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Dynamics 365 Finance 2025 release wave 1
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Increasing the frequency of data refreshes in Business performance analytics enhances its business value by providing more timely and accurate insights. This improvement accelerates the month-end close process and enhances reporting accuracy, enabling quicker decision-making and better financial management. As a result, businesses can respond more swiftly to changing conditions, optimize performance, and maintain a competitive edge.
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Increasing the frequency of data refreshes in Business performance analytics supports two updates per day at general availability. Future releases will further enhance this feature by enabling more frequent refresh cycles. This capability allows users to make faster, data-driven decisions based on the most current information available, solving the issue of outdated data. Incremental data processing will be implemented, ensuring only new or changed data is processed, which reduces the time required for updates. This improvement will enhance operational efficiency, provide real-time analytics, and enable stakeholders to access the latest data. More frequent updates will drive better strategic planning, business agility, and responsiveness to market changes, thereby supporting continuous business growth and adaptability.
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The managed extensibility of data models in Business performance analytics significantly enhances its business value by offering customers the flexibility to seamlessly integrate data from Dynamics 365 extensions and proprietary sources.
This feature allows for a more comprehensive and customized data analysis, ensuring that all relevant information is included in decision-making processes. By enabling easy integration of additional data, businesses can achieve deeper insights, improved accuracy in reporting, and tailored analytics that meet specific business needs. This adaptability drives better strategic planning, operational efficiency, and supports continuous growth and innovation.
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By incorporating placeholder fields and empty star schemas, customers can map their unique fields, enabling customized and tailored analytics. This approach allows businesses to extend the BPA model to meet specific needs, facilitating deeper insights and more relevant reporting.
Enabled within Business performance analytics and a customer's Fabric license, this feature addresses the issue of extending the Business performance analytics data model written off Dynamics 365 finance and operations data to conform to additional data sources in Fabric. Ultimately, managed extensibility fosters a highly adaptable analytics environment, supporting personalized decision-making and driving business growth through tailored data integration.
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When the Enable financial tags for purchase order invoicing feature is enabled, customers can use the financial tag to track the subledger data with purchase order numbers and vendor names instead of using financial dimensions. This helps reduce the performance issue during the analysis phase.
Feature Details
Financial tags support user-defined fields across various transactions and financial documents in procurement-to-pay processing. Organizations can create and enter up to 20 customizable fields on transactions, stored on accounting entries. When the feature is enabled, it applies to the following transactions and documents:
- Purchase order and accounting distributions on purchase orders
- Product receipt journal
- Pending vendor invoice and accounting distribution in pending vendor invoices
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The prepayment sales invoice feature streamlines the invoicing process for customers who make prepayments (advance payments). It helps businesses manage their cash flow more effectively by accurately recording and tracking prepayments. Overall, the prepayment sales invoice optimizes financial operations, increases efficiency, reduces risk, and contributes to the overall success of the business.
Feature Details
The prepayment invoice feature provides an option to issue an invoice against prepayment sales order lines. Payment is collected against a prepayment invoice before delivery of goods or services. Ultimately, the prepayment invoice is reconciled and settled with the final invoice. This makes sure that all payments are posted against an invoice.
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| General availability date updated to Jun 2025 | Apr 16, 2025 |
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Ability to schedule bank foreign currency revaluation through process automation in Dynamics 365 Finance ensures accuracy and time efficiency.
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Dynamics 365 Finance now supports the automation of Bank Foreign Currency Revaluation (FCR), ensuring that foreign currency balances are consistently updated. This enhancement significantly reduces the risk of errors and discrepancies in financial reporting.
Users can schedule revaluation processes to occur on specific dates and according to defined parameters. These processes run in the background, allowing users to focus on other tasks and review the results as needed.
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Stay ahead of regulatory changes with our update of the Payment Times Reporting Scheme (PTRS) in Australia to the new rules. For reporting periods starting on or after July 1, 2024, this update ensures compliance with the latest Payment Times Reporting Scheme (PTRS) requirements.
Feature Details
This feature update enables reporting companies in Australia to comply with the revised Payment Times Reporting Scheme rules that apply to reporting periods starting on or after July 1, 2024.
- Refined logic to prepare datasets: capture, filter, and classify payment data in accordance with the latest PTRS rules.
- Introduces standardized reporting format aligned with the revised PTRS reporting requirements.
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