Max Fatouretchi's CRM journey began some 20 years ago as he started his small software business in Vienna, Austria, developing custom CRM applications for clients in Austria. Some 7 years, later he joined Microsoft's international team as a partner technology specialist and industry manager for Microsoft Dynamics 365 products for the next 13 years.
Throughout these 20 years, he has been engaged in many CRM implementations across the globe. The first one was with his own software company in Vienna, where he developed a CRM system for several banking clients in collaboration with HP (Hewlett Packard). At the same time, he fulfilled a role as a mentor and trainer, teaching CRM classes across Europe. After joining Microsoft, he started working with Microsoft teams across Europe the, Middle East, Africa, the Asia, Pacific, China, and Latin America to develop and deliver CRM projects to enterprise customers. As a lead architect and industry manager with Microsoft, he has participated in many CRM implementations with some 100+ multinational companies, mostly in the financial services industry.
I have much to be thankful for in writing this book, such as all my colleagues, clients, and partners who have given me the opportunity to work with them and learn from them in so many exciting projects; this book is my recognition for them all.
I would also like to express my deep gratitude to some of my colleagues, friends, and partners for their voluntary support in reviewing the contents of the book and for providing valuable feedback and input to improve it. My special thanks go to (in alphabetical order):
Erener Ozkan, CEO at VeriPark
Brissaud Philippe, Program Manager - Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft
Fratello Nick, Microsoft Business Applications Solutions Architect
Genov Yuriy, Chief Operation Officer of DSK bank
Jamrik Ferenc, SLA Manager at Emarsys
Khoso Jandost, Group Manager, CRM at Avanade
Slepitsky Andrey, Architect, Business Applications Domain at Microsoft
Venkata-chalam Ganapathy, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Verlinden Philip, Architect, Business Applications Domain at Microsoft
Viganò Corrado, Sales Executive - Program Manager Altitudo
Wijns Bert, Architect, Business Applications Domain at Microsoft
Special thanks also go to Veripark for allowing me to leverage some of their intellectual properties in Chapter 2,Getting to Know Your Customer, and building a comprehensive 360-degree client view. This is one of my favorite solutions with a very rich and easy UI architecture but with a very comprehensive and role-based 360-degree client view.