CRM · Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Your pipeline should not live in your salespeople’s heads

When sales information is scattered across spreadsheets, email and memory, the sales forecast is an opinion and one departure takes the customer relationship with it. Dynamics 365 Sales turns the sales process into information leadership can actually use.

Who it is for

Who this is for

For sales and general management who need a reliable forecast, a repeatable sales process and customer relationships that outlast the people who own them. CRM stands for customer relationship management: the system where the full history of every account lives, not just the invoiced order.

Signs you need it

  • The sales forecast is built from whatever each rep declares, with no evidence behind it.
  • When a salesperson leaves the company, their customer information walks out with them.
  • You do not know how many opportunities are open, which stage they are in or how long they have been stuck.
  • Every rep follows their own method, and results cannot be compared or replicated.
  • The sales team cannot see credit status, inventory or billing history for the customer they are selling to.
  • You tried to roll out a CRM before and the team stopped using it within a few months.

Problems it solves

A sales forecast with nothing behind it
Without defined stages, advancement criteria and committed dates, the forecast is a sum of hunches. Leadership plans production, purchasing and cash flow on a number nobody can support.
The customer relationship belongs to the person, not the company
Conversations, agreements and objections live in personal inboxes and notebooks. When the rep changes, the customer explains their story from scratch and the company loses ground.
Opportunities that go cold with nobody noticing
Without alerts or structured follow-up, opportunities stall quietly. The cost never shows up in a report because it was never recorded that they existed.
Sales and operations disconnected
The sales team promises delivery dates without seeing inventory, sells to customers with past-due balances, and the order gets keyed into the ERP a second time. Every disconnect is paid for in rework and in credibility with the customer.
A process you cannot teach
If every rep works their own way, bringing someone new on board depends on them learning by watching. A process defined inside the system shortens the learning curve and makes performance comparable.
A CRM the team abandons
When the system only serves management control and gives nothing back to the rep, records get filled in at the last minute and the data stops being useful. Adoption is designed, not mandated.

Capabilities by process

Customers and contacts

  • Accounts, contacts and the customer’s organizational structure
  • Full history of interactions, emails and meetings
  • Segmentation by industry, size, territory or behavior
  • Account context available before every conversation

Prospecting and opportunities

  • Lead capture and qualification
  • Conversion to opportunity using defined criteria
  • Sales process stages with advancement conditions
  • Competitors, objections and loss reasons on record
  • Opportunity prioritization based on buying signals

Sales process and quoting

  • Product catalog, price lists and discounts
  • Quotes, orders and approval of commercial exceptions
  • A guided flow that shows the recommended next action
  • Order handoff to the ERP without re-entering it

Forecast and pipeline

  • Forecast by rep, team, territory and period
  • Funnel by stage, with age and probability
  • Targets and attainment tracking
  • Executive dashboards in Power BI over CRM data

Seller productivity

  • Working from Outlook and Excel without switching tools
  • Tracking of opens and engagement on the emails you send
  • Activity sequences and automatic reminders
  • A mobile app with access to customer information out in the field
  • Offline work with later synchronization

Intelligence and Copilot

  • Account and opportunity summaries ahead of the meeting
  • Assisted drafting of follow-up emails
  • Next best action recommendations
  • Alerts on opportunities at risk due to inactivity

Configuration and governance

  • Adapting the sales process without development, using a visual editor
  • Permissions by territory, team and hierarchy
  • Duplicate detection and data quality rules
  • Change auditing on accounts and opportunities

Outcomes and KPIs

A forecast you can defend

With stages, criteria and recorded activity, the forecast stops being an opinion and gains evidence behind it. The improvement is measured by comparing forecast against actual closings over several periods.

Suggested indicators

  • Variance between forecast and actual closings
  • Pipeline value by stage
  • Average age of open opportunities
  • Conversion rate by stage

Relationships that belong to the company

The history of every account stays in the system. A change on the sales team stops meaning you start over with the customer.

Suggested indicators

  • Accounts with interaction history on record
  • Ramp-up time for a new salesperson
  • Active customers per rep

A shorter, more orderly sales cycle

The guided process and the reminders cut the dead time between stages, which is where most opportunities are lost.

Suggested indicators

  • Sales cycle length
  • Opportunities with no activity within the defined window
  • Response time to a new lead

Sales connected to the operation

The rep sees credit, inventory and history before making a commitment, and the order reaches the ERP without being re-entered. Fewer impossible promises get made and invoicing happens sooner.

Suggested indicators

  • Orders requiring later correction
  • Time between closing and invoicing
  • Sales to customers with past-due balances

How BETABOX works

  1. Sales process assessment

    We review how your company sells today, which stages actually exist and what information leadership needs in order to decide. The initial assessment is 100% free.

  2. Design the process before the tool

    We define stages, advancement criteria, assignment rules and what a salesperson is required to record. A CRM that copies today’s disorder does not change the outcome.

  3. Configuration and integration

    We configure the process in Dynamics 365 Sales, connect it to Outlook and Teams, and integrate it with Business Central or your ERP so customers, prices and inventory are shared.

  4. Migration of sales information

    We consolidate customers, contacts and opportunities scattered across spreadsheets and email, clean up duplicates and establish the data quality rules.

  5. Adoption centered on the salesperson

    We train by showing what the user gains: less administrative work, better context ahead of every meeting and follow-up that does not rely on memory. It is the only way the records stay current.

  6. Measurement and adjustment

    We review the indicators agreed with sales leadership and tune the process. A CRM without periodic review degrades within months.

Integrations

  • Dynamics 365 Business Central: customers, products, prices, inventory and orders
  • Microsoft 365: Outlook, Teams, Excel and SharePoint
  • Power BI for executive sales dashboards
  • Power Automate for discount approvals and alerts
  • Copilot for summaries and assisted drafting
  • Dynamics 365 Customer Service for continuity between the sale and after-sales
  • Websites and capture forms through lead integration
  • Third-party systems through APIs and standard connectors

Security, governance and local adaptation

Access to sales information
Permissions by territory, team and hierarchy: each person sees what belongs to them. Customer information is a company asset and is managed as one.
Data quality
Duplicate rules, mandatory fields by stage and periodic cleanup. A CRM with dirty data produces dirty forecasts.
Personal data protection
We define retention, consent and processing policies for the contact data your company records. The legal requirements that apply in each country are validated with your legal counsel.
Platform security
Identity with Microsoft Entra ID, a second factor, audit logging and the security controls of the Microsoft cloud that Dynamics 365 runs on.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales?
It is Microsoft’s CRM application for sales teams. It manages leads, opportunities, quotes, forecasting and sales activity, with native integration to Outlook, Excel, Teams and the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem.
How is it different from the CRM included in Business Central?
Business Central includes contact, opportunity and campaign management, which is enough for a small sales team with a simple process. Dynamics 365 Sales adds a guided process, structured forecasting, activity sequences and intelligence capabilities. During the assessment we evaluate which one fits your operation.
Does it integrate with our ERP?
Yes. With Business Central the integration is native and shares customers, products, prices, inventory and orders. With other systems we handle it through APIs or integration services, defining what information is shared and in which direction.
How do we get the sales team to actually use it?
By designing what gets recorded around what helps the salesperson, not only around what management wants to see: customer context before the meeting, automatic follow-up and less administrative work. And by limiting what is mandatory to what is genuinely used to decide.
Can we try it before deciding?
Microsoft offers trial versions of the product, and we can prepare an environment with your process and a sample of your data so the team sees it in their own context. We confirm the terms of the trial that apply at the time you request it.
How much do the licenses cost?
Microsoft offers several license tiers with different automation, intelligence and customization capabilities. Price depends on the tier, the number of users and the terms currently available in your country: we prepare a quote with the mix that matches your operation.
Does it include Copilot?
Dynamics 365 Sales includes Copilot capabilities to summarize accounts and opportunities, draft follow-up and suggest the next action. Availability depends on the license tier you contract, and we review it with you when we define the licensing.
Does it work for teams that operate outside the office?
Yes. The mobile app lets them look up customer information, log the visit and update the opportunity from a phone or tablet, even without a connection, syncing once the signal is back.

What evidence backs your sales forecast today?

Request a sales process assessment. We review how your company sells, what information is missing to decide, and how to put it in order. The initial assessment is 100% free.

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