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Staying on Top of the Latest Dynamics 365 Business Central Updates

December 7, 2022 - by Synoptek

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central continues to be a highly sought-after solution in the enterprise market space, with several organizations embracing the solution to connect and grow their business and make smarter decisions. This intelligent, unified, and adaptable solution that offers seamless integration with other products in the Microsoft portfolio is helping teams optimize operations, transform operations, and engage with customers in new and meaningful ways. In order to make the most of Business Central, you need to stay on top of the latest updates.

The Latest Dynamics 365 Business Central Updates

No one understands the pace of technology or business change like Microsoft does. Therefore, to keep up with all the latest trends emerging in the business landscape, Microsoft constantly releases new and improved updates for all its applications.

For Business Central especially, these updates range from better administration capabilities to improved application features, better integration with Microsoft 365, and an array of carefully curated local and regional capabilities. Through these updates, Microsoft aims to improve users’ overall experience with the enterprise solution, while also ensuring the platform is at par with current trends and disruptions.

What’s to Come in Wave 2 of Business Central Updates

In the Business Central release wave 2, there are some exciting updates that Microsoft has planned to launch. Let’s look at theBusiness Central updates that are going to be released until March 2023:

  • Enhanced reporting and other upgrades to the finance and supply chain fields to improve the usability and efficiency of products
  • Support for additional countries, making Business Central available to more than half of the countries worldwide
  • Updates to the AL language extension, new productivity tools for working with and debugging AL code, and other continued investments to make Visual Studio Code the ideal environment for developing AL applications
  • A new set of admin and governance capabilities to help secure, manage, regulate, and monitor customer environments.
  • Improvements to the integration between Business Central and other apps like Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate, and Dataverse
  • Improvements in the onboarding experience, making it simpler for customers to get started with Business Central in no time
  • Enhanced collaborative experiences, tools, and insights, empowering businesses to operate more efficiently
  • Better user experiences on desktop and mobile devices, which includes new UI design components and the ability to easily switch between companies across different environments
  • Enhancements to how one can work with Requisition Worksheet and Planning worksheet to enable flexible sorting on both pages by choosing a column name
  • Implementation of extended VAT clauses through which customers can enter additional text as extended text
  • Improved bank reconciliation by making it possible to match entries based on the check ledger, which gives a much higher degree of match confidence
  • Introduction of a new search option to find posted and non-posted document links on the homepage that allows easy access via original or filtered view
  • Better flexibility on how and when to post item charges like physical handling, freight, insurance, and transportation
  • Improved access of the Item Tracking Lines page to define serial numbers, lot, or package details for the job planning lines and speed up the actual consumption at later stages
  • Enhancements to how one works with Excel layouts by making it simpler to choose the excel layout in the report’s request page

Navigate Every Dynamics 365 Business Central Update

Keeping yourself abreast with the latest in the world of technology can be tough; especially when updates are so frequent and time-bound. If you want to keep up with the latest features and capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central, you need to make sure you implement and make the most of all of the improvements. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Synoptek can help you in keeping your Business Central deployment functional and always up to date. Contact us today!