From the course: Learning Microsoft Dynamics 365: The Basics
Unlock this course with a free trial
Join today to access over 24,700 courses taught by industry experts.
Business processes: The basics - Dynamics 365 Tutorial
From the course: Learning Microsoft Dynamics 365: The Basics
Business processes: The basics
- [Instructor] Ever wish you had a clear roadmap for closing your deals? Something that takes the guesswork out of what to do next. Well, that's exactly what business processes do for you. Dynamics 365 Sales is built on a strong foundation of business process. Think of a business process as a step-by-step playbook for managing sales opportunities. Each stage has specific activities that need to be completed before moving forward. A well-defined business process will be based on established best practices, standardized for consistent activities, well organized, documented for clarity, and ideally, automated as much as possible to minimize potential for human errors. This is an example of a document process. Consider the lifecycle of a document and how it evolves from initiation to publication. This makes sense to us, as we've been writing documents since we were kids in school, right? The same thing applies to our business processes. We have a beginning, a middle, and an end. A typical…