Miscrosoft CRM goes Live!

You may wonder what the heck that has to do with Humberto. Well, I’m working as a Project Manager intern in the CRM team at Microsoft Headquarters and I feel excited about the upcoming release of Microsoft CRM (codename Titan; yeah, I love to put ‘codenames’ everywhere I can :) ).

CRM Live will be an online version of MSCRM hosted in Microsoft Data Centers, so users will just have to sign up for an account and they will be ready to go; like if they were signing up for a new email account.

To tell the truth I have no direct connection with the ‘Live’ part of the product yet. My work here has been focused on *** with the marketing automation parts of the system. Yeah the *** are confidential information :( . By the way, I feel me pretty good because yesterday I officially completed my first feature spec; of course there will be some minor adjustments to it on the way but is pretty much done :)!!

More info about the team I work with can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

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