If someone of you have worked in the past on integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Sharepoint, I think that you're happy to know that now is officially available the List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
As explained on the announce, List Web Part allows users to display CRM data inside a SharePoint page. The List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 provides a subset of the Microsoft CRM record list and allows users to view records from Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a list in a SharePoint dashboard, open records in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, and connect multiple web parts to gain insight from different sources.
In addition to the features in previous release, the new enhancements are
- Multi-tenancy : Allows to choose the CRM organization to view data from
- Supports CRM Internet-facing deployment
- Supports SSL configurations
- Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit environments
- Editing of CRM Server URL : You can now edit CRM server url at anytime
- Ability to open the current view in CRM to perform additional actions in CRM such as running reports, Quick Campaigns.
- Supports personalized SharePoint pages
- Enhanced Field-Field connections between two CRM List Web Parts. Subscriber CRM List Web part would automatically filter data by matching provider's GUID with all attributes of type provider, making it very easy to establish connections like Accounts - Opportunities
- Supports Row-Row connection with 3rd party web parts
- Supports SharePoint solution deployment ( useful in server farms ) and UnInstall
- Will soon be available in all 25 languages supported by CRM 4.0.
