Akvelon has built a highly-configurable global search add-in for CRM and in this video Sergei shows a demo of their search product working with CRM 2011 On-premise and Online. Akvelon’s Global Search supports searching data across multiple entities, contents of attachment, displays related entities for many-to-many (N:N)relationships and searching by lookup fields. It also has the ability to search custom entities and fields which will come in very handy for xRM implementations. Behind the scenes, the add-in uses a combination of index based search, live queries and cached results
I really like this tool. The greatest thing is that allows to search across different entities and multiple fields from one place. As I know – it is supports now search in CRM Online.
Search through content of attached documents in CRM – useful feature too. @AdamBurgable – they already support CRM 2011 Online and On-premise
Also check out XRMagic.com for another multi-entity search add-in for CRM 2011. At the very low cost, there’s no reason not to have both XRMagic Search and Akvelon’s product. XRMagic Search is for quickly getting to a known record and for answering the common question “Now, where did I enter that information again? I know it’s here somewhere. Is it in notes? An e-mail? A knowledge base article?”. Thanks, EJ (Partner, xrmagic.com)