Plan and prepare for finance and operations cross-app capabilities in 2024 release wave 1

Important

The 2024 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2024 to September 2024. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for finance and operations cross-app capabilities.

Overview

Finance and operations cross-app capabilities apply to all finance and operations apps, including Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Dynamics 365 Commerce, and Dynamics 365 Project Operations.

We continuously enhance the platform and services that support finance and operations apps with new capabilities to enable businesses everywhere to accelerate their digital transformation. As we add product enhancements, we deliver frequent updates that help customers stay current consistently, predictably, and seamlessly. The key driver for the new core capabilities is increasing productivity and return on investment.

Updates to finance and operations cross-app capabilities 2024 release wave 1

Investment areas

One Dynamics One Platform
Virtual table users accessing finance and operations data will experience better performance, automation, and less management, making it an alternative solution for accessing finance and operations data on Power Platform with less effort. This is a huge leap in realizing a long-standing customer promise of the One Dynamics One Platform.

Customers using export to Data Lake will have an opportunity to transition to Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse, which will bring an integrated experience with the ability to choose data from all Dynamics 365 apps. For AX 2012 or AX 2009 customers planning an upgrade to cloud-based finance and operations, you can easily query finance and operations data using Azure Synapse Analytics. You can preserve your existing data integration pipelines by accessing finance and operations data in the lake in table form, as Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse supports finance and operations tables and entities.

Copilot for Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps
AI provides opportunities to empower enterprise users through copilot experiences. These experiences increase productivity by leveraging business data and large language models (LLMs). Copilot experiences in Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps will complement the experiences across Microsoft offerings, including Power Platform and Microsoft 365.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for finance and operations cross-app capabilities below:

Check out the release plan

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.