Globalization
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To run operations globally, businesses must meet complex, country-specific globalization requirements in the areas of tax, e-invoicing, auditing, regulatory reporting, banking, business document layout, and so on. Some of these are legally required in certain countries or regions and some of them are adopted based on local business practices. Local governments or tax authorities frequently change these requirements, often with very tight law enforcement dates.
Our globalization investments for Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, and Dynamics 365 Commerce focus on three key areas:
We constantly monitor legislation changes in the out-of-the-box countries and regions and ship regulatory updates for these changes per government deadlines. Customers and partners can track the upcoming and released regulatory updates in LCS Issue Search. They also can join the LCS Alert Service community to see what legislation change alerts are coming and submit their own alerts.
We are extending the out-of-the-box country and region coverage and enhancing the localization functionality for existing countries and regions. Our globalization ISVs extend our global coverage even further by creating and publishing their localization solutions at AppSource. Currently, we have over 40 ISV localization solutions published at AppSource for Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain Management, Project Operations, and Commerce.
We are enhancing our low-code configurable globalization tools and services to further reduce the complexity of meeting the constantly changing regulatory and local requirements in multiple countries and regions. Customers and partners used these tools and services to extend out-of-the-box country and region localizations and created more than 13,000 custom features for over 120 countries.
In 2021 release wave 1, we focused on delivering localizations for Egypt. That extended the number of out-of-the-box countries and regions to 43 and the number of languages to 48. We shipped the general availability version of Electronic Invoicing Add-on for Dynamics 365, which is the first configurable globalization microservice that extends the capabilities existing in Finance, Commerce, Supply Chain Management, and Project Operations and provides better scalability, agility to align with changing legal requirements, and consistent experience across the growing number of countries and regions demanding e-invoicing (60-plus) as well as business-to-business scenarios. We also released several features highly requested at the Ideas Portal in the areas of tax, invoicing, and configurable business documents.