{"id":1823,"date":"2007-10-04T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/2007\/10\/04\/new-key-technologies-and-functionalities-in-crm-4-0-titan\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T03:56:00","slug":"new-key-technologies-and-functionalities-in-crm-4-0-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/new-key-technologies-and-functionalities-in-crm-4-0-titan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Key technologies and functionalities in CRM 4.0 (&#8220;Titan&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">Well!, so these are the key new stuff in CRM 4.0 (&#8220;Titan&#8221;)!!:<\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">&#8211; CRM 4.0 <EM><B><SPAN>Workflow based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation)<\/SPAN><\/B><\/EM>. This is a huge improvement and a great new from the development point of view. <STRONG><SPAN>WF<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> is a base development technology which is part of <STRONG><SPAN>.NET 3.x<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> (which is basically .NET 2.0 plus <STRONG><SPAN>WF<\/SPAN><\/STRONG>, <STRONG><SPAN>WCF<\/SPAN><\/STRONG>, <STRONG><SPAN>WPF<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> and <STRONG><I><SPAN>CardSpace<\/SPAN><\/I><\/STRONG>) with a great development visual environment based on <STRONG><SPAN>Visual Studio<\/SPAN><\/STRONG>. <STRONG><U><SPAN>WF<\/SPAN><\/U><\/STRONG><U> is the unification of all Microsoft workflow technologies, so all high level Microsoft workflows are going to be based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation)<\/U>. Historically, Microsoft had many different types of workflows technologies (<I>Exchange Server<\/I> workflow, <I>Biztalk<\/I> workflow, <I>SharePoint<\/I> kind of workflows, CMS workflows, etc.). All of them were very different and not based on a single base technology. But now, CRM 4.0, SharePoint v3 and MOSS-2007, and even probably next version of <I>Biztalk<\/I> are based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation).<\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">More new tech characteristics and new key functionality are:<\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">&#8211; A single event framework for <STRONG><SPAN>workflows<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> and <STRONG><SPAN>plug-ins<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> (aka. <STRONG><SPAN>callouts<\/SPAN><\/STRONG>).<BR>&#8211; <STRONG><SPAN>Multi tenancy<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> (Several organizations supported within the same server installation). This is a very important functionality for groups of companies or big companies split in several organizations.<BR>&#8211; <STRONG><SPAN>Multi-language<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> support<BR>&#8211; <STRONG><SPAN>Multi-currency<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> support<\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">&#8211; <STRONG><SPAN>Management environment<\/SPAN><\/STRONG>: All management is done via the Web Client. No more server win-forms management applications. <\/SPAN><\/P>\n<P><STRONG><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">&#8211; Development environment<\/SPAN><\/STRONG><SPAN lang=\"EN-US\">: Development can be done via the Web Client (like customizations or a high level workflow for business people) or Visual Studio.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well!, so these are the key new stuff in CRM 4.0 (&#8220;Titan&#8221;)!!: &nbsp; &#8211; CRM 4.0 Workflow based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation). This is a huge improvement and a great new from the development point of view. WF is a base development technology which is part of .NET 3.x (which is basically .NET 2.0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":12806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cesardelatorre","tag-titan"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Well!, so these are the key new stuff in CRM 4.0 (&#8220;Titan&#8221;)!!: &nbsp; &#8211; CRM 4.0 Workflow based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation). This is a huge improvement and a great new from the development point of view. 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