I haven’t had a chance to test this yet but it should be pretty interesting. Hoovers recently announced integration to Microsoft Dynamics CRM called Access Hoovers.

Hoovers http://www.hoovers.com is a very popular tool for sales and marketing people to research companies, people, and industries.

Know More About Your Prospects Than Ever Before

Increase your sales team’s productivity by leveraging our global database of more than 28 million public and private companies and 36 million executives. Access Hoover’s offers the breadth you need for targeted prospecting and the depth required for insight and strategic intelligence.

• Find new prospects by creating targeted lists that meet your specific criteria
• Enhance existing account or lead information with more than 50 data points
• Export data seamlessly into Microsoft Dynamics through an easy-to-use interface

I’ll post more detail after I have a chance to use it.

I’ve been falling a bit behind on keeping this place up to date.

Microsoft recently released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (KB 961768). The update rollup contains a cumulative collection of updates and hotfixes.

Additional detail is at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=961768

The download is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=05453fa4-9551-4a88-9852-634a9ad0e140

Microsoft recently changed the frequency of update rollup releases. They used to release them a couple times a year. Now they’re planning to release them in eight week cycles so we should see another one sometime in May.

I would strongly suggest applying this Update Rollup in your test environment first to see if it causes any issues. The last one, Update Rollup 2 (and the slightly revised one they released I call Update Rollup 2-1/2), caused a few different issues. Some companies ran into quirkiness with stuff like navigation and workflow after applying UR2.

And make sure to do a full backup before applying it. But you do that regularly anyway, right?