Thursday, January 10, 2019

How to integrate Angular with CRM



WHY CRM?

Today’s consumers are literally bombarded with all sorts of messages and offers that spring out from every corner.
Think about it for a minute, how many times per day do we receive promotional emails from a page you signed up for?
And more importantly, how often do you actually read it!! These days everyone is on social media, on blogs and anyone can comment, read or share.
We cannot go about a one size fits all approach, as these days customers have become more discerning and tech savvy. They are more aware of what they want and the array of options available to them. They demand personalized and diverse means of engaging with products and services.
Most marketers around the world believe that personalization of the web experience is most critical, 74% of respondents claim to get frustrated with websites when content, offers, ads and promotions appear to have nothing to do with their interests and this study results, paint a picture of a more eager consumer base than ever before.
 Not only do consumers get frustrated with irrelevant sites, they are also willing to leave the site completely.
Now, let’s address the elephant in the room, what could this possibly mean for today’s marketers?
This means that the need of the hour is Relevance. Today, we are talking about the rise of a highly individualized marketing approach, which is mainly driven by data and technology.
As a result, the ways marketers do their jobs and fulfill their main duty – to increase interest through a lead nurturing strategy and to multiply customer conversions – have changed.
And it is a CRM system that can help marketers to stay on top of the game.

WHY ANGULAR?

The days of cluttered websites, broken links and unresponsive websites are now a thing of the past. The time has come to embrace the modernization of web development through interactive, responsive and dynamic templates.
At a time when website development was as competitive as finding a needle in a haystack; everybody’s favorite search engine, Google developed Angularjs, an advanced framework created to make the front-end development process simplified.
If we have to get into the nitty-gritty of what makes Angular tick; Angular describes itself as a toolkit for enhancing HTML. It lets you extend HTML with a new vocabulary – in the form of directives – that turn a static HTML page into a dynamic template.
Directives can appear as attributes and tags and they turn static HTML pages into something that lives and breathes.
Angularjs is infused with a rich resource pool which makes it easy for professionals to create websites by writing minimum code. And since the integral parts of app code do not have any directives, it becomes easy for the teams working in parallel to manage them. Code writing mitigations means saving a lot of time and effort.
AngularJs operates on the client side; hence it is compatible with both; web and mobile browsers. It is also versatile, which means we can make front end development without making any backend manipulations.
The two way binding functionality of Angular JS is worth mentioning, as a part of it, any changes that happen in the application have an effect on the user-interface and vice versa. With AngularJs framework, the user actions and module changes happen simultaneously.
Apart from all the above, the hotspot of angularjs is its offer of modularity.  It enables the developers create multiple modules on a single application.  All these modules are either dependent or independent of each other, but one way or another they can be mapped together to work as a full fledged application.

WHY ANGULAR CRM integration?

Building great applications quickly is a key challenge to empower organization. There is something in Angular and Dynamics 365 that makes professional and business love it.
We believe it will be a fine grained mix of a perfect fit with the angular with beautiful look and user experience with number of unique features integrate with Dynamics 365.

How do we handle it? What are the challenges?

The major challenge is to move the angular project output to CRM

Angular developers use TypeScript, which allows developers to find bugs and mistakes earlier in the process. TypeScript also allows developers that are new to a codebase to more quickly get up to speed due to their ability to more quickly see the types of data moving through the application. Angular applications are broken into modules and components, and developers have the ability to import and export subparts of their application as needed. This is a very familiar mental model and also helps developers get up to speed more quickly, and it helps them architect their applications successfully.

Dynamics CRM accepts JavaScript as web resources for it processing.
Believe it or not, our biggest hurdle is debugging the code which is written in type script in CRM

Next challenge is to refer CRM client object modal in angular type script

Last challenge is simple; how do we utilize CRM services in Angular projects.

I am planning to have a series of posts related to this topics by including a POC project.

I believe, you are interested on this topic and could contribute to make the full framework, I really appreciate your subscription and contribution to this project.

We will detail below topics


How do we debug type script from CRM





How do we refer CRM client object from angular application

How do we call CRM service from angular application

How do we move Angular application to CRM