Azure Text Analytics sentiment analysis with North52

For the last several months I've been working on an enterprise Dynamics CRM project where one of our goals is to minimize the amount of custom code we write by using North52's Business Process Activities. I had not been exposed to North52 before working on this project, but I have »

Predictions in Dynamics CRM with custom Azure Machine Learning integrations

Earlier this year I wrote a post that showed how to perform sentiment analysis in Dynamics CRM using Microsoft Azure Text Analytics. Azure Text Analytics makes it incredibly easy to use sentiment analysis (with English text only), but the full Azure Machine Learning offering is much more powerful. In today's »

Sentiment analysis in Dynamics CRM using Azure Text Analytics

Last year I created a proof-of-concept solution that showed how to integrate Dynamics CRM with HP Haven OnDemand (then called HP IDOL OnDemand) to perform sentiment analysis and index records to support "find similar" queries. While I was working through the AzureCon challenge a few weeks ago, I »

Custom identity class to represent Dynamics CRM users in WCF services

A few weeks ago I wrote a post called "Custom WCF service authentication using Microsoft Dynamics CRM credentials" in which I showed how to secure Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services using Dynamics CRM usernames and passwords. In that post, I used a GenericIdentity object to store the »

Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper Now on GitHub

Last week I wrote a post called "Introducing the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper," in which I presented a generic WCF wrapper for the Dynamics CRM Organization Service. Almost immediately I had several ideas about updates I wanted to make, so I've decided to host the project on GitHub. »