Microsoft Corp. today began the global launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 by announcing the availability of the first eight languages, including English, Spanish, simplified Chinese and French. As part of its commitment to a rapid global rollout, Microsoft is kicking off a 12-week global launch tour today to give organizations worldwide the opportunity to experience Microsoft Dynamics CRM for themselves.

As a key component of Microsoft’s software plus services strategy, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 delivers rich CRM capabilities that may be deployed as a traditional on-premise solution, as a Web-based on-demand solution, or as a flexible mix of on-premise software and on-demand services. Since the initial release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 in December 2007, customers worldwide have gone into production on the new platform via both on-premise and on-demand deployment models.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0’s new multitenant architecture allows for a smoother and quicker deployment in a hosted environment, and within 48 hours of the code becoming available, customers were able to deploy partner-hosted offerings. Increase Ltd., a hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution provider based in the United Kingdom, began upgrading its hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 customers to the new release on Dec. 17, the same day that the code was released by Microsoft to partners and customers.