Pythagoras named in 2010 Microsoft Dynamics Presidents Club

The 12th of July 2010 was a day of celebration throughout Pythagoras' offices in the UK; this was the day we achieved recognition for our outstanding dedication to customer satisfaction through the delivery of our innovative business solutions.

The prestigious Microsoft Presidents Club represents the top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics partners world wide; gaining entry into this elite group demonstrates our continual development and growth, and commitment to building on our successes year upon year. Doug Kennedy, vice president of Microsoft Dynamics Partners stated, "Microsoft is proud to recognise Pythagoras Communications for its outstanding sales achievement, this honour is a direct reflection of Pythagoras' outstanding group of employees and management team, all of whom should be very proud of this accomplishment. Pythagoras plays a very important role in the growth and success of Microsoft Dynamics."

Our Managing Director returned from Washington D.C. on Monday after accepting the acknowledgement and spending the week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).

Our official press release regarding the 2010 Presidents Club is available to view online here.

This week also See's the 1st Phase of our new website go live; with further improvements and updates to the existing pages over the coming weeks we believe the online environment for new and existing customers to learn about our expertise, solutions and professional serviceswill be second to none. View the website now at www.pythagoras.co.uk

Microsoft CRM for Media

Pythagoras, a leading UK Microsoft Gold Partner today looks at Microsoft CRM for Manufacturing, outlining the key benefits their customised CRM can bring to the Media industry.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM allows Media companies to strive for success by enabling them to better service the needs of their customers, allowing a more effective audience profiling, deeper relationships with advertisers as well as the ability to track complex interactions with client licensees and content providers.

Working as the natural extension of Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft CRM 4.0 drives user adoption levels thanks to the familiar user interface; the solution also helps eliminate manual data entry, significantly reducing errors.
Pythagoras outline below the benefits Microsoft CRM 4.0 brings for key areas of Media Organisations:

Advertising

• Improve efficiency and gain more time with clients by automating administrative tasks.
• Repetitive processes such as service requests and order confirmations are vastly improved.
• Greater insights into your client’s advertising needs are gained allowing better, more customised offerings.

Broadcasting

• Maximise cross selling and up selling across formats.
• Support cross channel advertising campaigns.
• Enhanced customer profiling, allowing more effective targeting.
• Track and share information and interactions with content providers.

Publishing

• Deliver better service through a 360 degree view of customers and their needs.
• Improve your ability to negotiate with distributors.
• Profile for and track the typically complex interactions with content licensees.
• Manage interactions with authors, spokespeople and others more efficiently.

Studios / Post Production
• Deliver consistent, high-quality service in all your client interactions.
• Speed up repetitive processes such as service requests and order confirmations, and respond quickly to unforeseen demands.

Founded in 1999 Pythagoras is a company that is experienced in providing Microsoft xRM (Anything Relationship Management) and Microsoft CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Accounts and integrated business solutions for businesses across a broad range of industries and products. Pythagoras is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Gold Partner with offices in London, Maidenhead and Manchester.

Pythagoras reflects on the Technology for Marketing and Advertising Exhibition (TFM&A) 2010

Pythagoras' experts showcased Microsoft Dynamics CRM on February 23 and 24, attracting vast interest across all our vertical sectors. Visitors to our stand understood the benefits Microsoft Dynamics CRM can bring to their organisation along with the added value of Pythagoras’ customisation and industry expertise.

Visitors also realised the great advantages of Microsoft Dynamics CRM over their current systems with the clear efficiency and productivity gains evident from the various work flow and the seamless integration with Microsoft Office® being initial stand out features desired.

Our Microsoft CRM experts were also on hand throughout to answer questions and enlighten visitors with troubleshooting advice and tips on how to improve their Microsoft Dynamics CRM experience.

If you were unable to attend the TFM&A Exhibition this year our experts are available to discuss your individual requirements and to give demonstrations of the capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Furthermore, a brief outline of just some of the advantages Microsoft Dynamics CRM brings to the 8 verticals in which we showcased can be seen below:

Membership Software
• Highly configurable membership system for your individual business needs while also extending the reach of Outlook by turning it into a effective tool for customer relationship
• Membership software reporting and business intelligence has reached a new level of importance

NHS and Healthcare
• Improved Stakeholder Relationship Management (SRM)
• Proactively manage patients, improving productivity

Not for Profit
• Improved targeting of areas and customers with full profiling and segmentation of data
• Full membership and fundraising features

Insurance
• Comprehensive organisation, contact, and deal tracking to enable you to see everything about your customer, improve relationships and ultimately customer retention.
• Workflow and Process automation that will automate key business processes in the business

Media
• Profile your audiences more effectively
• Develop deeper relationships with advertisers and track complex interactions with content licensees and content providers

Education
• Improves full student lifecycle management, from recruitment to alumni and beyond
• Improves communication across internal departments and externally, enhancing the ability to manage teacher progress and build consistent external relationships with key stakeholders

Manufacturing
• Gain insight and provide channel partners the information and tools they need to drive demand for your products
• Shorten the sales cycle by effectively managing and assessing opportunities in your sales pipeline

High Technology Organisations
-Drives innovation and success through accurate understanding of products and trends and enabling manufacturers to fully maximise internal and external communication channels between the likes of marketing teams, customers, suppliers and manufacturing departments.

Pythagoras has been a Microsoft Gold Partner since 2008 with over 60 staff on hand to help provide solutions and support for your individual needs. Based out of Maidenhead, Berkshire with offices located in central London near Trafalgar Square Pythagoras Communications has the enviable success and experience desired by those looking for a customisable CRM solution.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Common Solutions

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is helping businesses from various verticals from Insurance to Manufacturing across the globe to provide more streamlined services, workflows, marketing campaigns and overall organisation efficiency to name just a few benefits.

With over 1 million users of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Pythagoras Communications, a UK leading Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions provider and Microsoft Gold Partner has enviable experience in deploying Microsoft CRM solutions as well as providing exceptional support to our customers. recognises potential sticking points and below provides solution options to a three common issues.

When you open an upgraded workflow in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, you receive the following error message: “Specified argument was out of the range of valid values”

This problem usually occurs if the effective date is set pre 1900; check this date/time value in the individual work flow.

The upgraded workflow rules fail when run on new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Web servers

One cause of this problem could be that the Microsoft .NET assemblies are not present on the additional Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web servers. This problem could be resolved by copying and then registering the Microsoft .NET assemblies on the additional Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Web servers.

After you upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, the "Check activities" workflow condition does not work

To work around this problem after you upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, delete the "Check activities" condition in the workflow. Then, include either the Activity Count condition or the "Activity Count including Workflow" condition.

Pythagoras Communications has recently successfully showcased Microsoft Dynamics CRM at the 2010 Technology for Advertising and Marketing; our experts understand the requirements for all industry sectors and can provide your business with the information and demonstration on the values. Our industry experience and exceptional support team can drive your business forward to the next level.

For more information on Microsoft Dynamics CRM please visit http://www.pythagoras.co.uk/microsoft_crm.aspx, call 01628 519000 or email sales@pythagoras.co.uk.

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Outline of Microsoft Dynamics CRM's Integration with Microsoft Office Software

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is quickly becoming the most popular new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software package globally. Pythagoras Communications, a Microsoft Gold Partner and leading UK Microsoft CRM solutions provider outlines the importance of integration within your existing Microsoft infrastructure in making Microsoft Dynamics CRM a popular solution with now well over 1 million users.

The integration with Outlook and aspects of the Microsoft software portfolio such as Excel and Word allow users from various departments to be only a few clicks away from the relevant information they require. The powerful integration with Outlook allows for powerful email, contact and marketing capabilities as well as the ability to track conversation history update records and create subsequent workflows and appointments in relevant peoples diaries from emails stored in the CRM system.

Microsoft CRM’s tight integration with Word allows users to the ability to create and print mail merge documents quickly and easily thanks to the direct link to contacts located within the CRM software. Furthermore Microsoft Dynamics CRM gives the user the ability to edit contacts preferences regarding what they receive, for example if a contact opts out of receiving marketing letters the system will automatically recognise this and not print one for the relevant contact, ensuring your relationships with clients are kept healthy.

Microsoft Excel allows users of Microsoft CRM the ability to create reports and export contact lists with just a click of a button. The ability to create dynamics pivot tables through the integration from excel means the user will save time usually spent on manually updating the contents.
These examples are just scratching the surface of the power the integration Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides, further information can be found on our website

About Pythagoras
Pythagoras is a company that is experienced in providing Microsoft xRM (Anything Relationship Management) and Microsoft CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Accounts and integrated business solutions for businesses across a broad range of industries and products. Pythagoras is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Gold Partner with offices in London, Maidenhead and Manchester.

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Microsoft xRM - A brief guide

The modern businesses of today require the ability to manage everything, not only customer relations. Microsoft xRM (the natural evolution from CRM) provides businesses with this ability. Microsoft xRM provides your business with valuable information on Microsoft CRM, the .NET platform, and to show you how they can best be leveraged in the day-to-day running of your business.

The Benefits

Microsoft xRM offers one platform with many applications and in the box entities that are useable immediately such as:
• Employee Management
• Recruit Management
• Trade Management
• Property Management
• Agency Management
• Vendor Management
• Real Estate Finance

Further benefits of Microsoft xRM

Because xRM works with recognised technologies such as the Microsoft® Office system, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, Microsoft SQL Server®, Microsoft Visual Studio®, and Microsoft .NET Framework, you can create and manage many line-of business (LOB) applications using common licenses, and resources.

Improvement of IT Efficiency
Streamline your IT operations through a common LOB application platform that allows you to maximise your resources and reduce time and effort associated with development, testing, release management, change management, and administration.

Increased ability to adapt and innovate
• The ability to adapt when the market changes thanks to dynamic applications and highly flexible data architecture.
• Spend fewer resources on the development of custom applications so your business can focus on prestigious high end goals.

Increased productivity and business decisions
• Allow your IT to be the cornerstone of your differentiation by constantly delivering outstanding capabilities.
• Increase potential productivity by providing the end user with unified and familiar tools such as Microsoft Office to do their job.
• Inform decision makers by utilising the ability of differing LOB applications keeping them better informed of business processes and performance.

Furthermore, Microsoft xRM is built upon Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the familiar software that fits with your systems and enables your staff to unleash sales, marketing, service potential, and much more. With many businesses striving to gain an advantage over the competition Microsoft xRM provides an inexpensive and fast way to take your Microsoft Dynamics CRM to the next level.

Pythagoras is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner who can help you customise your Microsoft CRM solution even if you need integration with third-party applications. Call us on 0845 850 1550 if you would like to discuss your requirements, or email us at info@pythagoras.co.uk.

Pythagoras acquires market share for Microsoft Dynamics CRM in major sector.

Microsoft CRM specialist Pythagoras gains further market share in the CRM Education marketplace.

London, United Kingdom. (10 September 2009) – Pythagoras, a leading UK-based Microsoft Dynamics CRM Gold Partner, has successfully expanded its market share of CRM for the Education Sector, with impressive announcements of two additional Higher Education establishments, City University and the University of Essex, going live with Microsoft CRM.

Julian Stone, Managing Director at Pythagoras commented, “Gaining further market share in the Higher Education market place is a great accomplishment for Pythagoras. Together with our Gold Partner Status, this not only proves that we have excessive levels of expertise surrounding Microsoft products but also a comprehensive understanding of the Education market place.”

Pythagoras has recently documented an increased interest from the Education Sector. The pressure on Educational organisations to perform with the efficiency of businesses appears to be emerging. Microsoft CRM for Education brings commercial effectiveness to the Education Sector for Colleges, Universities, Schools and other Educational establishments.

A customer relationship management (CRM) solution enables the user to build closer relationships with students, tutors and lecturers. In providing assistance in improving student recruitment and retention rates, and by combining data sets, there is a significant decrease on administrative burden. This solution combined with all the usual features of Microsoft CRM creates a cost-effective, useful and flexible system.


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