Jerry Seinfeld's take on iPhone and BlackBerry :)

As you know by now we are working on a Mobile CRM client for both iPhone and BlackBerry. But after seeing this video, should we still continue this? ;)

A long time, but there is going to be news!

It has been some time since we posted anything on our blog…

You could say, we have become the victim of our own success :)

Over the last 6 months, CWR has expanded and grown into 12 man company (and 1 woman…).

With winning a dozen smaller accounts and some major enterprise accounts, we cannot say that we have seen the real effects of the economic crisis yet.

Thanks to all our partners for helping us achieve this!

On the other hand, we have not paid attention well enough (or should I say, we did not put the focus at the right spots in time).
While we were focusing primarily on the Windows Mobile platform (still the best enterprise mobility platform in my mind), our competition has been working on Mobile CRM solutions for the alternative platforms like BlackBerry and iPhone, some successful, some still don’t really get it ;).

We have had a lot of request for these platforms from our partners, knowing that we can deliver the full CRM system on the handheld, our solution is scalable to support small, medium as well as large enterprise implementations, and we are able to fully support the partner and customer when timing becomes critical.

I can only say, your patience will be rewarded!!!

In the deepest secret (he he) we are working full time on porting our fully configurable and flexible, online and offline client for Dynamics CRM to BlackBerry and iPhone.

Next to that we will also be releasing a special offering that makes the use of Dynamics CRM available to any user of dynamics CRM on any mobile device for the most affordable price yet.

More announcements will be made shortly before and at the World Wide Partner Conference in July.

Our current partners will be updated earlier on all the new releases from CWR Mobility.

If you are not involved with CWR Mobility yet, and you are interested in knowing more about our current and upcoming offerings, please don’t hesitate to contact us at sales @ cwrmobility.com.

Convergence 2009 New Orleans - The Power of Possibilities

It's the time of the year again! On March 10 until March 13, 2009, Convergence will be held at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

The Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2009 New Orleans conference is an opportunity for business decision makers (BDMs) to interact with other members of the Microsoft Dynamics community. At Convergence, BDMs will meet with other decision makers, Microsoft employees, leading ISVs and industry experts to gain knowledge, gather business insights, and increase their understanding of Microsoft Dynamics business management solutions.

In today’s difficult economic environment, there has never been more value in attending Convergence. This year is geared toward helping attendees leverage their Microsoft Dynamics solutions to increase visibility into operations and maximize efficiencies. Convergence attendees will get exposure to new technologies, will better understand their current business management software, and will have the insights they need to unleash their solution’s
full capabilities.

With over 225 session, covering areas like Dynamics CRM, Azure, Sharepoint, Exchange and many other great Microsoft products and technologies, this is the place to learn and to be ready for the future! The complete session catalog is available on the Convergence marketing site.

To register, go to Convergence Registration.

CWR Mobility will be attending again this year! We will be launching 2 great new products:

• CWR Mobile CRM 4.1
  The latest release of our Mobile client for Dynamics CRM 4.0
• CWR Mobile CRM Online
  Our mobile client is now available as a hosted service for Dynamics CRM Online. More info can be found at CWR Mobile CRM Online

To learn more about our products, please visit our booth: 1227

I am really looking forward to meet new prospects, existing customers, our partners, and many of our friends again this year!

CRM 2009 Forecast

Paul Greenberg, well-known CRM analyst and author of the best-selling book "CRM at the Speed of Light" did his yearly CRM forecast a few weeks ago. First he looked back at his forecast for 2008 and then he does a three-part (well 2.1 part) forecast for 2009 (part 1, part 2 and part 2.1).

I was happy to see that Mobile CRM is his number one forecast for 2009. I quote:

Mobile CRM will be in increasing demand by sales organizations in particular -
and vendors will continue to invest in it, downturn or not.

And I was happily surprised to see that the following sentence in his article linked to our website :)

the commitment of Microsoft partners
to build Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Windows Mobile solutions.

In addition to Paul Greenberg, Inside CRM also has a Top 5 CRM predictions for 2009, and guess what? Mobile CRM is again number 1!

Mobile is the New Hosted – Mobile CRM will rise beyond a “useful”
technology for sophisticated users to a pervasive application that transcends
throughout field and service workers, and even into the trades and labor
workforce.

Reading these predictions sets some high expectations for 2009 :).

Indeed, 2008 has been a great year and 2009 will be an even more exciting year for us! With a new release 4.1 of our CWR Mobile CRM solution coming soon that will set the bar even higher for Windows Mobile CRM solutions!

Talking about Mobile being the new Hosted, we recently released CWR Mobile CRM for CRM Online as a beta and you can still sign up for free during this beta period.

But there's more to come in 2009...

That being said, on behalf of CWR Mobility I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and all the best for 2009!

CWR Mobile CRM Online (beta) free trial

We are happy to announce the public availability of CWR Mobile CRM Online.

At this stage we operate CWR Mobile CRM Online in a beta stage. Therefore we offer our service for free to all users that have registered on our website and applied for a trial license.

This beta program will run until the end of February 2009.

During the trial period, we may be contacting you about our service and we would appreciate your honest feedback so that we can improve the service for your benefit.

At the end of the trial period, we will inform you on how you can continue the service. If we receive no response, we will automatically cancel your service after the trial period.

To sign up for the trial period, please visit http://online.cwrmobility.com and click on 'Try Now'.

We are looking forward to welcoming you as our new (beta) customer.

Visit us at Convergence EMEA 2008

For the third year in a row, we will be attending Convergence EMEA.

This year (as well as last year) it will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

If you are interested in learning about our latest releases, or if you just want to connect, the please come by our booth in the Expo hall. Our booth number is E31.

Looking forward to meeting you there!

PDC 2008, here I come!

PDC 2008 will be held in Los Angeles from 27 to 30 October and I'm lucky enough to attend. I'm really looking forward to 4 days packed with sessions about the latest and future technologies, including a preview of Windows 7!

You name it, they have it, CRM, Cloud Services, Windows Mobile, Silverlight for Mobile and much, much more. This is developer's heaven :).

Are you going to PDC? Drop me a line so we can hook up. Also, any tips about what to do in the LA area are appreciated. I've never been to LA, so I'm hoping to get some time for sight seeing (although it's going to be difficult with so many great sessions...).