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Certified for Microsoft Dynamics®
Customer Evidences
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The purpose of customer evidences is to grow trust in your solution among customer prospects, showing that your solution has already been used and recommended by others.
CfMD Requirement: Your solution needs to have 10 customer evidences for ERP and 8 for CRM solutions to fulfill the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD) requirements. The 10 ERP CfMD evidences need to come from at least 6 unique customers (i.e. 6 different installations, with references provided by 6 different people). The 8 CRM evidences need to come from at least 4 unique customers (i.e. 4 different installations with references coming from 4 different people). You have several choices to fulfill this requirement (see table below). You can get more than one evidence from the same customer if you use different evidence types, as long as they come from the minimum number of installations. For example, you can get a Public Microsoft Reference and a Confidential Reference from the same customer. Or you can get a Confidential Reference and a Case Study from the same customer. Fewer than the required valid customer evidences mean that the solution cannot pass the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics validation.
Submission: Please submit the customer evidences to VeriTest (msdynamics@veritest.com), Microsoft's independent third-party vendor for validation on the Validation Checklist, including the types of evidences your customers belong to (see table below). The customer evidences will only be accepted for the CfMD process, once customers have replied back to the VeriTest validation team. You can speed up your certification process by asking verbal permission from your customers prior to submission and following up with them to make sure they have replied to the validation e-mails.
More details about each type of evidence (please read to be familiar with all the criteria)
Choices of Customer Evidences for CfMD
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Public Microsoft References
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Confidential References
Confidential Confidential
Microsoft VeriTest References References
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Case Studies
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Executive Nominations |
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Highlights |
* To share your success
* To network with partners |
* No * No
networking networking
opportunity opportunity
*Impacts * No
Solution Finder impact on
ranking and Solution Finder
country ranking
availability in
catalog |
Posted on microsoft.com |
From a Microsoft Director |
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When to choose this option? |
* When you want to raise awareness of your accomplishments.
* Especially when you have fewer than 10 customers
* Only for customers with 100+ employees |
* If you are * If you are
a directly a indirectly
selling ISV selling ISV,
working with
resellers
* When you * When you
already have want to keep
references your
entered into customers'
your data Solution Profile. confidential &
need new
references. |
When you already have a case study posted that meet the criteria listed below. |
When you don't have enough references & have built a good relationship at Microsoft. |
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Get started |
Click on the Dynamics Customer Reference Nomination Form & also list them on the Validation Checklist. |
* List them * List them
on the on the
Validation Validation
Checklist. Checklist.
* VeriTest * VeriTest
will validate. will validate. |
* List existing links on the Validation Checklist.
* VeriTest will validate. |
* List them on the Validation Checklist.
* VeriTest will validate.
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Maximum number allowed |
10 for ERP, 8 for CRM |
10 for ERP, 10 for ERP,
8 for CRM 8 for CRM |
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