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Microsoft Dynamics 365 2022 Release Wave 1
Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2022 Release Wave 1 is here, and it brings new innovations that provide significant capabilities to transform your business.
The Microsoft Dynamics 365 release contains hundreds of new features across Dynamics 365 applications, including Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Insights, Human Resources, Commerce, Fraud Protection, Business Central, Connected Spaces, Guides, Remote Assist, Customer Insights, Customer Voice, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Financial Services, Sustainability, and Nonprofit.
The Power Platform release contains new features for Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, AI Builder and Power Apps portals.
Microsoft will start rolling out these new features, starting April 1st, 2022. Check out the regional deployment schedule here.
What’s new with Field Service?
Dynamics 365 Field Service is a robust field service management application that makes it easier for companies and their technicians to navigate the complex and connected landscape of service operations. Dynamics 365 Field Service allows for a proactive, streamlined, and relational approach to servicing customer accounts.
Here’s some of the enhanced Field Service capabilities:
- Windows 10 support for Dynamics 365 Field Service mobile
- Dynamics 365 Field Service mobile usability enhancements
What’s new with Power Virtual Agents?
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents enables anyone within an organization to create low-code/no-code, AI-powered chatbots to interact with internal or external clients without the need of developers or data scientists. These chatbots allow employees to be more productive by freeing up resources that would otherwise be expended on relatively menial tasks. Furthermore, chatbots provide a faster customer service experience for the end-user.
Here’s some of the enhanced Power Virtual Agents capabilities:
- Use single sign-on with Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- Start bot conversations with proactive triggers
- Use connectors within Power Virtual Agents or author custom connectors
- Notify Microsoft Teams users about updates to their queries
- Create bots in Germany and United Arab Emirates datacenters
What is Dynamics 365?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a set of intelligent business applications that helps you run your entire business and deliver greater results through predictive, AI-driven insights. There are many applications to choose from, including:
- Intelligent sales and marketing
- Proactive customer service
- Connected field service
- Modern finance and operations
- Connected commerce
These Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications work seamlessly together for a comprehensive solution that runs your entire business in the cloud. You’ll get a 360-degree view of your organization to uncover the real-time insights that bring better results.
What is the Power Platform?
The Microsoft Power Platform is the low code platform that spans Office 365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and all Microsoft applications. It enables your business to craft solutions while empowering you to unite customized technology to help everyone, from the CEO to the front-line workers, drive the business with data.
The Microsoft Power Platform is comprised of four key products: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. There are also powerful cross cutting features to connect these four key products: AI Builder, Microsoft Dataverse and Data Connectors.
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We love to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions here at Beringer. We’ve been working with Microsoft Dynamics since its inception, and we’re always finding innovative ways to implement the latest tools and help automate business processes.
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