Show Notes
What’s New
PowerApps updates:
- What licenses are needed for various PowerApps –
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/business-model-may/ - Return an Array of Data from Flow to PowerApps –
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/return-an-array-from-flow-to-powerapps-response-method/
Flow updates:
- Build Flows with State Machine functionality –
https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/state-machines/
Dynamics 365 CE Updates:
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- Universal Resource Scheduling Enhancements – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2018/05/07/whats-new-in-universal-resource-scheduling-for-dynamics-365-may-2018-update/
- Field and Project Service Enhancements – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2018/05/08/release-notes-for-field-service-and-project-service-automation-update-release-5-2/
- Updates to tools making automated testing for Dev/Ops processes easier (Easy
Repro) – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2018/05/11/spring-2018-update-for-easy-repro/
How do I operationalize this?
1. Notifications (for non-global admins)
2. Show how to know updates are ready and apply them
Featured Content
- What just launched in the Spring 2018 Release of Dynamics 365 –
https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/release/spring-2018-release/ - Spring ’18 Release Notes for F&O:
https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/axsupport/archive/2018/03/21/business-applications-spring-18-release-notes
Entire Dynamics Stack:
- GDPR Readiness
- Accessibility
- Vision
- Magnifier / High Contrast
- Hearing
- Narrator / Screen Reader compatibility
- Speech
- Game Chat Transcription – Speech to Text and vice versa
- Enhanced Dictation
- Focus Mode
- Syllabification – improves word recognition
- Vision
Specifics in Customer Engagement:
Everywhere:
- Unified Client Interface completeness
- Common Data Service for Apps
- Auditing of reads of records in CDS for Apps
Marketing:
- First party solution using CDS for Analytics, just like Sales or Service
- Multi-Channel customer journey orchestration (marketing automation)
- Event Management
- Lead scoring and management
- Meant for mid-sized marketing needs – Adobe is still our preferred
Enterprise solution
Sales:
- Sales Insights
- Relationship Analytics
- New Sales Professional SKU (compare Sales functionality –
https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/sales/)
Specifics in Business Central:
- Small and Medium sized businesses
- Next Generation of NAV
- Financials
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
- Project
- Service order management
- HR
Specifics in Talent:
- Integration with F&O preview
- Configuration Hiring process
- Advanced Interview scheduling
- Portal
- Onboard updates
Specifics in PowerApps:
- Introduction of Model Driven PowerApps
- In Canvas PowerApps, introduction of attachment handling for SharePoint
connector
Specifics in Finance and Operations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/whats-new-changed
- Alerts
- Optimization Advisor
- Project Improvements
- Vendor Collaboration
- CDS 2.0
- Integration for Talent and Project Service Automation
- Telemetry based KB recommendations in LCS