Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2

Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 overview

The applications that make up Microsoft Dynamics 365 make it possible for business users worldwide to run and optimize business processes, so that the company's resources are used as best as possible.

Microsoft has designed the Dynamics 365 applications so that they can be easily integrated and can work together without problems with each other and with the business applications that make up Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, as well as a large number of other systems and services.

In this way, the many different Microsoft business apps make it easy to create a unified and comprehensive solution that connects the entire company.

With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft brings new innovations and capabilities to Dynamics 365, giving business users completely new opportunities to transform and streamline business processes in their companies.

With the upgrade wave, Microsoft is releasing hundreds of brand new features and business capabilities across the many Dynamics 365 applications, including Business Central, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Project Operations, Finance and Operations cross-app functions, Human Resources, Commerce, Guides, and Customer Insights.

Dynamics 365 Business Central

In the Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 upgrades for Business Central, Microsoft has, among other things, focused on optimizing a number of core functionalities, for example by making it easier for companies to manage their intercompany and consolidations across environments.

The capabilities of the AI-based Dynamics 365 Copilot in Business Central have also been improved, so that users receive even more qualified help.

With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 also comes improvements to the storage capacity in Business Central, more Power Automate templates have been added and Business Central developers and consultants get even more possibilities to automate testing of dependent apps.

Read more about Business Central 2023 release wave 2.

Dynamics 365 Sales

With the Microsoft sales solution Dynamics 365 Sales, companies' sales departments are able to prioritize and manage a large number of digital sales processes with the help of improved sequence options.

With the Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 upgrade of Dynamics 365 Sales, it becomes easier to assign recommendations, summarize data, retrieve information and perform actions in the correct context and within the appropriate workflow. In this way, Microsoft has improved the possibilities for assigning leads and Dynamics 365 Sales users have a much better opportunity to both assign and monitor the status of lead assignment.

With improvements to the AI capacity Dynamics 365 Sales Copilot, Microsoft continues to innovate the way enterprise salespeople do their jobs. With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft continues to improve a number of generative AI features such as , sales email composition, email thread summarization, sales meeting summarization, real-time sales tips and so on.

Additionally, Microsoft is introducing further enhancements to collaboration areas in Microsoft Teams and a boost to the Copilot user experience, empowering the company's sales teams during the deal cycle to speed up the closing of sales deals and enable sellers to close their sales faster.

Finance og Supply Chain

Dynamics 365 Finance
With the Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 upgrades for Finance, Microsoft has focused on optimizing the visibility of companies' data, introduced improvements to the automation of AP (accounts payable) and account statements, and expanded out-of-the-box country coverage in LATAM (Latin America).

With the upgrade of Dynamics 365 Finance, further automation of complex tax scenarios and e-invoicing requirements for several countries is also introduced, so that companies have a better opportunity to expand their business models and thus become more agile and flexible.

Supply Chain Management
In Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft continues to improve and streamline a number of business processes, so that the flexibility and resilience that is a condition for companies to thrive in an increasingly complex and globalized business environment is implemented in the companies.

The sales and purchasing processes in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management are further improved, manufacturing companies get the opportunity for greater flexibility and warehouse processes connected to counting, returns to customers and product receipts are optimized.

Dynamics 365 Project Operations
With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft has invested in improving a number of scenarios for project contracts and procurement of services, and completely new functionality and new scenarios for price models will contribute in the new version of Project Operations to companies being better equipped to support new purchasing patterns in the service-centred economy.

In addition, the D365 2023 release wave 2 upgrades for Dynamics 365 Project Operations also brings improvements to the intelligent resource recommendations, which provide suggestions based on experience, cost and utilization between employees and subcontractors.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources
In the upcoming Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 upgrade of Microsoft's HR solution, the recruitment experience is improved with completely new features and an optimized user-friendliness, which is targeted at hiring managers, candidates and hiring managers.

In the upcoming upgrade wave, Microsoft is also expanding the HCM (Human Capital Management) area in Dynamics 365 Human Resources to include learning management system integration through public APIs leveraging Microsoft Dataverse along with expanding Microsoft's network of payroll partners.

Functions across finance and operations
Microsoft continues to invest in capabilities that cut across the finance and operations applications, including Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Dynamics 365 Project Operations and Dynamics 365 Commerce.

Dynamics 365 Marketing

The upgrades to Dynamics 365 Marketing contain, among other things, improvements to a number of functions of the AI-based Dynamics 365 Copilot, which gives the company's marketers opportunity to effectively create unique user experiences and until now unseen possibilities for user-customized email content, layout and images.

Dynamics 365 Service

Dynamics 365 Customer Service
With the improvements introduced with the Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 upgrade to Dynamics 365 Customer Service, including improvements to the AI-based Copilot features, Join Me on Teams, visual improvements to the customer service agent user interface, the ability to view live chat conversations and voice calls in the inbox and personalize the size of the conversation control, your service employees are given the opportunity to work even more efficiently.

Dynamics 365 Field Service
The enhancements to Field Service that Microsoft is introducing with Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2 include completely new capabilities for companies' frontline employees, service managers and coordinators. With the upgrade, Microsoft delivers several new features that have been requested by the solution's users, for example the ability to convert offers to work orders, improved inspections and development of the resource planning functions in Dynamics 365 Field Service.

Dynamics 365 Commerce

In Dynamics 365 Commerce, Microsoft uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make it easy for business users to efficiently and quickly create engaging and relevant product content for e-commerce.

With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft is introducing a number of new B2B investments in Dynamics 365 Commerce that allow distributors to view, accept and reject orders on a central dashboard, meaning that B2B sellers, distributors and buyers all have the opportunity to work on the same platform.

Dynamics 365 Guides

With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft is adding a wide range of new features and improvements to Dynamics 365 Guides, including Azure Remote Rendering, object anchors and availability in Government Community Cloud High.

In the new version of Guides, Microsoft is also introducing features aimed at making it easier to integrate with registration systems, so that Dynamics 365 Guides users can create mixed reality workflows that are integrated with their business data.

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights

With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, Microsoft has improved the capabilities of the AI-based Copilot in Customer Insights. This means that the possibilities for asking questions with simple words, gaining quick insight and, not least, reacting to this insight immediately, are improved in the new version.

In addition, completely new capabilities in real-time data management in Customer Insights will provide a current overview of your customers and it will be easier to access insights in other Dynamics 365 apps, allowing your team to deliver seamless and personalized customer experiences throughout the customer lifecycle .

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Center

With Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Center, it is possible to achieve a robust supply chain. With Dynamics 365 2023 release wave 2, a large number of improvements and new features are introduced in core areas such as Intelligent Order Management for PO (process orchestration) orchestration, smooth collaboration with external partners via the Supplier Portal and the AI-based copilot. In addition, Advanced Data Analytics is added to activate Insights to Action as well as completely new functionality for optimizing network storage.