Day: May 24, 2024

In our most recent webinar here at MADIC dynamics, we took a look at What’s New in Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

If you want to catch up on this webinar, you can do so here.

1. Introduction
2. New Features
3. Conclusion

Introduction ^

This webinar was presented by my colleage at MADIC dynamics, Simon Bellinger, and covered the top new functionality he identified in the 2024 Wave 1 release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central which would be of most benefit to clients and others.

New functionality is announced for a release wave, but might not actually be released at the start of the wave, but anytime within the six months of the wave. The functionality Simon covered in the webinar, is mainly functionality which is already available for use.

New Features ^

The features covered by Simon were:

• Boost productivity with the modern action bar
• Get to insights fast with Copilot-created analysis tabs
• Create sales lines easily with Copilot
• Ask Copilot for help with fields
• Chat with Copilot
• Create product information faster with Copilot (will only mention briefly, as it’s not available yet)
• Automate the reminders process in collections
• Use in-client page scripting tool for acceptance testing

Two others that Simon would have covered, time permitting, were:

• Use new Excel layouts for 35 selected reports
• Access worksheet pages from mobile phones

Conclusion ^

Business Central is in rapid development with Microsoft and has two annual release waves, both of which contains many enhancements and new functionality. The New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series on this blog covered all of the announcements and it is worth keeping an eye on the functionality as it is announced, sp that you can see what will be released soon. It’s also worth keeping an eye on what is removed from a release as well; sometimes a piece of new functionality is announced, but then withdrawn for a, usually, undisclosed reason. These features are often re-announced, but other times they just disappear.

The ones covered by Simon in the webinar are announced and still listed and, in most cases, already available.

The webinar recording is available.