Let’s start with what exactly marketing automation is. It is a tool that allows you to effectively develop and analyze marketing campaigns and organize customer data. Marketing Automation software will allow you to keep track of your campaigns as well as any e-mail/ phone/ in-person interactions.

The following guide describes how to set up a 13th period in Microsoft Dynamics GP:
1. Open the Fiscal Periods Setup window: Microsoft Dynamics GP menu >> Tools >> Setup >> Company >> Fiscal Periods
2. Enter the year.
3. Enter the first day and last day of the fiscal year.

Sometimes you may have separate Dynamics CRM installations or instances to help better run your organization. Different departments use CRM software for different reasons. For example, your marketing and sales departments will use it for your customers, suspects and prospects. In order to manage the payroll side for your sales department, Human Resources may use it for your employees to calculate their commission on sales.

After the much awaited launch of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 last December, we were thrilled to test the product and experience the new features of this highly acclaimed ERP software. According to Microsoft, the motto of Dynamics GP 2013 is to “think forward, increase productivity and stay ahead,” and we agree with them. Now, let’s talk about new features and user productivity.

One of the many cool new features in the recent update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2012 is embedded Bing maps. Address fields are already a part of many of your Customer Relationship Management records, and with Bing maps, you can now easily take advantage of this geo-data for visualization. Of course, it had been possible to generate Bing maps in MS Dynamics CRM before, but it generally required some coding or else purchasing 3rd-party packages.