Hi everyone,
A few days ago Microsoft made public the document that reveals the news that “Spring’19 release of Dynamics 365”.
For those who are not yet familiar with this, Let me explain very briefly. As with other product lines, Microsoft releases 2 “major” updates per year, these 2 waves are present April and October. Among these important updates, we have in character monthly other minor updates, corresponding to patches, etc.
Give a recap of everything coming in the spring release This is impossible, as it affects all Dynamics 365 solutions and transversal technologies. Therefore, I will focus on what it affects in particular our Dynamics 365 Business Central.
News and improvements For users
One of the constants, since Microsoft acquired Navision, is the quest to improve user productivity solution.
With this version, we are looking for a smoother experience in the Web environment, with very interesting changes aimed at increasing speed data entry and analysis, such as quick entry, sorting
lists and values. Numerous feature improvements are introduced related to the customer context, such as working date. A document focus mode is also built in, Improved search and a new page inspector.
Other features like filters also when exporting to Excel have been improved (adding an “open in Excel” option), as well as more improvements to navigation menus, such as autosave, date picker,
etc.
Finally, Business Central will be more intuitive thanks to an enhanced personalization experience and better discovery capabilities of new features, such as updated menu actions and groups everywhere the product, as well as the possibility of customizing them in order to adapt them to the needs and preferences of each user.
Performance improvements, reliability and scalability
Regardless of the type or size of the company, the user You are looking for a reliable platform to run your business on, which allows this collaborate and get the job done.
Along with this wave of new features, there was has invested heavily in improving the performance, reliability and scalability of Corporate headquarters.
Business Central is now faster and more focused Typical business scenarios and usage patterns. The browser experience is more “responsive”, server resources are optimized for a faster user interaction and the database is optimized for handle more data and load it faster.
The stability of the service has also been increased, with the ability to set the update schedule outside of work hours. On the other hand, a single “self-help” site has been incorporated, where it is possible to consult documentation and share experiences with the community of users all over the world or request assistance in a very simple way.
Finally, work is also underway in the security sector to comply with the most demanding standards on the market, such as ISO27001, ISO27017, ISO27018, SOC 1 and 2 Type 2, HIPPA BAA and FERPA.
Accessibility
Although this might fall under the improvements section It is convenient for the user to highlight it. Business Central is carrying out a great commitment to offering a highly accessible desktop and mobile interface, and this is one of the improvements made in this April update.
Basic application like app
It was rumored months (or years ago) and so it was confirmed in some demos made during Directions’18, it is already a reality. We have the basic application as “app”, i.e. as a extension, compiled in AL using Visual Studio Code.
Data and intelligence Artificial
The last big news we will find at launch April is really about data and intelligence artificial. The bet will be to first bring the data to the CDS by integrating Dynamics 365 for Sales via CDS, so as to obtain information from Dynamics 365 AI for Sales and Business Central users they can have intelligent information, such as predictive opportunity scoring On sale.
In future posts I will go over each of these. pillars in a more concrete way, going into details (which can be tell) about what awaits us with Spring Release’19.
Greetings and see you next time
Miguel Llorça.
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