SharePoint is a mighty platform and it has a lot of features. One of the main advantages of SharePoint is that it can be a central place of information presence in the organization. Central means other line of business applications can be integrated with SharePoint in order to expose essential business data or to consume SharePoint capabilities as an information management tool.
As an example of the integration between SharePoint and business application I'm going to publish a set of articles illustrating integration of Dynamics CRM and SharePoint in order to solve business issues, increase business process efficiency and decrease costs.
In this example I will demonstrate how to leverage SharePoint collaboration, workflow, extensibility and other features.
Scenario
An organization has relationships with third-parties. Accounts, customers, members, suppliers etc. The organization has a SharePoint Web site and Dynamics CRM where the information about third-parties is processed. As the current business process dictates, large number of external clients - agents in this sample - needs to contact organization via email, fax, regular mail or in person in order to submit important business information - applications in this scenario. We will create a public SharePoint Web site where agents can submit applications and then those applications will be copied automatically to Dynamics CRM and when their processing in CRM is finished some feedback will be published back to the SharePoint Web site and agents will be able to see the status of the application in CRM online on the SharePoint Web site.
This simple scenario will help us to understand how the integration of SharePoint and other LOB application works and to help us implementing similar solutions in the future.
Stay tuned. :)
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Solution Part 2
As an example of the integration between SharePoint and business application I'm going to publish a set of articles illustrating integration of Dynamics CRM and SharePoint in order to solve business issues, increase business process efficiency and decrease costs.
In this example I will demonstrate how to leverage SharePoint collaboration, workflow, extensibility and other features.
Scenario
An organization has relationships with third-parties. Accounts, customers, members, suppliers etc. The organization has a SharePoint Web site and Dynamics CRM where the information about third-parties is processed. As the current business process dictates, large number of external clients - agents in this sample - needs to contact organization via email, fax, regular mail or in person in order to submit important business information - applications in this scenario. We will create a public SharePoint Web site where agents can submit applications and then those applications will be copied automatically to Dynamics CRM and when their processing in CRM is finished some feedback will be published back to the SharePoint Web site and agents will be able to see the status of the application in CRM online on the SharePoint Web site.
This simple scenario will help us to understand how the integration of SharePoint and other LOB application works and to help us implementing similar solutions in the future.
Stay tuned. :)
Updated:
Solution Part 1
Solution Part 2
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