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Business Central 25

Business Central 24 has almost just been released, but already now Microsoft has started to unveil some of the new features and possibilities that will be available in Business Central 25, which will be released with the Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 2 in October.

AI-powered business operations

By improving efficiency, decision-making and customer experience, among other things, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is revolutionizing the way companies do business, and many companies are already using AI to automate routine tasks, so that employees can instead focus on more strategic activities.

It is already clear that Microsoft, also with Business Central 25, has a great focus on improving the application with AI technology, including by expanding the Microsoft Copilot functions.

Finance

• Improvements of collections
• Regulatory requirements

Supply chain

• Project and service optimizations
• Field Service integration for Service administration

Generative AI

• Create orders from Chat
• Page summary
• Payment Reconciliation
• Improved matching of E-documents
• Drag and drop in the prompt dialog box
• Late Payment Prediction (New Model)
• 3rd party knowledge bases
• More languages
• And much more to come ...

Reporting

• Power BI apps
• Embedded Power BI pages
• Improved Report Explorer
• More Excel Layout reports
• Improvements to Data Analysis
• Improvements to Document Reporting
• Sustainability Role Center and Goals

World class service

With a focus on increased availability, improved performance, higher stability, optimized resource management, as well as improved security and compliance, Microsoft will also strengthen the basic service in Business Central 25.

Geographic expansion

• Even more countries added

User experience

• Share errors details with Power Automate
• Actionable permissions errors

Power Platform

• Additional Power Automate templates
• More data and business events exposed

Fundamentals

• Performance - Easier profiling
• Scalability
• Reliability
• High avalability

Efficient development

• No friction in testing app dependencies

Administration

• Flexible update management
• Comprehensive Admin Center app management
• Auditing in Microsoft Purview

Acceptance testing with the page script tool

Now you get the opportunity to optimize flexibility and reduce costs in connection with acceptance testing.

By allowing customers and consultants to easily record and play back user acceptance tests directly in the Business Central web client, new feature in Business Central 25 will transform end-user testing from an annoying and time-consuming process that just has to be done to an effortless and seamless automated one process.

By performing acceptance testing with the page script tool, you can:

• Gain a higher confidence to handle change effortlessly
• Optimize test quality by increasing test coverage and test agility
• Get lower operating and maintenance costs