Certified for Microsoft Dynamics®
Customer Evidences

The purpose of customer evidences is to grow trust in your solution among customer prospects, showing that your solution has already been used and recommended by others.

CfMD Requirement: Your solution needs to have 10 customer evidences for ERP and 8 for CRM solutions to fulfill the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD) requirements. The 10 ERP CfMD evidences need to come from at least 6 unique customer installations (i.e. 6 different installations, with references provided by 6 different people). The 8 CRM evidences need to come from at least 4 unique customer installations (i.e. 4 different installations with references coming from 4 different people). You have several choices to fulfill this requirement (see table below). You can get more than one evidence from the same customer if you use different evidence types, as long as they come from the minimum number of installations. For example, you can get a Public Microsoft Reference and a Confidential Reference from the same customer. Or you can get a Confidential Reference and a Case Study from the same customer. Fewer than the required valid customer evidences mean that the solution cannot pass the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics validation.

Submit Your References Online

Follow the link to Submit Online login using your existing Lionbridge account.

You must be registered for the Software Solutions Test and CfMD or CfMD for CRM 2011, select your existing test in the Validation Programs drop down. Please see our How to document for step by step instructions

You can speed up your certification process by asking for verbal permission from your customers prior to submission and following up with them to make sure they have replied to the validation e-mails.

Program Details

Program Overview
Certification Process
Software Solution Test
Pass Guarantee
Pricing
Registration and Resources
Customer Evidences
Software Escrow
Support Capabilities
CfMD for Resellers
Upgrading Certification
Testing in Other Languages
Globalization Services for Dynamics Solutions
Changes to Microsoft Partner Network

More details about each type of evidence (please read to be familiar with all the criteria)

Choices of Customer Evidences for CfMD (need a total of 10)

	Public Microsoft References	Confidential Microsoft References	Confidential VeriTest References	Case Studies	Executive Nominations
	Public Microsoft References	Confidential References		Case Studies	Executive Nominations
Highlights	* To share your success * To network with partners	* No networking opportunity * Count toward ERP and CRM Competencies	* No networking opportunity * Don’t count toward ERP or CRM Competencies	Posted on microsoft.com	From a Microsoft Director
When to choose this option?	* When you want to raise awareness of your accomplishments. * Especially when you have fewer than 10 customers * Only for customers with 250+ employees	* If you are a indirectly selling ISV * When you already have references entered into your Partner Membership Centre	* If you are a indirectly selling ISV, working with resellers * When you want to keep your customers' data confidential & need new references.	When you already have a case study posted that meet the criteria listed below.	When you don't have enough references & have built a good relationship at Microsoft.
Get started	Click on the Dynamics Customer Reference Nomination Form & also Submit Online Login using your existing Lionbridge account.	* Submit Online Login using your existing Lionbridge account. * VeriTest will validate.	* Submit Online Login using your existing Lionbridge account. * VeriTest will validate.	* Submit Online Login using your existing Lionbridge account. * VeriTest will validate.	* Submit Online Login using your existing Lionbridge account. * VeriTest will validate.
Maximum number allowed	10 for ERP, 8 for CRM	10 for ERP, 8 for CRM	10 for ERP, 8 for CRM	2	2