Dynamics CRM, Mobility and other stuff

CWR Mobility First to Extend the Power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:55:00 +0000

NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands, January 20 - CWR Mobility has released version 4.2 of its flagship product CWR Mobile CRM, the leading mobile solution for Dynamics CRM which is used by organizations worldwide including Danone, Nestlé, Hitachi and Sanofi Pasteur. Amongst the most important improvements is a native mobile CRM client for BlackBerry and iPhone. CWR Mobile CRM 4.2 is available immediately via a global network of certified partners, and Online in the USA and Canada.

"CWR Mobile CRM was already the most advanced mobile Dynamics CRM solution on Windows Mobile devices," said Erik van Hoof, CEO of CWR Mobility. "But we want to give our customers the freedom of choice, so we built mobile CRM clients for BlackBerry and iPhone as well as an Express version which supports mobile web browsers. Today, CWR Mobile CRM is the only solution worldwide that brings the power of Dynamics CRM to Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone. All clients have full Dynamics CRM capabilities while having the look and feel of the device it runs on. Our new Express version also runs on Android, Palm Pre and any other internet enabled Smartphone."

CWR Mobility is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, BlackBerry Alliance Member and member of the iPhone Enterprise Developer Program. The CWR Mobile CRM clients are available on the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World and Windows Mobile Marketplace.

In addition to support for BlackBerry and iPhone, the release includes further improvements on security, software development kit, power management and remote application management. A full overview of the new and improved features can be found on http://www.cwrmobility.com.

Erik van Hoof: "We have built CWR Mobile CRM on the same pillars as Microsoft CRM: it fits your people, fits your business and fits your environment. Users want their information at their fingertips with a familiar user experience on every device. The business needs tools that support business processes in a flexible way and produce a short term ROI. And IT needs solutions that snap in easily with the existing Dynamics CRM infrastructure. In CWR Mobile CRM, we've got it all covered."

About CWR Mobility

CWR Mobility is the frontrunner in the mobile CRM market. By providing the most advanced, multi-platform mobile CRM solution based on the Microsoft Dynamics platform, the company sets the market standard. In addition to increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of sales and service teams, CWR Mobility and its partners, uniquely empower customers to drive business results through rapidly-deployed mobile applications.

Merry Christmas – Santa’s Story

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Dear All,

It has been some time since our previous blog. Reason for that is that we have been extremely busy; our 4.2 release, a new version for BlackBerry and iPhone, execution of our new partner program and partner certifications, and last but not least, implementation of several large customers.

One of our latest successes has allowed us to produce a nice reference story; The implementation of Mobile CRM at Santa Clause Corporation. The full press release can be found at our website

Everybody at CWR Mobility wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, successful and HAPPY NEWYEAR!

First Certified Partner training was a success!

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:48:00 +0000

Last Friday (November 6th, 2009) we had our first Certified Partner training in the World Port Office Center in Rotterdam.

The setting was a 31 story high building in the middle of the city, with a big round glass window, overviewing the river and the Erasmus bridge. The view was astonishing!

The training was set as a full day, starting with a keynote, then splitting the group in a technical and a sales track and finally bringing the group back together to do a final presentation.

The initial key note, given by Erik van Hoof, covered a little history of CWR, the new release and the reason for the partners to become certified.

The Technical track was covered by Jeffry van de Vuurst and covered the architecture, installation, configuration and SDK features of CWR Mobile CRM. It was a very interactive and hands-on training with each aspect to be performed in a VPC (included on external haddrives, given to the technical attendees as a present).

The Sales track was covered by Mark Corley (with some interference from David Savage) and covered the Nice to have and Must have scenarios of CWR Mobile CRM, including some details and examples of deals that CWR Mobility have already deployed and implemented. After that the participants got trained in writing and performing a 30-second ‘elevator’-pitch. Each participant had to write their own pitch on CWR Mobile CRM and present their pitch to the audience. The last session included the anatomy of a deal and covered each aspect of the deal, from the initial lead to closing the deal.

At the end of the day the technical and the sales team were brought back together and setup in groups of two. each group had to prepare a small demo scenario, including some customizations and a small presentation and present that to the group.

All participants were very interactive within the group, which resulted in an informal training event with a lot of mind sharing and great creative use cases of CWR Mobile CRM.

We are happy to announce the first CWR Mobility Certified Consultants/Partners:

Trained professional	Certified Partner
Nico Verhagen	Avanade Netherlands BV
Wouter de Nooij	Avanade Netherlands BV
Dennis Schut	CRM Partners
Rik Dubbink	CRM Partners
Hans Veldman	friendlyITsolutions
Sandor Schellenberg	friendlyITsolutions
Geerten Peek	Logica
Merijn van Mourik	Logica
Remco de Haan	Logica
Sanne Groenhof	Logica
Kwinten Volckaert	Mobile Access
Tom Janssens	Mobile Access
Jones Aktan	Traviata
Kim Asselman	Traviata

CWR Mobility Certified Partners 6 Nov 2009

More information and a special Certified Partners area will be available on our website soon.

CWR Mobile CRM Express on the ZuneHD

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:39:00 +0000

While I was at the CRM User Group Summit in Chicago, I got my hands on the new ZuneHD from Microsoft. This is probably their best created piece of hardware EVER!

While playing with it, I connected it to Wifi and started browsing the internet. It then struck me that it should be able to run CWR Mobile CRM as well, as our new 4.2 version comes with a web based client as well (CWR Mobile CRM Express).

John O’donnel from the ISV Evangelism team caught me playing with the Zune and asked me if he was able to shoot a little video on the Zune running our CRM app.

He posted it on Channel9 last week and thus far we already have over 1750 views! Looks like either the Zune or CWR is pretty hot on Channel9 :)

Happy viewing!

A lot of attention at WPC09

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:38:00 +0000

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 has come to an end. It was an exciting week for us! We met a lot of interesting people and discussed even more interesting topics.

Of course we had our ‘Partner Appreciation Party’ together with our friends at Experlogix and Scribe Software. The party was a big hit with over 125 people attending! For pictures, visit the Scribe Weblog).

We demonstrated our alpha version of our iPhone client to some of our partners and we had some great feedback regarding the UI and the usability.

The most surprising moment was when we saw our own app being demonstrated at the Mobility Keynote without us knowing :) (at 27:40 in the below video of the keynote):

[MOB0VK] Mobility Solutions - Value Keynote

We want to thank everybody that we met, that were at our party, or that was actively promoting us during the WPC09. I really hope we meet again soon!!

Adding "Next/Previous" buttons to Entity Details Form Revisited...Again

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:47:00 +0000

Ok, I've been rather busy the last, eh, year. But today I got another comment on one of my most popular posts, Adding "Next/Previous" buttons to Entity Details Form Revisited.

Jeremy Winchell explained how he made this customization work for Dynamics CRM 4.0. So I thought I'd update the download to support CRM 4.0.

To make this work you have to export the ISV Config Customization from CRM. Then copy the <Entity>...</Entity> contents from the isv.config.xml file and put it between the <configuration><Entities> elements in the exported ISV Config file. Then upload the file again and voila, you have your next/previous buttons in CRM 4.0!

Thanks Jeremy!

Download the CRM 4.0 version here.

Download the CRM 3.0 version here.

WPC09 – Partnering Power!

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Next week (July 13-16, 2009) the 2009 edition of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference will take place in sunny (and hot) New Orleans.

Erik van Hoof and Omar Regoort of CWR Mobility will be there! If you would like to meet us, please schedule your time with us via WPC Connect, and we are happy to meet with you!

PARTY!

This year CWR Mobility will be jointly hosting, together with Scribe Software and Experlogix, a little after party, with food, drinks, magic and walking gambling tables (not the same as a walk-in’ fridge) at the world-famous Mother's Restaurant (home of New Orleans' best Po' Boy)…

For those of you that have no clue on what to do on wednesday evening, and did not receive an invite yet, please contact us (info @ cwrmobility dot com) to get your personal invite.

Looking forward to meeting you there!

Jerry Seinfeld's take on iPhone and BlackBerry :)

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:36:00 +0000

As you know by now we are working on a Mobile CRM client for both iPhone and BlackBerry. But after seeing this video, should we still continue this? ;)

A long time, but there is going to be news!

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:32:00 +0000

It has been some time since we posted anything on our blog…

You could say, we have become the victim of our own success :)

Over the last 6 months, CWR has expanded and grown into 12 man company (and 1 woman…).

With winning a dozen smaller accounts and some major enterprise accounts, we cannot say that we have seen the real effects of the economic crisis yet.

Thanks to all our partners for helping us achieve this!

On the other hand, we have not paid attention well enough (or should I say, we did not put the focus at the right spots in time).
While we were focusing primarily on the Windows Mobile platform (still the best enterprise mobility platform in my mind), our competition has been working on Mobile CRM solutions for the alternative platforms like BlackBerry and iPhone, some successful, some still don’t really get it ;).

We have had a lot of request for these platforms from our partners, knowing that we can deliver the full CRM system on the handheld, our solution is scalable to support small, medium as well as large enterprise implementations, and we are able to fully support the partner and customer when timing becomes critical.

I can only say, your patience will be rewarded!!!

In the deepest secret (he he) we are working full time on porting our fully configurable and flexible, online and offline client for Dynamics CRM to BlackBerry and iPhone.

Next to that we will also be releasing a special offering that makes the use of Dynamics CRM available to any user of dynamics CRM on any mobile device for the most affordable price yet.

More announcements will be made shortly before and at the World Wide Partner Conference in July.

Our current partners will be updated earlier on all the new releases from CWR Mobility.

If you are not involved with CWR Mobility yet, and you are interested in knowing more about our current and upcoming offerings, please don’t hesitate to contact us at sales @ cwrmobility.com.

Convergence 2009 New Orleans - The Power of Possibilities

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:20:00 +0000

It's the time of the year again! On March 10 until March 13, 2009, Convergence will be held at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

The Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2009 New Orleans conference is an opportunity for business decision makers (BDMs) to interact with other members of the Microsoft Dynamics community. At Convergence, BDMs will meet with other decision makers, Microsoft employees, leading ISVs and industry experts to gain knowledge, gather business insights, and increase their understanding of Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions.

In today’s difficult economic environment, there has never been more value in attending Convergence. This year is geared toward helping attendees leverage their Microsoft Dynamics solutions to increase visibility into operations and maximize efficiencies. Convergence attendees will get exposure to new technologies, will better understand their current business management software, and will have the insights they need to unleash their solution’s
full capabilities.

With over 225 session, covering areas like Dynamics CRM, Azure, Sharepoint, Exchange and many other great Microsoft products and technologies, this is the place to learn and to be ready for the future! The complete session catalog is available on the Convergence marketing site.

To register, go to Convergence Registration.

CWR Mobility will be attending again this year! We will be launching 2 great new products:

CWR Mobile CRM 4.1
The latest release of our Mobile client for Dynamics CRM 4.0
CWR Mobile CRM Online
Our mobile client is now available as a hosted service for Dynamics CRM Online. More info can be found at CWR Mobile CRM Online

To learn more about our products, please visit our booth: 1227

I am really looking forward to meet new prospects, existing customers, our partners, and many of our friends again this year!

CRM 2009 Forecast

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:04:00 +0000

Paul Greenberg, well-known CRM analyst and author of the best-selling book "CRM at the Speed of Light" did his yearly CRM forecast a few weeks ago. First he looked back at his forecast for 2008 and then he does a three-part (well 2.1 part) forecast for 2009 (part 1, part 2 and part 2.1).

I was happy to see that Mobile CRM is his number one forecast for 2009. I quote:

Mobile CRM will be in increasing demand by sales organizations in particular -
and vendors will continue to invest in it, downturn or not.

And I was happily surprised to see that the following sentence in his article linked to our website :)

the commitment of Microsoft partners
to build Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Windows Mobile solutions.

In addition to Paul Greenberg, Inside CRM also has a Top 5 CRM predictions for 2009, and guess what? Mobile CRM is again number 1!

Mobile is the New Hosted – Mobile CRM will rise beyond a “useful”
technology for sophisticated users to a pervasive application that transcends
throughout field and service workers, and even into the trades and labor
workforce.

Reading these predictions sets some high expectations for 2009 :).

Indeed, 2008 has been a great year and 2009 will be an even more exciting year for us! With a new release 4.1 of our CWR Mobile CRM solution coming soon that will set the bar even higher for Windows Mobile CRM solutions!

Talking about Mobile being the new Hosted, we recently released CWR Mobile CRM for CRM Online as a beta and you can still sign up for free during this beta period.

But there's more to come in 2009...

That being said, on behalf of CWR Mobility I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and all the best for 2009!

CWR Mobile CRM Online (beta) free trial

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:36:00 +0000

We are happy to announce the public availability of CWR Mobile CRM Online.

At this stage we operate CWR Mobile CRM Online in a beta stage. Therefore we offer our service for free to all users that have registered on our website and applied for a trial license.

This beta program will run until the end of February 2009.

During the trial period, we may be contacting you about our service and we would appreciate your honest feedback so that we can improve the service for your benefit.

At the end of the trial period, we will inform you on how you can continue the service. If we receive no response, we will automatically cancel your service after the trial period.

To sign up for the trial period, please visit http://online.cwrmobility.com and click on 'Try Now'.

We are looking forward to welcoming you as our new (beta) customer.

Visit us at Convergence EMEA 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:51:00 +0000

For the third year in a row, we will be attending Convergence EMEA.

This year (as well as last year) it will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

If you are interested in learning about our latest releases, or if you just want to connect, the please come by our booth in the Expo hall. Our booth number is E31.

Looking forward to meeting you there!

PDC 2008, here I come!

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:09:00 +0000

PDC 2008 will be held in Los Angeles from 27 to 30 October and I'm lucky enough to attend. I'm really looking forward to 4 days packed with sessions about the latest and future technologies, including a preview of Windows 7!

You name it, they have it, CRM, Cloud Services, Windows Mobile, Silverlight for Mobile and much, much more. This is developer's heaven :).

Are you going to PDC? Drop me a line so we can hook up. Also, any tips about what to do in the LA area are appreciated. I've never been to LA, so I'm hoping to get some time for sight seeing (although it's going to be difficult with so many great sessions...).

Microsoft CRM 4.0 as a Rapid Development Platform

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:02:00 +0000

Dave Yack recently released the book "Microsoft CRM 4.0 as a Rapid Development Platform". Dave is a real expert on Dynamics CRM, I attended his training in Amsterdam when CRM 4.0 was still called Titan.

The thing I personally like about this book is that it's a real Developer book. It really does a deep dive into building applications on the Dynamics CRM platform.

Together with the book there's a website, www.thecrmbook.com. If you buy the book (which I recommend) you can download the book code here. This is not a small set of individual samples, but a complete code framework that helps you build solutions better and faster.

And that's not all, there's also the how-to video's that he's releasing on the website, which are free.

All in all, a great value for your money if you consider yourself a (Dynamics CRM) developer!

Dave (and Julie ofcourse), congratulations with this book!

CWR Mobility on Channel 9

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:20:00 +0000

At the WPC in Houston we had some time to sit down with Ben Riga. While we were talking about our solution, Ben suddenly asked if it was OK to video our conversation to be posted on Channel9.

For some reason we really got to explain deeply what our application/mobile platform does. I think it's because of the way Ben is asking questions and understanding what we are doing.

Featured on Channel9, isn't that a developers dream? (I know it was Jeffry's ;-) )

Partner Conference: CRM Mobility with CWR

Links:
Ben Riga's Deep Shift
Channel9

Subversion to CRM integration - Part One

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:20:00 +0000

At CWR Mobility we use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 as our bugtracking/features system. You know, sort of eating your own dogfood :).

We use a customized Case entity to track bugs, features and inquiries. We log things like version number, estimated hours to fix/implement, actual hours, etc.

Now we recently moved to Subversion for our sourcecontrol and I thought it would be a good idea to integrate these two systems.

This integration consists of three parts and it's a work in progress. This post describes part one (the easy part).

Log case numbers when committing code and linking to the case in CRM (Part One).
Store revision and changeset information in a custom entity in CRM upon commit in Subversion (Part Two).
Linking from the revision information in CRM to the changelog in Subversion using WebSVN a web-based Subversion repository browser (Part Three).

We are using TortoiseSVN as our Subversion client.

Subversion allows you to add "bugtraq" properties to your repository folders. The first thing we do is add the following properties to the repository root folder using the "svn propset" command. Execute these commands in the command prompt:

svn propset bugtraq:label "CaseID:" .
svn propset bugtraq:message "CaseID: %%BUGID%%" .
svn propset bugtraq:number "false" .
svn propset bugtraq:warnifnoissue "false" .
svn propset bugtraq:url http://crmserver:5555/cs/cases/refertocase.htm?caseid=%BUGID% .
svn commit -q -m "Added CaseId properties to the repository"

Have a look at the TortoiseSVN help file for explanation of these properties, it should be pretty clear. The most important ones are the bugtraq:number and bugtraq:url properties:

bugtraq:number "false" means that your not restricted to entering numbers for the CaseID. We are entering a CRM case number, e.g. CAS-01234, so we set it to "false".
bugtraq:url contains the url that is used to link to the Case in the bugtracking system.

The url for opening a case in CRM is http://crmserver:5555/cs/cases/edit.aspx?id={SOME_GUID}

We need to link to the CRM case using the case number (the number we add when committing code), not using the case id (primary key), so we need to create an intermediate page that translates the case number to the case id. This is the page you see in the bugtraq:url, namely refertocase.htm. This page takes the CAS-01234 number as a querystring parameter and we use a client-side webservice call to retrieve the related case id and then redirect the request to the official CRM page.

You can find the refertocase.htm page and the tortoisesvn.bat file in the attached zip file.

Note: we put the refertocase.htm in the cases subfolder, which isn't officially supported. You could just put it in the isv folder if you want, but then the code in the refertocase.htm needs to be adjusted a bit to point to the correct edit.aspx page.

Now, with these Subversion properties, when you commit a change you will see a textbox called "CaseID:" where you can enter the CAS-01234 case number.

Then, when you view the svn log file, you will see a column called "CaseID:" and when you click on a log entry containing a CaseID, the log message will contain a clickable link that will link to the CRM Case:

So here it is, the first part of the Subversion to CRM integration. We added a CaseID to Subversion and when you enter a CaseID to a changeset it shows up as a clickable link in the log message. This way when viewing the logs you can easily refer to the related case in CRM. Part two will discuss storing changeset/revision information in CRM using a post-commit hook in Subversion. Stay tuned!

Partner Case Study: CWR Mobility BV

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000

We recently blogged about the new promotional video we did together with Microsoft.

As part of these promotional activities Microsoft also created a Partner Case Study about CWR Mobility BV. You can also view the video there or download our Microsoft Dynamics Partner Solution Brief.

CWR Mobile CRM v4.0.0.7

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:41:00 +0000

We just released v4.0.0.7 of CWR Mobile CRM. This release includes a number of fixes and some additions to the client-side SDK.

Take a look at the release notes here and request a trial here.

Ok, and in a few hours we're heading for the WPC in Houston. See you there!

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Wiki

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:05:00 +0000

ISV Evangelist John O'Donnell blogs about the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM Wiki. A great initiative if you ask me.

I've recently become a real fan of Wiki's since we've started our own wiki (I know, a tad late).

I wanted to subscribe to it, but the RSS feed points to the general Channel 9 RSS which is a bit too much information overload for me :).

CWR Mobility Joins Microsoft's Mobility Partner Advisory Council

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:07:00 +0000

Bunschoten, July 1st 2008 - CWR Mobility announced today its participation in the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC)

MPAC is an invitation-only partner program developed by Microsoft Corp. to establish synergies among leading industry partners, in an effort to accelarate the introduction of innovative and successful mobile solutions to market.

MPAC membership will provide CWR Mobility with early access to upcoming Microsoft mobile products and to extensive marketing and technical information. This will assist CWR Mobility in integrating its own products and solutions with the next generations of Windows Mobile-based devices.

At the same time CWR Mobility will supply Microsoft with feedback based on the experience gathered in the development and marketing of its own products, while also sharing the benefit of an effective exchange of information with other MPAC partners, including industry-leading independent software and hardware vendors (ISVs & IHVs), consolidated solution providers and system integrators.

"We are honoured to accept Microsoft's invitation to join the Mobility Partner Advisory Council," said Erik van Hoof, CEO and co-founder of CWR Mobility BV. "MPAC offers the ideal environment to work more closely with Microsoft and with a selected group of leading innovators to bring new mobility solutions to market. We consider our participation in the Mobility Partner Advisory Council as a challenge to contribute to the shaping of the mobile computing ecosystem."

WPC 2008 in Houston, and we are there!

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:26:00 +0000

Only 7 more days and then we are going to Houston, Texas.

It is time for the annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

Roughly 7000 Microsoft Partners (and some 2000 Microsoft Employees) will come together to exchange the latest and greatest of Microsoft's current and upcoming technologies.

This year Jeffry and I will be attending for the second time, so we know what is coming :)

If you want to meet us, send us an email, so we can set a date, time and location, or simple meet us at one of our sessions or at the Windows Mobile Booth:

MOB008 Hot Devices, Hot Applications and Hotter Opportunities with Windows Mobile 6.1
Wednesday, July 9 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, 382 ABC

MOB008 Hot Devices, Hot Applications and Hotter Opportunities with Windows Mobile 6.1 (repeated)
Thursday, July 10 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 382 ABC
Speaker(s): Mark Grady
Session Type: Breakout Session
This session will feature the latest Windows Mobile devices coming to market or just released in 2008 which have the new Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. We will highlight these devices and a series of innovative applications and services that partners can sell. The session will also feature a leading partner who has successfully sold services and applications for Windows Mobile.

Windows Mobile Booth #758
Live Demonstration of CWR Mobile CRM Online
Tuesday, July 8 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, Booth#758 at the Microsoft Pavilion.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

The ultimate Vista Machine

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:58:00 +0000

For the development of the iPhone version of CWR Mobile CRM (yes, we are working on it....) we needed to get an Apple machine to get all the development tools running.

Although Apple is trying to get the best user experience from it's OSX 10.5, I am still a fan of Windows Vista (it's just what you are used to, I guess).

But then I discovered Boot Camp. A Boot configuration tool that is installed default on a Mac OSX 10.5 machine. This tool allows you to run both Mac OSX as well as Windows Vista on 1 (beautiful) machine.

I just installed Windows Vista on it and it runs like crazy. It is fast. A beautifull screen and all the drivers for Vista are installed on the Apple CD (why? Maybe they think we should be running Vista on this machine as well...)
Even the built-in webcam works :)

So now I can develop both in Visual Studio as well as in XCode on 1 machine.... And what a machine it is....

New promotional video

noreply@blogger.com (Erik @ CWR Mobility) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:14:00 +0000

Together with Microsoft we were able to create a promotional video on how we have leveraged the power of Dynamics CRM and Windows Mobile to build one of the most advanced Mobile line-of-business applications: CWR Mobile CRM

CWR Mobility Wiki

noreply@blogger.com (Jeffry @ CWR Mobility) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:01:00 +0000

A while ago I read that AdvantageWorks was migrating documentation to a Wiki site and I thought that was a good idea because of the reasons mentioned in their post.

Recently we've taken the same step and put together the CWR Mobility Wiki. As always with a wiki, it's a work in progress. You'll find product documentation, release notes/version history, installation guides, howto's etc.

Content can be discussed using the Discuss button. You don't need an account for that. If you want to add/edit pages however you'll need an account.

Every page has its own RSS feed, but there's also a general RSS feed you can subscribe to to be notified of any changes.

E.g., if you want to be notified of new versions, it's useful to subscribe to the Version History RSS feed.

As always, feedback is appreciated!