The first of three accelerators (Analytics R1 for Microsoft CRM 4.0) was released on Codeplex on Monday, the dashboards and SQL server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube are for 2005. As usual the Microsoft team have inculded all of the relevant documentation at which I have taken the liberty of using a few screen shots.

Future releaseas look to be very exciting in particular the more advanced features coming out in R3

Release 2 (R2) includes:

·         SQL Server 2008 Dashboard reports

·         Simple SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS) cube

·         Sales Pipeline trending analysis example (SQL 2005 & 2008)

Release 3 (R3) includes:

·         Enhanced SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube (SQL Server 2005 AND 2008)

·         Embedded data mining applications

·         Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server scorecards

·         Security synchronization plugin (and source code) to replicate the Microsoft Dynamics CRM security model to the enhanced SSAS cubes