This post points to a whole host of useful information on the Business Data catalogue for Microsoft CRM.

The BDC is the mechanism that allows SharePoint to surface data from other applications, in this case Microsoft CRM.

I have not had a chance to work with this version, only the earlier demonstration version which had some limitations. When I get into it later in the month I will post more.

As part of my work to get deeper under the skin of what Microsoft Dynamics CRM can do I have been working through the videos and screen casts that are on Channel9.

This has in turn lead me to  Girish Raja’s Blog. If you are interested in how to take CRM into new directions then this is the place to go.

What I also wondered about was how these examples may be impacting on how the planning for Dynamics CRM 5 is going? Could we be seeing a WPF/Silverlight interface coming? No idea, but it would be a big WOW if they could get it working. Just look at what SalesCentric are doing.