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Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive all-in-one business management application developed by Microsoft and part of the Dynamics 365 business platform. Business Central is designed for small and medium-sized companies, but can in practice be used by all types of companies, regardless of size and industry. With Business Central, you have an effective tool to automate, streamline and monitor a wide range of different business processes in your company, including financial management, supply chain management (SCM), manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, HR, project management, service, sales and more.

Business Central is known for having a high degree of scalability and adaptability, which means you don't have to worry about your business outgrowing the solution. Through the implementation of apps from independent software vendors (ISVs), also called extensions, which are easily downloaded from the AppStore, it is easy to adapt Business Central to the unique business needs of the individual company, specific industry or regional requirements.

With a fast implementation process and user-friendly configuration and user interface, as a user you clearly feel that Microsoft with Business Central prioritizes simplicity in product design, development, implementation and user-friendliness.

What's new in Business Central 24 2024 release wave 1

With Business Central 24, which Microsoft releases in connection with the Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1 upgrade wave, it is clear that Microsoft has once again prioritized optimizing Copilot, which means that the AI capabilities in the new version of Business Central are raised to the next level. By enhancing the AI-based Copilot, Business Central enables users to optimize their work processes and work more efficiently, speeding up task completion.

Already, GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code has improved developer productivity, and no doubt further improvements and new innovation will come to these top-tier development tools for AL developers. In addition, Microsoft has made it easier for developers to enrich application metadata with more detail, improving the Copilot experience.

With the many new functions and new options Microsoft introduces with Business Central 24, it becomes even easier for companies to conduct business efficiently and flexibly.

The solution provides the ability to automate a number of regulatory tasks and helps the business stay compliant with various government regulations. In this way, Business Central contributes to ensuring that you, as a manager and decision-maker, can keep the focus on the primary business.

As always, ease of use is also in focus, and with Business Central 24, efficiency is increased with choice-conscious and context-based actions.

With Business Central 24, which Microsoft releases in connection with Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1, Microsoft introduces a number of new features and improvements to the application.

Overview of Business Central 24

With Dynamics 365 2024 Release Wave 1 and the release of Business Central 24, Dynamics 365 Business Central is enhanced in a number of areas, including:

AI-based innovation and Dynamics 365 Copilot

With the cutting-edge AI-based technology in Dynamics 365 Copilot at their side, Business Central users are empowered to streamline their work processes by reducing repetitive tasks in their daily work. With Business Central 2024 release wave 1, Microsoft is expanding Copilot capabilities to increase productivity for even more business roles.

Faster adaptation with Power Platform

To simplify the setup of workflows in Business Central, Microsoft introduces with Business Central 24 even more templates that out of the box support more business scenarios. This enhancement allows you to automate even more business processes, increasing the efficiency and productivity of Business Central users.

Application Improvements

In Dynamics 365 2024 Release Wave 1, Microsoft has significantly improved the project and service management capabilities of Business Central. In addition, the area of finance and financial management has been improved with an optimization of the consolidation experience.

Country and regions

By expanding the global reach of Business Central, the application is now available to businesses in over 155 countries and regions.

Improvements for developers

Microsoft continues to invest in areas that improve the productivity of developers working with GitHub, Visual Studio Code, and the AppSource marketplace. They also add new code refactoring capabilities that provide an easy path to functional and performance testing and ISV and custom code with AL GO to GitHub.

Management and administration

Microsoft is introducing additional self-service capabilities for Business Central that allow administrators to manage access to environments in greater detail. Critical administrator actions can now be audited using the Microsoft 365 Audit Log, which offers robust capabilities to strengthen data protection through customer-managed encryption keys and Azure Lockbox.

Compliance with legislation

With Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1, Microsoft introduces in Business Central 24 capabilities for accessing VAT dates when you preview the results of posting transactions. Business Central 2024 Release Wave 1 also introduces the Sustainability Journal, which will help you with sustainability reporting.

Analysis of data and reporting

With Business Central 24, Microsoft is adding more options to Analysis mode, and in the new version, Power BI and Excel layouts will be operational and ready to use.

Service and platform

With a focus on high availability, increased performance, improved stability, optimized resource management, as well as better security and compliance, Microsoft has also invested in the basic service in Business Central in this version.

New functions and possibilities in Business Central 24

Below you will find an overview of the many new functions and possibilities in Business Central that Microsoft is introducing in connection with the rollout of Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1, where the many new functions will be released in the period from April 2024 to October 2024.

The release of the new updates that make up Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1 will continue until October 2024. The previous release wave will continue until March 2024. For an overview of this release wave, go to Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 release wave 2.

Fast adaptation with Power Platform

To get the most out of Business Central and open up completely new business scenarios, in Dynamics 365 2024 Release Wave 1 Microsoft also continues  to invest in creating a seamless user experience for customers who use Business Central together with Power BI, Power Automate or Power Apps.

Application Improvements

As always, the core application functionality is an important area of investment for Microsoft. It is the broad core functionality that helps companies optimize their daily business processes and workflows. Microsoft has also with Business Central 2024 release wave 1 listened to their business partners and customers to ensure that the new Functions delivered are also what they need to increase their productivity with each release.

AI and Copilot

With Business Central 24, which is released with Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1, Microsoft extends the Copilot capabilities of Dynamics 365, and thus Business Central, and improves the AI-generated marketing text, which increases productivity for several of the company's business roles.

Countries and regions

With Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 1, Business Central becomes generally available in even more countries and regions worldwide.

Improvements for developers

For the benefit of both end customers and partners, Microsoft has a strong focus on making Business Central AL developers more productive and empowering consultants, self-taught developers and users to do more while lowering the cost of customizations and changes.

Administration and management

With Business Central, Microsoft is adding 24 brand new management tools and enhancing existing tools so administrators can manage environments, apps and data migrations.

Compliance with legislation and regulations

With Business Central 2024 release wave 1, Microsoft is introducing a number of new regulatory possibilities that can act as a foundation for more specific requirements in local Business Central versions.

Analysis of data and reporting

Having direct access to the right reports and data analysis functions is essential for the company's decision makers who want to have control over the company's business processes and operations as well as the ability to identify new growth opportunities.
 

Improved user experience

An even better user experience (UX) helps Business Central users enter, update and correct errors in their data in an easy and intuitive way.

Information about table descriptions

Here you will find information about the meaning of the descriptions in the tables.

Function

Description of the new function that is released in Dynamics 365 Business Central 24.

Available for

Description of which type of user the new function is available for.

• Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are activated automatically.
• Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are intended to be used by administrators, developers, marketers or business analysts and is activated automatically
• Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These functions must be enabled or configured by administrators, developers or business analysts to be available to their users.

Public preview

In the 'Public preview' column, it is indicated in which month the function is released as a publicly available trial version. The release date can be any day of that month.

General availability

In the 'General availability' column, it is indicated in which month the function is released. The release date can be any day of the specified month.