft Dynamics customers can purchase additional user licenses for up to 20% off of the standard price list for their current Microsoft Dynamics GP.
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Refining your custom SharePoint solution’s performance is an important and worthwhile effort. If your application’s lists have a few hundred or less items, then performance may not be an issue. Such low numbers are easy to process and the servers can handle it with ease in most cases. If you have nearly 1,000 lists the application may become sluggish resulting in issues being reported by the users. To avoid a sluggish system, we recommend that you review the code for the following common issues:

1. Not making unnecessary connections to the server.
2. Keeping our data sets clean of extra columns or data we don’t use.
3. Properly closing SPSite and SPWeb.
4. Loops are being handled correctly and are not redundant.
5. Wherever we query SharePoint, we’re using CAML to get our items, not simply using Linq against an item collection.
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I’ve recently been assigned many different data import tasks. For me, one of the most difficult decisions is what tool to import the data with; the out of the box Import Wizard, Scribe, Direct SQL imports, a custom C# tool? I knew that the most recent version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM had an improved out-of-the-box native import tool, but wondered how it compares to the other well-known tools. During this article I will discuss my experience importing data using the native data import tool and scribe.
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Have you ever stood in your server room and wondered if you could reduce the amount of hardware that you had to inventory, monitor, and manage? Minimizing the amount of hardware clutter is now easier than you think, and in most cases you already have some of this technology in your network.
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Healthcare Information Technology Solutions Provider Selects FMT Consultants to Integrate and Extend their Microsoft Dynamics Solutions

CARLSBAD, CA – March 21, 2012 – FMT Consultants, LLC is pleased to announce iPractice Group, a Nashville based healthcare information technology organization, as its newest client addition. iPractice Group selected FMT to help them optimize their technology investment by integrating and configuring their existing Microsoft Dynamics GP, CRM Online, and SharePoint systems.
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The GP functionality of adding the appropriate sales tax and freight to the matched invoice document in POP does not take into consideration adding the value of those additional costs to the fixed asset that is being purchased when using the Fixed Asset module.
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Money back on Microsoft products to use towards future purchases… all through your Microsoft partner
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In previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, dashboards have been made possible through the creation of custom SRS reports made accessible straight from the Main Form’s Navigation bar. We could even tailor things with a little bit of javascript so that only certain sets of eyes could view the metrics, making it a handy tool for middle and upper management. This came at a hefty price though. Creation and updates to the SRS reports were pricy and often time consuming; after all, the more ‘tricked out’ the graphs and charts were, the more complicated it was to modify them. This is not to say that SRS reports don’t have tremendous value, because they absolutely do. However, we lacked the agility to quickly create a specific set of dashboards meant to be used by different functional areas of the business. Cost factors often prevent us from creating more than one or two dashboards, inevitably leaving many sets of users to fend for themselves in searching and querying for the data they need.
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