Dynamics Profile: Microsoft MVP Pablo Peralta is having fun with Dynamics CRM

Pablo Peralta began his Microsoft Dynamics CRM career working with the app in 2008. At the time, he was working at a Microsoft Gold Partner in Uruguay, where he was responsible for the architecture and technical aspects of project delivery.

"My background is from the development side but always on Microsoft platforms," Peralta said, but when he saw Dynamics CRM, the opportunity seemed clear.

"Dynamics CRM was something pretty cool and it was about to explode," said Peralta, who co-founded UruIT Global IT Services, a Dynamics CRM outsourcing services provider in Uruguay. "I got involved and I loved the technology because it's pretty powerful and you can achieve a lot of things without writing a single line of code. It has some things that users love like the integration with Outlook and SharePoint. And you can build your own solution on the platform."

Peralta has been involved in the Dynamics CRM community in a number of ways in recent years and says that in way, he considers it his second family. Becoming a Microsoft MVP was something of a surprise for Peralta, who says he didn't even realize he had been nominated until the award was delivered.

"From the beginning when I started focusing on CRM, I started blogging well to share my findings, to share some tips that I have found," Peralta said. "I was then approached by someone from Microsoft who asked if I wanted to participate in the MVP forum. I asked, ‘What the hell is an MVP forum?' That was my first question. I said, ‘OK. What do I have to do?' ...