Posted under News & Pivotal CRM 6 - Sedna
The project Pivotal CRM Sedna has reached next milestone - Drop 4. Due to that, the webcasts have just started. Below, you can find brand new info about a new generation of the platform.
A date of releasing of Sedna has change - nowadays reaching a state of “General Availability” is scheduled for the turn of February 2008. In the October 2007, the beta program for invited customers and partners is going to start. Lots of things can be told already about a new interface, that has been presented at the webcast. A new proposal seems to be more ergonomic and user friendly. According to announcements, interface focuses on leading a business process, independently from a data structure and business objects.
There has been also presented an integration of Pivotal system with MS Outlook. All contacts from Pivotal system can be projected from the level of Outlook’s address book. Similar is the functioning of calendar, which replaces the one known from Pivotal CRM. The forms themselves look interesting - currently they resemble those known from Windows Access procedure and they are shown in a browser. It makes customization GUI much more easier then in Active Access procedure.
During the webcast there has been also presented a way of system’s customization. A main customization will still take place in a Toolkit of Windows Access procedure. A lot of new objects which enable using new functions of the platform have been added.
A main change is related to form’s adaptation - in Sedna it will be held in Visual Studio. Thanks to that we will gain an influence on lots of
form’s properties, which wasn’t possible before. A preparation of different language versions will become much more easier, because it will be basing at the properties and not on hitherto LD Strings.
I have to say that the presentation of Drop 4’s results makes me optimistic and whet my appetite. New generation of Pivotal CRM promises to be a revelation!
