title: Microsoft Dynamics CRM or SQL Server?
body: <p>In my organisation we write many custom mobile solutions for many different clients. We have started utilizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in some of our test products however almost all of the work we are using it for is done with custom entities and the solutions are utilizing it as a back-end database. From my impressions so far, using CRM in this way is counter-intuitive and slow. </p>
  
  <p>From your experience, would there be any benefit I am not seeing by using CRM instead of a normal SQL Server? I have only seen very basic stuff on the CRM front-end but am not sure how the custom entities become useful in CRM?</p>