CRMUG UK Q2 Meeting Thursday 17th July 2014, London

Supporting a Changing Business
Skills Development Scotland is Scotland’s national skills body, combining careers, skills, training and funding services. SDS has over 800 CRM users across 50 sites providing services to in excess of 185,000 customers per annum.
SDS has undergone significant changes to its service offering in the last 2 years. This session will describe how a small internal team has supported the changes to the CRM system to support this.
Martin O’Neill, Skills Development Scotland

One-Click Dynamics CRM Deployments
Find out how you can automate the build and deployment processes for your CRM solutions. The session will demonstrate how the latest tools from the CRM SDK, TFS 2013, Visual Studio Release Management & xRM CI Framework can work together to implement end to end one-click deployments of your enterprise Dynamics CRM Solutions across all your environments. This will allow you to deliver CRM more frequently in a consistent and reliable way.
Wael Hamze, CRM Centre of Excellence, Barclays Investment Bank

Round Table – Using CRM for Public Sector services
Local and regional Government, Councils, Social Housing, healthcare, QUANGOs, and many other organisations use CRM in a similar way to provide services to a huge audience of citizens, residents, or businesses. These might be free at the point of use, so the sales module might be entirely ignored, but the service area is likely to be highly customised to suit this type of work. Often there are significant considerations about record security and segmenting access according to type, particularly around data considered "sensitive" under DPA such as physical or mental health, or criminal offences.
Please join your peers to share you experiences of using CRM to meet these challenges and manage public services in a cost effective manner.
Chair TBC

Data Visualisation – Art or Science?
Best practices for designing charts to help people understand their business data effortlessly.
This will cover the "what should I do?" and "why?" rather than the technical ins-and-outs of how to achieve this with a specific piece of software. The main focus will be on Dynamics CRM charts and dashboards, but the approaches are just as valid using Excel, PowerPivot, SSRS or big analytics products.
Adam Vero, CRM Masters

CRM & BPM – Better Together!

Dynamics CRM 2013 is fuelling interest in the potential to deliver new and innovative customer services from CRM.  But without resorting to complex and costly XRM based coding projects, the scope is often limited. Business Process Management (BPM) tools such as PNMsoft Sequence, organisations can realise the full potential of CRM. 
When South West Water migrated to Dynamics CRM, a requirement to deliver critical Service Management functionality in short time was achieved through a BPM approach.
In this session, you will see how to quickly and easily create powerful workflow-driven CRM functionality with zero coding; connect your CRM activities with your existing ERP, SharePoint and other platforms and easily adapt, change and deploy CRM processes in line with changing business needs.
James Luxford, CTO PNMsoft (CRMUG Partner Member)

Round Table – Charity Management using Dynamics CRM
Many charities use CRM for similar things, such as tracking private and corporate donations; organising events, volunteers and regional groups of supporters; and managing services to the community. Are you also using CRM to manage your digital marketing, using built in functionality or third party solutions? If you are using or considering Microsoft Dynamics CRM to manage a charity, come and share your experiences with your peers.
Chaired by Seemant Rajvanshi, Macmillan Cancer Support

Stop, Collaborate and Listen!
How to get support from your peers through various online channels
Joel Abbott, XRM Consultant

Demystifying CTI for the common good.
Have you thought about Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) but saw it as black magic? Do the words VOIP, PSDN, IVR, PBX, CLI mean anything?
What about Preview dialling, predictive dialling, power dialling, screen popping…  and now Microsoft has added USD!
This session aims to demystify the area of integrating CRM with telephony. CTI is not just for call centres and can improve any telephone-based customer interactions, so CTI can be a key factor in improving customer service in any organisation.
Rowland Dexter, QGate