The New User Interface, Dashboards, and Charts

If you are familiar with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, the first thing you will notice when you access Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is that the user interface (UI) has changed. The grumblings from the field about tabs and too many clicks created change from the extremely responsive development team. The appearance of the UI has flattened. In addition, user-definable charts and dashboards have been added. Now although it has been flattened and looks a bit different, the concept of sections within a form still applies. It is not that different from the old version, just different enough to streamline data entry.

Now to get started we are going to look at the new Get Started pane that has been added to ...

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