June 30, 2021

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1 Features to Get Excited About

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New features! New functionality! New ways to work better, faster, smarter!

  • Perform better through increased business visibility and knowledge-sharing with anytime, anywhere access for anyone.
  • Adapt faster using flexible deployment options and innovative solutions that allow you to migrate to the cloud with confidence.
  • Work smarter with connectivity between Office 365, Teams, and your business systems to improve productivity across the board.

That's what you'll find in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1 that spans the period from April 2021 to September 2021.

Better with Microsoft 365 because In Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1, the efficiency of collaborative business processes in Microsoft Teams has been improved, and the Excel and Outlook add-ins have been added.

Faster because the onboarding process has been improved in the Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1, so customers can get to productive usage faster.

Smarter because with every new semi-annual release, Microsoft incorporates feedback gathered from numerous community channels and user studies to identify the enhancements most needed for improved performance, usability, and printing.

Dive Deeper with More BI

Proactively inform and guide employees with analytics and insights available within the flow of work in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Access business intelligence (BI) where and when you need it, with real-time dashboards and KPIs for each user role.

Enhancements to Administration

The 2021 Release Wave 1 delivers a set of features designed to simplify and improve the way your partner administers your tenant and the way administrators manage licensing and permissions. In addition, this release wave brings improvements to the administration center and permissions management.

Application Enhancements

With Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1, Microsoft delivers features for some of the most requested areas for improvement, such as banking, payments, and continued improvements to performance.

Dive Deeper into Dimensions

Dimensions can now be used throughout the application, and it is simple and easy to add an unlimited number of dimensions. However, until now, it has been difficult to correct errors if a user-specified the wrong dimension. So, with this release wave, you can correct dimensions for G/L entries to make sure that your financial reporting gives you the insights that you want without having to make notes of temporary data entry mistakes.

Modern Development Tools

The latest releases have moved the base application to AL, improved the debugging experience, and delivered significant internal work on stability and how to handle extensions. Microsoft also delivered new language capabilities such as interfaces, and they continue investing in developer productivity and asks from the community. This current release targeted report extensibility, which was the top-voted ask from the user community for Business Central.

The 2021 Release Wave 1 also brings improvements to performance in VS Code, extension lifecycle telemetry for ISVs, additional interface functionality, and automation and streamlining of the process for submitting apps to AppSource.

Also, the upgrade process has been improved to include validation of per-tenant extensions, reducing unnecessary upgrade failures, and alerting app publishers about extensions that will be impacted by a future upgrade sooner for a more seamless upgrade experience.

MReady365 is Ready When You Are

We're ready for whatever you need. Migration, implementation, integration, upgrade, support. You name it, and the MReady365 team will get right on it!



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