Microsoft Business Applications: Dynamics 365 – PowerApps – Dataverse- Flow – PowerBI
You can find the release notes at this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/
Some highlights are:
Sales forecasting – with the help of Cortana
Deeper integration with LinkedIn
Teams integration with Relationship Assistant
App licensing requirements presented to app makers while building PowerApps – know if your app will work with your licensing!
Canvas apps with responsive layouts
Save and reuse PowerApps components
Earlier today Microsoft announced some important information about the Spring release notes for Dynamics. That blog post can be found here:
As indicated in that blog, this is an important release because all D365 customers will be on the same version.
Key dates for the release notes can be found here:
https://aka.ms/bagreleasecalendar
Most notably they will be released on January 21st.
Bookmark this URL! You’ll find the release notes here once they’re released! https://aka.ms/businessappsreleasenotes
Recently they added a new connector for PowerBI – and you may want to use it in place of your Dynamics 365 connector!
Here are some of the key benefits:
Improved performance
Data load and refresh times will be decreased. This was a big pain point with the D365 connector when working with large datasets.
Sorting the entities by custom and system entities
When you decide to bring in tables, you can see which entities are system and which are custom from the data table selector.
Friendly option set values
Options sets will show up as their friendly values. Before, you would have to build a table with the Value and Name and merge it with the entity table to get the friendly values.
Alphabetical order of column names in tables
This was one of my biggest pain points because the columns seemed to show up in no particular order using the D365 connector. With the CDS Connector, the columns will be in alphabetical order when you need to edit the queries.
Chatbot
Talk to the Dynamics 365 Bot to search, update and post to records.
The bot will prompt you with some example questions, and from there you can imagine this comes in handy when you want information quickly without having to go to Dynamics.
Add record as a tab
Add records to a Teams channel to get easy access to any record. Such as the Account, Contact, Opportunity or Project.
This is great for managing Projects. Put the Project record right in the Teams channel you are using to collaborate with your other project team members and you can quickly pull up the project estimates, as well as key information you are using to keep track of it in Dynamics.
Conversations
Get and keep conversations going about the record you have created a tab for.
View your dashboards
Gain quick insights into your data with the dashboards embedded right into Teams. Whether they are Dynamics Dashboards, or PowerBI dashboards that you have embedded into D365, get the quick insights you may need at your fingertips.
In summary, this new Teams integration with Dynamics will allow your users to perform most of their work in Teams. They won’t necessarily have to go to Dynamics 365 every time they need to perform an action on a record or get insights on a report/dashboard.
