New look at Microsoft Dynamics CRM roadmap through Q2 2015 reveals new code names, more four-part release waves

Editor's note: The blog post that provided the new information described in this article has been removed. As the article notes, this is pre-release/uncofirmed information on Microsoft's release plans.

An updated version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM roadmap surfaced today and it featured a release schedule beyond the Q4 2014 major release codenamed “Vega”, which may become "CRM 2015". Moving into the year2015, the Dynamics CRM roadmap continues to separate features between social, marketing, Parature, and core CRM.

The new information comes from Marc Sallin, a developer at iSolutions AG in Bern, on his SwissXRM blog and represents some of the pre-release information that Microsoft has shared with Dynamics CRM partners. The Q4 2014 release wave includes some code names that should sound familiar to those already tracking the Dynamics CRM roadmap. Electra (Dynamics Marketing), Vega (believed to be a significant release for core Dynamics CRM), and Hydra (Social Listening) had been out since Convergence 2014, if not earlier. But Parature's Q4 release now has its own code name, "PHOENIX".

And new code names for a Q2 2015 release wave can be seen in the diagram as well.         

Many of the specific features listed in Sallin's blog post are consistent with the information shared with partners at WPC 2014 in July. Those include configurable product attributes, product family ...