Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-13 Thread Bill Bassler
Why do you think every CRM Sales Lead needs an AD entity? Because the CRM uses AD for identity and role based security only; not for network access purposes. I wasn't sure if the AD was used for all system entities and specifically leads with the potential to convert to customers. As per another po

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-10 Thread J. Merrill
I can't imagine that you need an AD entry for an entity (a possible future customer) that wouldn't have privileges on your network. Why do you think every CRM Sales Lead needs an AD entity? That would be a very odd design decision. (The problem you mention -- dealing with useless data represe

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-10 Thread Don Stanley
ect: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management Good info. I have more concerns ... Are there management interfaces to deprovision (hopefully extract for archiving) AD accounts. For example, with respect to AD user accounts ... each CRM Sales Leads needs an AD entity... I assum

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-10 Thread Bill Bassler
Good info. I have more concerns ... Are there management interfaces to deprovision (hopefully extract for archiving) AD accounts. For example, with respect to AD user accounts ... each CRM Sales Leads needs an AD entity... I assume. In my usage this would amount to 2-3K new AD entities per month.

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-09 Thread Don Stanley
ducts (ACT, GoldMine, etc.) and CRM was our first choice hands down. Don From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. on behalf of Bill Bassler Sent: Thu 2/9/2006 11:07 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Re

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-09 Thread Bill Bassler
One reason I can think of is MS CRM's reliance on Active Directory. How well will AD/CRM scale in the 20,000+ user scenario? What are the AD management/maintanance gotchas? === This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage y

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Brooks
> Can anyone recommend a highly extensible CRM platform based on the .net > framework? I'm aware of MS CRM and its general architecture. Then why are you looking any futher? CRM 3.0 is nothing short of amazing. -- "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." –J

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] Extensible Customer Relationship Management

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Bassler
Can anyone recommend a highly extensible CRM platform based on the .net framework? I'm aware of MS CRM and its general architecture. === This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.de