Preview of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 Investment Areas

Microsoft have released a preview of some of the functionality slated for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The functionality has been broken down into two areas:

• AI powered business
• World class service

The functionality slated for inclusion includes:

• AI powered business
  • Finance
    • Collections improvements
    • Regulatory requirements
  • Supply chain
    • Field Service integration with Service Management
  • Generative AI
    • Create orders from Chat
    • Page summarisation
    • Payment reconciliation
    • E-document more matching
    • Drag and Drop on Prompt Dialog
    • Late payment prediction – new model
    • 3^rd party knowledge bases
    • More languages
    • And more to come…
  • Reporting
    • Power BI apps
    • Embedded Power BI pages
    • Improved Report Explorer
    • More Excel layout reports
    • Improved Data Analysis
    • Improved Document Reporting
    • Sustainability Role Centre and Goals
• World class service
  • Geographic expansion
    • Additional countries
  • User experience
    • Share details with Power Automate
    • Actionable permissions errors
  • Power Platform
    • Additonal Power Automate templates
    • More data and business events exposed
  • Fundamentals
    • Performance – Easier profiling
    • Scalability
    • Reliability
    • High Availability
  • Efficient development
    • No friction in testing app dependencies
  • Administration
    • Flexible update management
    • Comprehensive Admin Center app management
    • Auditing in Microsoft Purview

As we get nearer to the release of 2024 Wave 2, it will be interesting to get more information on what each of the above areas includes, but it again looks like there will be a lot of new functionality coming.