WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administrationinvestigators have found rodents, seeping manure and maggots at theIowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500cases of salmonella poisoning.

 FDA officials released their initial observations of theinvestigations at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms on Monday.The two farms recalled more than half a billion eggs aftersalmonella illnesses were linked to their products earlier thismonth.

 The reports released by the FDA show many different possiblesources of contamination at both farms, including rodent, bug andwild bird infestation, uncontained manure, holes in walls and otherproblems that could have caused the outbreak. Positive samples ofsalmonella linked to the outbreak have been found at bothfarms.

 Officials said they still cannot speculate on how the eggs werecontaminated. But they said the farms not only violated their ownstandards but also new egg rules put in place this summer.

  in a statement, unidentified officials of Wright County Egg saidthey are working ‘‘around the clock’’ to address FDA’s concerns andsome deficiencies have already been fixed.

 ‘‘To date, the vast majority of the concerns identified in the FDAreport already have been addressed through repairs or othercorrective measures,’’ the company said in the statement. ‘‘Weanticipate the expeditious completion of nearly all remaining itemsby mid-September.’’

 Hillandale Farms released a similar statement, saying some of theissues had already been identified by the company.

 Animal feces and access to wildlife are normally the main concernof investigators looking for causes of an outbreak. Illnesses suchas salmonella originate from feces.

 Michael Taylor, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods, saidMonday that the agency cannot say how these conditions compare toother egg farms around the country, but he believes they are‘‘significant deviations from what is expected.’’

 The agency has not traditionally inspected egg farms until therehas been a problem. The FDA has said it has not inspected either ofthe two Iowa farms, even though the owners of Wright County Egghave a long history of health, safety, environmental andimmigration violations.

 The FDA will now inspect all of the nation’s largest farms by theend of next year, the Obama administration announced lastweek.

 No deaths have been reported due to the outbreak, but the numberof illnesses, which can be life-threatening, especially to thosewith weakened immune systems, is expected to increase.

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Microsoft ahead of Competition in Dynamic CustomerRelationship ManagementMicrosoft Dynamics CrmLeads the Way According to Gartner and Forrester WaveResearch

Recent reports from both Forrester andGartner reveal that Microsoft Dynamics CRM is ahead of thecompetition in customer relationship management (CRM) formid- to large sized organisations.

Gartner’s latestMagic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation report positionsMicrosoft Dynamics CRM as the leader in the field,identifying factors such as its ability to integrate withother Microsoft products, its ability to create customisedsolutions using the xRM framework and Microsoft’sextensive partner network as key strengths.

The reportevaluated 15 leading CRM suite solutions includingSalesforce.com, Oracle Siebel and SAP CRM against a range ofcriteria, including product and service, sales execution,pricing, customer experience, operations, offering strategy,business model, innovation and geographic strategy.

The Gartner report follows on from the recent ForresterWave report which also identified Dynamics CRM as the leaderin CRM solutions and further cements its position in thecategory.

“It is an honour to be recognised as a leaderin the CRM industry that is helping customers seize newopportunities and grow their businesses,” says StewartGibbs, Manager – Microsoft Dynamics for Microsoft NewZealand.

“We deliver innovation and value to companiesin new Zealand and around the world by focusing on end-userproductivity, business process flexibility and agility, andthe ability of our customers to leverage cloud deploymentmodels.”

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a fully integratedCRM solution comprised of a robust suite of tools andcapabilities which creates and maintains a clear picture ofany business relationship, from first contact through topurchase, post-sales and service. With a raft of featuresand associated scalability, the software can be customisedto fit any organisation – large or small.

“Ourcustomers have reported a number of benefits from DynamicsCRM, such as having the ability to identify and retain theirmost profitable customers, and being able to better targetand manage their growing customer and sales disciplinesaround sales, service and marketing, while benefiting from acustom line of business applications built on the CRMplatform,” says Stewart.

Both Gartner and Forresterreports found companies are starting to invest again intheir CRM capabilities, something that was on hold duringthe economic downturn. Intergen works with a range ofbusinesses and Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM has become avaluable tool in its CRM toolbox, offering clientsperformance and flexibility to better manage their customerinteractions.

“CRM is one the fastest growing areas ofour business. Customers are really starting to see how a CRMsolution, both in its pure form but also in a tailored form,can help their businesses manage relationships of all types.The diverse application of Dynamics CRM is exciting to see– from organisations using the application to managetypical customer sales relationships through to managingtraining programmes for apprentices, and even managing theheritage and location of guide dogs. Things have certainlymatured since the days of failed large scale CRMimplementations. Now customers are seeing fast ROI andbenefits realisation from a more agile platform. It’sgreat to see what can be achieved,” says Simon bright,Intergen’s Chief Operating Officer.

As businessconsultants devoted to accelerating business growth anddriving wealth creation in small and large businesses, TheICEHOUSE requires in-depth knowledge of all its customers.Microsoft Dynamics CRM has allowed the company to manage andtrack internal resources, and maintain high qualityinteractions with customers.

“Our old system was rigidand expensive to maintain, so we needed a new solution thatwas customisable and cost effective,” says Mariko King,The ICEHOUSE’s Office Manager. “The Microsoft DynamicsCRM has given us flexibility to better manage our data, andhas helped reduce costs while improving efficiency andenhancing our customer relationships.”

Both reportsalso found that large and mid-sized organisations have manytechnology options to sift through – Microsoft DynamicsCRM was one of the solutions to receive high marks for easeof use and relatively fast deployment times. The Forresterreport further states, “Microsoft owns a Software as aService (SaaS) solution, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, andbuyers value the solution’s native integration withOutlook and being able to work within the familiar Microsofttechnology stack. Buyers also like Microsoft DynamicsCRM’s usability, lower price and its quick time to valuecompared with traditional CRM applications.”

MicrosoftDynamics CRM 2011 will be launched early next year as bothan on-premise and online offering from Microsoft, meaningbusinesses will be able to access CRM through the cloud,giving customers even greater choice. Today, Microsoft isthe only company that offers customers the power of choice,with their CRM product available on-premise, through partnerhosting and online.

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This old chestnut cropped in up one of my projects recently – is an often requirement to replace the free-text MSCRM Country field with a drop-down list such that users can select a particular country and so avoid incorrect/ambiguous typing that makes reporting and analytics’s difficult. (England/UK/Britain being a good example where the same real-world value could be accidently separated in reports)

Changing this behaviour in MSCRM can be tricky as this is a change to the fundamental Address Handling behaviour in MSCRM – such that several places in MSCRM must be customised to support the requirement. As such I would usually try and steer clients away from this requirement due to weighting up the customisation required versus the benefits, as incorrect typing can easily be corrected as a manual process via Bulk Updates.

However this can still be a useful option for improving the User Experience for users of a CRM Solution in certain incidences, and so this post aims to describe how this drop-down Country selection can be implemented in MSCRM with reference to populating longer sets of Picklist options on multiple entities in MSCRM and how this can be achieved without re-keying the full list for each entity.

1. create a Country Picklist and add this to the Account form

This field can then be added to the Account form alongside the existing current system field for Country.

2. Add a simple piece of onSave Javascript to copy the selected Country Picklist into the standard MSCRM Country field:

crmForm.all.address1_country.DataValue = crmForm.all.new_country.SelectedText;crmForm.all.address1_country.ForceSubmit = true;

3. Add a second simple piece of onLoad Javascript to hide the standard MSCRM Country field:

crmForm.all.address1_country_c.style.visibility = ‘hidden’;crmForm.all.address1_country_d.style.visibility = ‘hidden’;

4. Add the list of Country Picklist values, there is a great online tool provided by Mario Raunig’s blog on how to do this in a easier fashion than the normal method in MSCRM – particularly as we will often need to add this list of Countries for multiple entities (Lead, Account, Address etc) and that this XML Generator comes with a template for list of Countries.

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Using this tool, we can export the Entity XML in the usual fashion and unzip to then edit the XML file manually in Visual Studio – we can then run a find for the ‘new_country’ field that we created earlier:

We can then paste in the XML generated to populate our list of countries for the field.

Saving the XML and moving back into the ZIP file, we can import back into MSCRM to populate the list of countries into the ‘new_country’ picklist field. the entity can then be published to affect the drop-down.

NOTE: I believe MSCRM v5.0 will be incorporating the concept of System-wide Picklists where the same list can be used across multiple entities, this should limit the problem of recreating large picklists for multiple entities to keep the mappings between consistent. However in the meantime and for v4.0 solutions this process of pasting the Options list into the Entity XML is a useful technique.

5. the benefit of including the earlier Javascript to populate the standard MSCRM field for Country allows us to take advantage of any standard MSCRM Address behaviour without adding further additional Picklist fields. For example, when populating address details for an Order in MSCRM using the standard Address Lookup functionality:

This earlier form-scripting allows us to preserve this functionality without being forced to add additional customisation to cater for the new Country Drop-down field we have added.

Word of warning for this approach however, the population of the standard County field is being done via Client-side Java Scripting and so will not be populated in the same fashion for any Accounts created via Workflow or Data Migration.

This is a simple customisation but can (with some caveats) be useful for improving the CRM User Experience.

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