Chapter 21. Future Directions for Microsoft CRM

In this chapter

Background

Market Timing

The Next Step—Microsoft Business Framework (MBF)

Short- and Long-Term Direction

Summary

While we'd love to be able to paint a detailed picture of what the future will hold for Microsoft CRM, at the time of this writing future feature sets for Microsoft CRM have not been published. At a high level, we have heard that a version 2.0 will be released in early 2004 and will introduce international versions as well as de-duplication and record merging functionality. These two features have been highly requested additions to the product. We have also heard that a version 3.0 will be released approximately one year after version 2.0 (early 2005) and will include some ...

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