Microsoft CRM V.NEXT

A colleague of mine is at the PDC at the moment and he attended an xRM session yesterday. These are the things he’s fed back from the session:

CRM 5 due for RTM around May 2010

CRM 5 has rich data federation features for sharing data between instances as well as the upcoming Azure ‘Dallas’ platform

CRM 5 includes a plug-in extensibility model for running custom managed code in the cloud hosted environment, ie sandboxed safely

Multi-tenanting has been beefed up and is more powerful

I’ll post more details as I get them! Meanwhile, here’s a video from last year’s PDC where Humberto Lezama demonstrated a little bit of CRM 5.0. Browse to the 45 minute mark for the CRM 5.0 demo…