From ADXSTUDIO in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, is ADXSTUDIO XRM Extensions

ADXSTUDIO XRM Extensions has been created to be the primary vehicle from which to implement powerful self-service web portal applications.

 

It really does increase the functionality of Dynamics CRM through its Developer Toolkit and portal management modules. It has been built using best practices for ASP.NET development. It is remarkably easy to use, even the first time, and therefore on further uses it becomes easy to customise, and with the extensions all supporting the CRM deployment models (on-premise, partner-hosted, and CRM Online) organisations have the flexibility to choose whichever best supports their business needs.

 

There are several ways to use ADXSTUDIO XRM, but first should be the CRM Developer Toolkit, which working from a simple framework allows you to develop any internet enabled applications that you have installed that integrate with Dynamics CRM much faster than anything else, this is possibly due to its ability to leverage the newer technologies such as Windows Azure and Silverlight.

 

It also has the ability to make Silverlight appear simple to use. The most impressive feature of the extensions is possibly the Web Content Management which allows for a higher degree of flexibility when developing your CMS; this flexibility shows itself not only in how it can be developed but how it can be presented and how it can be utilised. It would appear that little or no experience of Dynamics CRM is needed to use this as an administrator and still achieve excellent results, its development does require experience, and this is the case with all such modules and to be expected.

 

A neat twist on the community page is the Forum Module which allows for you to track your community, those customers who you are working with are active and they can be tracked by showing their postings and it gives a perfect insight into what they like and more importantly dislike making the tracking and objection handling of your clients much more simple. It also allows your customers to see how attentive to their needs you are, this is potentially hazardous as we all slip despite our best intentions, however if you can keep up then it will be a useful tool.

 

There are a number of other extras, such as Event Management, Membership Management, Profile Management and Shopping Cart which allows you to extend what is already established in Dynamics CRM, but they are more nice toys to play with than serious development kits, but they are still worthwhile. The development of each of the modules allows you to make more of Dynamics CRM and this all that they claim to do, to that end they have clearly succeed and having a chopped down trial version downloadable for free, shows the confidence they have in their solution.

 

If you are looking to get more utilisation out of your Dynamics CRM system then AXSTUDIO XRM is a starting point to reach a whole new level of development.