Version 2 Release Date 4th October, 2024
Executive Summary
Business Central is a business management application for small and mid-sized organizations that automates and streamlines business processes. Highly scalable and adaptable with a rich set of capabilities, Business Central enables companies to manage their finances, supply chain, manufacturing, projects, services, and more. Business Central is fast to implement and easy to configure. Simplicity guides innovations in product design, development, implementation, and usability.
· With this release Microsoft demonstrates again the commitment to Copilot.
· Microsoft will enable Copilot to help with creating sales orders directly from Chat.
· Microsoft will also make it faster to create product information faster with Business Central using Copilot to create information like Variants, Unit of Measure, and other information.
· Microsoft are also investing in piloting Chat extensibility to help users learn from 3rd party content.
· Developers are already improving their productivity with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, and there's more innovation to come from these world-leading development tools for AL developers.
· Microsoft has also enabled developers to enrich the application metadata with more details for a better Copilot experience.
· With this release Microsoft will enable customers to use installments on sales documents.
· Microsoft will enable support for multiple VAT numbers to support customers with international business.
Main updates in 2024 release wave 2
Enhanced Copilot Integration: Improved capabilities for creating sales orders directly from chat and generating product information faster.
Expanded E-document Features: More capabilities for sending documents, including integration with Dynamics 365 Field Service for service orders.
Sustainability Reporting: New reporting features to help companies track and report greenhouse gas emissions.
Installment Support: Ability to use installments on sales documents.
Multi-VAT Support: Support for multiple VAT numbers to facilitate international business.
Regulatory Compliance Automation: Automation of regulatory tasks to help organizations stay compliant with government regulations.
Global Availability: Expanded global availability of Business Central.
Main Key feature
Copilot is a system feature and an integral part of Business Central.
As is true of most system features, you don't grant access to individual users, and you can't turn Copilot on or off.
Copilot offers data governance controls and the option to deactivate individual Copilot and AI capabilities for each environment.
There are different levels of access control for AI capabilities, depending on the feature:
Allow data movement across geographical regions.
This task is required only if your Business Central environment is in a different geography than the Azure OpenAI Service that it uses.
Activate the feature on the Copilot & AI capabilities page. Learn more about this task.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based business management solution for small to medium-sized businesses.
Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by migrating from an on-premises Microsoft ERP solution to Dynamics 365 Business Central. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of a Dynamics 365 Business Central migration for their organizations.
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