Auditing for MS CRM - At Last
In every demo of Microsoft CRM, when we are trying to differentiate it with other CRM vendors, we usually have BIG things to tell. But when the prospect asks in turn, “Show me how you audit transactions in your product..?” we take a short pause before answering. “Well we have Created Date, Modified Date for each record…..” (& embarrassment)
Now its no more, “Microsoft CRM Business DATA Auditing Accelerator” has used simple entities and workflows to create a good customizable auditing mechanism for MS CRM. To think that I used a custom plug-in to do this before :(
Here’s the Link to download:
http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=27404
Refer to the included installation guide which carries great information of applying the configurations and customizing the Auditing Capabilities.
Good News: Its a very very simple mechanism which allows even a novice in CRM to implement and Use
Bad News: All the field changes, status changes and Events that are selected for monitoring can create a big overhead in your SQL sever as these are published as triggers to the DB
Enjoy Auditing…