>> Hello, my name is Angel Smallish,
I'm the Product Marketing Manager for
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
Thank you for taking time to view this video.
Here I provide a high level overview of what's new in
the October release of
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
Before I go into what's new in the fall release,
I want to briefly talk about the six value areas
of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
First, Finance and Operation has the breadth and depth of
our on-prem 2009 and 2012
applications that enable our customers to continue to
benefit from complete capabilities in our cloud offering,
which by the way, we continue
to add new functionalities too.
Continuous update.
Finance and Operations is
a Sass ERP solution that enables customers to use
the most current capabilities to drive
their innovation and growth
without the heavy cost of upgrades.
Customers will now be current on all updates.
With this continuous updates,
where providing evergreen ERP solution with
backward compatibility where this is the
last upgrade our customers need to make,
and they will take future updates
in the frictionless manner.
We provide customers a low code
no code extension model that
enables them to extend and
enhance to meet their specific needs,
including robust offering of
ISP solutions that are designed for finance and
operations to augment the out-of-the-box solution
that we offer to meet industry and vertical requirements.
Lifecycle services.
We provide a complete tool for
application life cycle management,
which enables self-service capabilities for
the cloud deployment options for users to
more easily manage our finance and operation environment.
NPS driven engineering.
We've always been listening to
feedback of our customers for
top-line business outcomes they come
to expect from finance and operations.
Now, we have enabled a listening system for all users to
provide us with the feedback that we in turn
use to continue to enhance the application.
So, we're not only looking at
the top line value that business leaders measure,
but to the user level metrics that drive
productivity and TCO on a daily task that they perform.
The best way to begin the journey
of successful transformation is to
strategically plan out upcoming rollouts
with business leaders and IT representatives.
Fast-track for Dynamics 365 is
our Customer Success Service that helps customers plan
for a successful rollout by accelerating
the deployment and user adoption
through best practices and guidance.
Customers can leverage our power platform,
including Power Apps, Microsoft Flow, Power BI,
App Source, to use low code
no code extensibility absence to
get the most out of their ERP solution.
The October 2018 release of Dynamics 365 for Finance and
Operations delivered over 55 new and enhanced capabilities
across these four themes,
including fundamentals, intelligence and insights,
connected processes, and core capabilities.
In this session, I only will
highlight some of the key capabilities.
For complete list and
description of what's new in the October release,
please refer to the release notes.
Fundamental updates.
First, starting from the bottom up approach,
we focus the making fundamental improvements,
we deliver significant enhancements
across usability, performance,
compliance and support that
improve the experience and productivity of the end-user.
Under the fundamentals theme,
we also provide extended global support that enables
businesses to run more
effectively with finance and operations.
Intelligence and insights.
We continue to put significant focus
in the area of intelligence and insights to offer
our customers real-time actionable insights and
intelligence that enable them to
proactively manage and grow their business globally.
Connected processes.
We offer seamless common data
service based process integrations
across Dynamics 365 portfolio of applications to
unleash intelligent business processes between
our front-end customer engagement and
back-end finance operations and retail applications.
We continue to invest in our core capabilities and
services by delivering
next-generation enhancements across finance,
manufacturing, retail, supply chain,
that offer an out-of-the-box
adaptable and extensible ERP solution.
Next, I'm going to delve a bit down and talk
about some of the key enhancements
for each of the key theme areas.
As I mentioned earlier,
we've added significant enhancements
under the fundamental theme.
I want to highlight some of
the key fundamental enhancements here.
We've added usability enhancements that enable
business users to easily view filters,
save, share, optimized view of data,
gaining productivity on their daily tasks.
Personalisation capabilities that empower users to add,
remove columns from grids, and hide fields,
to simplify and increase
the speed and accuracy of data entry.
In the warehouse management area,
we've added performance enhancements
for on-hand inventory reporting,
master planning, consolidations of
planned orders and warehouse operations.
We've also added upgrade automations
that enable customers to apply
major version upgrades on their own using
automated processes rather than
needing to perform Microsoft.
We further have test automation is to
put that allows administrators and
power users to run and manage
an automated tests regression suite
using the regression suite automation tool,
greatly reducing impact and cost of
validating updates to
the finance and operations environment.
Under the fundamentals theme,
we also added key global coverage enhancements,
including localization for UAE and Russia,
where global or regional customers with
offices in these countries can start using
finance and operations and be
supported with regulatory requirements.
Regulatory and Configuration Services that was in
public preview in the spring
Middle East is now generally available.
With this stand-alone service,
customers and partners can create
flexible configuration for regulatory viewports,
tax filing, invoicing and payment for mass to reports,
transmit or calculate
financial and operational transactions
in the required format,
rather than writing codes in multiple applications.
Customers are now- can use
a single regulatory configuration service to support
different versions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for
Finance and Operations and Microsoft Dynamics AX.
This service provides users no-code approach to
easily configure frequently changing
legal requirements for regulatory reports,
invoicing, payment formats, and tax rules.
Local data residency E-support,
where customers in Europe, Canada, UK,
and Australia data regions can opt for a fully
data resident online subscription
of finance and operations.
Now, I move into the intelligence Insights theme.
Some of the key enhancements for
the intelligence to insights theme include these;
the ability to edit analytical workspaces and the client.
Users can modify ready only
made on the local workspace including finance,
financial reports themselves without leaving
the client or hiring developers.
Users have the ability to extend analytical workspace by
mashing up external data with
Power BI or creating calculations.
Users can also bring their own database using Azure Data,
like in Power BI data pools,
combining the best features of
the entities store and their own data
into one service for
complete visibility into their business.
Users are also able to pin
Power BI dashboard to finance
an operation workspace and leverage
the dashboard that's rich in
visualization from different system
for a comprehensive visibility
into their business processes.
Last but not least under this theme,
for customers running Microsoft Dynamics 365
for Finance and Operations version 7.3,
8.0 or later, most analytical workspaces and
the embedded Power BI reports and the product are
updated in real-time with the updating the platform.
One of the most unique values of
Dynamics 365 is the ability to
easily integrate data across
Dynamics 365 portfolio of applications,
and Office 365, to
unleash intelligent business processes that
proactively guide employees and customers to
generate transformative business results.
In the fall release,
we'll continue to make deeper integrations of Finance and
Operations with Dynamics 365 fulfilled service,
projects service automation and talent,
powered through the Microsoft Common Data Service
to create impactful business outcomes,
providing users into invisibility
between the different applications they use.
Under the core capabilities thing,
we continue to invest adding
new and improved core capabilities
and services for finance and operations.
Some of the key enhancements
for the October release under
this theme include these; dual currency support,
where the reporting currency
becomes the second accounting currency,
it updates the general ledger processes and
tracks the reporting currency in fixed assets,
accounts receivable,
accounts payable, and bank management.
Enterprise credit management
provides capabilities to automate
credit control management process
for the accounting and financial professionals.
It proactively provide suggestions
of credit activities that improve cashflow,
reduce bad debts, and
provide new accounts risk management.
Revenue recognition that helps
accounting and finance professionals comply
with International Financial Report Standards or IFRS 15,
and Account Standards Codification or ASC 606,
in an automated way.
We've also incorporated public sector enhancements
that provide accounting and finance professionals,
improvements that include reporting inquiries,
new budgeting functionality,
vendor collaboration improvements and distribution
of interest accrued on their cash balances.
Note that enterprise credit management
and revenue recognition will be
available post the October first release
in a monthly update.
This was my update on what's new
in Finance and Operations for the fall release.
I hope you found this information useful.
We are transforming how we do service updates
for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
With an evergreen ERP solutions,
we're eliminating costly upgrades
and updates for customers that have
been the norm for traditional monolithic ERP solutions.
We're enabling our customers to focus
their system and precious resources
to leverage our latest capabilities
to innovate and grow their business.
We deliver two major releases
per year, April and October,
offering new capabilities and
functionalities within monthly updates in-between.
These updates will be backward compatible,
so your applications and
customization will continue to work post update.
As a next step,
I encourage you to check out
the URL provided to learn more about
Dynamics 365 for Finance and
Operations and try it for free for 30 days.
Thank you for watching.