Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Project Operations in 2024 release wave 2
Important
The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 to March 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Project Operations.
Overview
In one application, Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects your sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams so they can win more deals, accelerate delivery, empower employees, and maximize profitability. The application provides the necessary visibility, collaboration, and agility across the project lifecycle to drive success for project-centric businesses. Powered by Microsoft Power Platform, customers are provided with an unmatched set of capabilities that enable everyone to analyze, act, and automate across their organization to transform their services business from the ground up. It's everything you need to run your project operations, from deal management to financials, all in one application.
For 2024 release wave 2, we're delivering functionally rich experiences in the following areas:
- Support for larger projects with increased tasks and dependencies in the work breakdown structure.
- Usability and performance improvements for project invoicing.
- Improvements to Time, Expense, and Material usage entry, submission, and approval process using Copilot.
- Enable stocked and resource/non-stocked deployments in the same Legal entity.
- Investments in generative AI to help with core operational workflows in project proposal generation.
Updates to Dynamics 365 Project Operations 2024 release wave 2
Investment areas
Copilot in Project Operations
With every new release wave, AI and automation investments through Copilot empower consultants, sales personnel, project and resource managers, as well as project accountants in Dynamics 365 Project Operations, providing them with intelligent, natural-language interactions. These enhancements extend beyond business applications to productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel, meeting employees where they are most productive. Copilot features in Project Operations streamline and expedite workflows from the frontline to the back office, optimizing operational efficiency for service delivery organizations.
Optimize Project Operations
In one application, Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects your sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams so they can win more deals, accelerate delivery, empower employees, and maximize profitability. Project Operations is continuing to invest in capabilities to improve usability, performance, and scale across key areas of the product like project planning, invoicing, time entry, and core transaction processing flows. Project Operations continues to invest in capabilities to improve usability, performance, and scale across critical areas of the product like project sales, planning, resourcing, budgeting and tracking, invoicing, and core transaction process flows.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Project Operations below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.
Get the most out of Project Operations
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Project Operations. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Project Operations. |
| User community | Engage with Project Operations experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Project Operations. |