Microsoft Releases Dynamics CRM 2011 Data Load Performance and Scalability Case Study
Microsoft has released details of a bulk data load benchmark testing on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 performed on behalf of a large financial services company in a new white paper.
The company was looking for a new CRM system because its existing CRM solution stored customer data (including various related custody account information) in its host system. And that meant that during daily operations users were frequently creating and updating customer records.
To better accommodate business needs, the company wanted to set up a solution that would manage its master customer data as well as integrate data with its host system, according to a blog post by Jim Toland, Senior Content Project Manager, Enterprise Audience Content Team at Microsoft.
One of the first steps the company had to take was migrating and synchronizing legacy customer data with the new system. That's when the customer asked Microsoft Services to conduct benchmark testing of an on-premises deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, according to Toland.
The reason for the testing was to ensure that Dynamics CRM 2011 could accommodate the need to create or update 10 million custody account records as part of a single batch job that would be completed in four hours or less.
The key goals of the testing were to:
- Verify that bulk data load for both the initial data migration and for batch processing on fixed schedules could be achieved in a reasonable time.
- Estimate the time required to migrate 91.8 million customer records and their related custody entities to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
- Identify
the hardware capacity required to meet ...
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