Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement is currently one of the most successful Customer Relationship Management platforms in the market. It is capable not only of the typical Salesforce automation functionality, but it can also serve various other purposes. This flexibility, along with its various deployment options, makes it a very enticing proposition for businesses of any size.

This learning path follows a practical approach and incremental approach that provides in-depth and comprehensive information on Dynamic 365 and its new features. It starts with learning about the core platform structure. We look at the entities, relationships, modules, and internal structure of the platform. A complete hands-on to using new Unified User Interface, this course uses a sample application to show how to build complex extensions to the Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement platform using C# Plugins/Workflow Activities as well as Typescripts generated web resources.

Similarly, you’ll then learn to extend your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement business applications using HTML, Typescripts, and CSS using Knockout JS via the MVVM design pattern so that your logic can be unit tested and deployed with easy and effortless repeatability. This course also covers the considerations for mobile touch interfaces so that your feature rich extensions will work on all devices and formats.

 Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Getting Started with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement focus on the main types of licensing option available for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. We look at the requirements for each option, and how to choose the right one. You will then learn about core platform structure. We look at the entities, relationships, modules, and internal structure of the platform. Throughout this course we create a trial online environment for use during the course, look at out-of-the-box functional modules, and get a better understanding of the main platform components. By the end of the course, you will be able to use proper terminology, communicate effectively with system implementers, and understand the relationships between the various technical and functional elements.

The Second course, Designing and Building Custom Apps using Dynamics 365 demonstrate the new features released with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. Using the new Unified User Interface, this course uses a sample application to show how to build complex extensions to the Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement platform using C# Plugins/Workflow Activities as well as Typescripts generated web resources. Starting off, the course makes sure you have everything set up for fast and effective collaborative development and a mature Continuous Integration pipeline using Microsoft Team Services, npm, Nuget & Gulp. This includes automated unit testing of both server-side and client-side code as well as packaging and deploying of your solutions. It then teaches you a framework for effective data modeling of entities within Dynamics 365 and how functionality can be built up in iterations using user story mapping. You'll then learn to extend your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement business applications using HTML, Typescripts, and CSS using KnockoutJS via the MVVM design pattern so that your logic can be unit tested and deployed with easy and effortless repeatability. This course also covers the considerations for mobile touch interfaces so that your feature rich extensions will work on all devices and formats.

About the Authors:

• Nicolae Tarla is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Consultant and Business Solutions MVP, specializing in solution architecture and technical presales. He has worked on various midsize to enterprise-level Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, and Office 365 implementations for both the private and public sectors. He has been delivering Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions since version 3.0 of the platform. He has also published several books on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and has presented at conferences on this topic.

• Scott is a Microsoft Business Solutions MVP specializing in Dynamics 365. He is a committed and passionate software architect & technologist with a successful track record of realizing business vision through enterprise/application architectures that are tightly aligned with budget and timescales. By combining his detailed technical knowledge with a clear grasp of the wider commercial issues Scott can identify and implement practical solutions to real business problems. Scott is an excellent communicator and technical author, regularly speaking at conferences in the UK and abroad. Scott’s software career spans more than 20 years where he has moved from assembly language device driver programming, industrial control software and then into enterprise business applications. His experience covers work in Europe, North America, and Japan. He is also the author of the Ribbon Workbench for Dynamics CRM and SparkleXRM.