Microsoft D365 Sales Flashcards
A _________ is an individual, or company hat receives, consumes, or buys a product or service.
The primary goal of a commercial enterprise is to attract ________ and maintain strong relationship with them over-time, by ensuring they want to continue to do business with your organization.
Customer
_______________ represents the emotional connection between a customer and a brand.
Customer engagement
is a low-code application development platform that not only spans Dynamics 365, but also Office 365, Azure, and standalone applications. It is where Dynamics 365’s customer engagement applications are built on.
Microsoft Power Platform
__________________ is a low-code application development platform that not only spans Dynamics 365, but also Office 365, Azure, and standalone applications. It is where Dynamics 365’s customer engagement applications are built on.
Microsoft Power Platform
True or False:
One of the key elements to building applications on Power Platform is Microsoft Dataverse
True
Benefits of leveraging Dataverse
- Easy to manage
- both the metadata and data are stored in cloud. - Easy to secure
- Data is securely stored so users can access what they need to. Role-based security allows you to control access to tables for different users within your organization. - Rich metadata
- Data types and relationships are used directly within Power Apps - Logic and validation
- Define calculated columns, business rules, workflows, and business process flows to ensure data quality and drive business processes. - Productivity tools
- Tables are available within the add-ins for Microsoft Excel to increase productivity and ensure data accessibility
Enumerate the five core Dynamics 365 customer engagement applications
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Enumerate the three ways organizations define customers
- Business to Business (B2B)
(e. g. telcom selling to hotels) - Business to Consumer (B2C)
(e. g. grocery stores) - Hybrid
(e. g. software vendors, event centers, insurance companies)
What are the primary records used in Dynamics 365
- Account
- Contact
This record represents a company or an organization that you do business with such as a customer, vendor, partner, or reseller.
Account
This record represents a person. It can be a standalone person, or an individual at an organization.
Contact
True or False:
While many accounts will be stand alone accounts, there are occasions where an account can be considered as the parent account to another account. This might occur when one account is a division or subsidiary of a parent company.
True
This contact represents a key person at the organization that you primarily deal with. This might be the person you deal as it relates to billing, sales, and so on.
Primary Contact
This helps keep track of customer communication.
Activities
True or False
Activities can only be associated with contacts and accounts.
False.
Depending on the Dynamics 365 applications you are using, they can also be associated with other types of records
e.g.
Sales - records like leads, opportunities, or quotes
Service - records like cases, work orders, or projects
Two most common searching tools
- Search a view (Quick Find)
- Multi table search (Categorized Search)
This searching tool is often referred to as Quick Find and is available on any Dynamics 365 View. You provide the first several letters of the item you are looking for, and the results will be returned directly in the view. For example, if you were looking at a list of active account records and entered the word Adventure into the search field, you would see all the account records that begin with Adventure.
Search a View
This searching tool is often referred to as Categorized Search. It searches across multiple tables that have been defined by the organization. In this instance, if you enter Adventure, and are presented with all accounts that begin with Adventure, you will also be provided with a list of any contacts who are associated with an account that begins with the word Adventure as well.
Multi table search
A __________ is a collection of products and services that an organization sells and provides to customers.
A typical __________ not only includes a list of the products that an organization sells but also defines different pricing options, such as retail and wholesale. It also details how a product will be sold.
Product Catalog
What are the four primary components of Dynamics 365 product catalog consists of four primary components
- Unit Groups
- defines how a product is packaged for sale - Products
- represent the type of product or service of a company - Price Lists
- sets of prices charged for the product - Discount Lists
- allow organizations to offer products or services at different prices depending upon the quantity purchased
Enumerate the most common integration options within Dynamics 365
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Power Apps - Canvas Apps
This type of worksheet in exporting D365 data to Microsoft Excel creates a local copy of the data, and no connection is maintained between Dataverse workbook.
Static worksheet
This type of worksheet in exporting D365 data to Microsoft Excel maintains a link between the Dataverse data and the Excel file. The Dataverse security model is maintained, and users need appropriate privileges to refresh the data.
Dynamic worksheets or pivot tables
This option opens the Excel file for the user in a window within Dynamics 365 or custom model-driven apps. This option is popular when someone wants to quickly edit multiple Dynamics 365 records.
Excel Online
When you create _____, you create analytics based on the data that is important to you. When you view records, you can apply filters to drill down into the detail that is important to you.
Views
_______ are quick and actionable visualizations of data.
It is interactive that you can continue to drill down into relevant data. You can also place _____ on dashboards and view them in line with the data they are displaying.
Charts
Both standard and interactive _________ offer a combination of charts and views in an easy-to-consume experience.
It is a collection of
- Views
- Charts
- Iframe
- Web resources
Dashboards
Each of the Dynamics 365 first party apps include system _______ that you use to gain insights into how your business is doing. You can use these ______ as is or customize them for your needs. If you need to create a basic specialized ______, you can use the Report Wizard to create custom reports.
Report
Which of the following responses represents a Microsoft Business Applications first-party app?
a. Azure
b. Office 365
c. Dynamics 365 Field Service
c. Dynamics 365 Field Service
Azure and Office 365 does not fall in the Microsoft Business Application product line
Which of the following applications can be integrated with Dynamics 365 to provide document management capabilities that include versioning and collaboration
a. Microsoft Word
b. Microsoft Excel
c. Microsoft SharePoint
c. Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a document management application that can be integrated with Dynamics 365
Microsoft Word and Excel does not provide document management capabilities
Which of the following searching or filtering options would be used if you wanted to display a list of Accounts with open orders?
a. Advanced Filter
b. Quick Find
c. Categorized Search
a. Advanced Filter
- Advanced Filter capabilities provide the ability to filter data using details from multiple Dynamics 365 tables
- Quick Find is a searching option that only allow searching of one table at a time
- Categorized Search doesn’t let you filter data based on multiple tables
___________ enables sellers to build strong customer relationships and close deals faster.
Dynamics 365 Sales
_________ is a guide or map that organizations implement to assist sellers during sales life cycle management.
Sales process
Enumerate the general outline of a typical sales process
Qualify -> Develop -> Propose -> Close
A ______ represents someone with an interest in what you are saying.
Lead
Represents a business or organization.
Sometimes this organization is a customer or vendor.
In some organizations, it might be a different grouping, such as a family.
It typically will have related contact records
Account
Represents supporting records and customer interactions.
By default, it includes email, appointment, and phone call.
Activities
It can either be an account or a contact.
In a B2B scenario, this is an account.
In a B2C scenario, this is a contact.
Customer
Represents someone with an interest in what you are selling. It might be an existing client, or someone that you have never done business with before.
Lead
Like a lead, this is a potential sales transaction. This is a more viable prospect that a lead, and it will contain more information and be tracked for a longer period of time.
Opportunity
A collection of records that interact with opportunities, quotes, orders, and invoices to facilitate management of products, price lists, discounts, and product families for sales transactions.
Product Catalog
A formal offer for products or services, proposed at specific prices and related payment terms to a customer.
Quote
A confirmed request for delivery of goods and services based on specified terms, or a quote that has been accepted by a customer.
Order
An order or record of a sale including details about products or services purchased that has been billed to the customer.
Invoice
A snapshot of where prospects are in the sales process.
A typical _________ would show how many deals salespeople are expected to close in a given week, month, or year, and how close a rep is to reaching their sales quota.
Sales Pipeline
Organizations that you are competing with to win deals
Competitors
In this part of sales process, an account executive reaches out to the lead to gather more information about them and determine if a relationship would be mutually beneficial.
- > If it is determined that it is not a good fit, the lead is disqualified and the sales cycle ends.
- > If it is determine that everyone is a good fit, the lead is qualified and converted to an opportunity.
Qualify
In this part of sales process, the opportunity record is used to fill-up the details of the deal.
Details such as the product and services they are interest in, estimated revenue, and time-lines are added to the opportunity.
Develop
In this part of sales process, a quote is added to the opportunity that represents the formal proposal to the customer once the deal is ready.
Propose
In this part of sales process, an invoice is generated to bill the customer after the order is fulfilled.
Fulfill
In this part of sales process, an invoice is generated to bill the customer after the order is fulfilled.
Fulfill
To help manage the sales lifecycle, organizations often use ________________
Salesforce automation software.
To help manage the sales lifecycle, organizations often use ________________
Salesforce automation software.