Plan and prepare for Microsoft Dataverse in 2021 release wave 2
Important
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Important
The 2021 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2021 to March 2022. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Dataverse.
Overview
Microsoft Dataverse is a low-code data platform that allows you to easily build scalable and interconnected applications, automations, and agents using common data, security, and business logic.
Deliver services with agility
Quickly add business value with an extensible data platform that uses out-of-the-box common tables, extended attributes, semantic meanings, and an open ecosystem enabled by Common Data Model.
Increase scale and efficiency
Boost productivity and reduce costs by quickly developing applications, processes, and reusable data schemes. Repeatably build, validate, and deploy your applications using GitHub and Azure DevOps.
Make your data work smarter
Get accurate insights by adding low-code AI tools to your process automation. Identify and resolve duplicated and conflicting data with a managed data platform that includes built-in business logic and rules.
Rely on the security of a trusted platform
Protect your data with a robust security management infrastructure that provides critical security and compliance capabilities—advanced encryption, rich access control, and deep integration with Azure Active Directory.
Updates to Microsoft Dataverse 2021 release wave 2
Investment areas
Microsoft Dataverse data
Microsoft Dataverse is the default data store for Microsoft Power Platform. Microsoft Dataverse allows the storage of many types of data in customizable tables. Depending on your data needs, it's possible to store structured and unstructured data in one or many environments. Microsoft Dataverse provides extensive security, filtering, and search capabilities within environment bounds. Microsoft Dataverse API and logic capabilities are used to build and maintain workflows for your application needs.
Bridge Microsoft Power Platform to Azure data
Customers have asked for a single, end-to-end way to work with data in Microsoft Dataverse, including running AI and machine learning, integrating with external datasets, and slicing and dicing large volumes of Dataverse data. Now, instead of using multiple tools to get the job done, you can accelerate time-to-insight with a single comprehensive solution: Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse. This solution can help you deliver on your end-to-end goals, and is already built in and available out of the box.
Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse enables seamless Dataverse integration with Azure Synapse Analytics to empower users to analyze data in the lake. With just a few clicks, you can bring your Microsoft Dataverse data to Azure Synapse Analytics and visualize data in your Azure Synapse workspace. You can also quickly start processing the data to discover insights using advanced analytics capabilities for serverless data lake exploration, code-free data integration, data flows for extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines, and optimized Apache Spark for big data analytics.
Enterprise customers are now able to use the familiarity of T-SQL to analyze big data and gain insights, while optimizing their data transformation pipeline to leverage the deep integration of Azure Synapse with other Azure services such as Power BI Embedded, Azure CosmosDB, and Azure Machine Learning.
Microsoft Dataverse API
Microsoft Dataverse APIs are the glue that binds Microsoft Power Platform together.
- The data APIs provide capabilities to work with data in your Microsoft Dataverse tables and perform specialized operations.
- The relevance search API makes it possible to easily find relevant information that can span multiple tables.
Microsoft Power Platform depends on APIs exposed by Microsoft Dataverse APIs. Canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Microsoft Power Automate depend on Dataverse APIs. ISVs and customers use our APIs to create integrations and custom applications.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Dataverse 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.