Excel Services as report system for CRM

Today I held a presentation at this years SharePoint and Exchange Forum in Nynäshamn, close to Stockholm, here in Sweden. Lots of very interesting experts here like Patrick Tisseghem, Michael Noel and Nick Swan, not forgetting my boss, Göran Husman and other great speakers from Microsoft and other companies.

The presentation I held was BDM-focused and concerned the power of simple mesh-up integration between SharePoint and MS CRM 3. The main point being that SharePoint has a lot of great features that can be used by other applications.

One of the most powerful ones is excel services that can very powerfully be used as a reports tool for MS CRM. The main advantages being the ease of use for the end users and report owners since they easily can modify their own reports with Excel.

It is almost too simple to write a blog about it, since it is very straight forward, but I will see if I can get something together anyway.

By the way, I am expecting to be a father around the 1:st of june (my first child!) and I migth be a bit absent for a week or two after this event, but I will be back.

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

Different versions of MOSS

There are as many of you know, different versions of MOSS, mainly standard and enterprise. What differs them from eachother? Is excel services included in std? Want more exclamation marks than questionmarks? Have a look at this product comparisson from Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT102011901033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101978031033


Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se