It’s not Christmas any more… It’s not our birthday… so why are we so excited?
It might be because Release Wave 1 is here, one of the biggest events on the Microsoft calendar, where Microsoft announce all the upcoming features for their SaaS products over the next six months (when they then do the same thing again for Release Wave 2).
Each wave is carefully phased, with specific release dates assigned to ensure system administrators can manage changes efficiently.
Early access previews allow organizations to test and adapt before updates reach general availability, giving you time to prepare and provide valuable feedback to Microsoft.
Today we’ll be guiding you through the key highlights of Release Wave 1, 2025 for Dynamics 365 Finance… what’s ready for testing now and what’s moving to general availability soon.
D365 Finance (in fact finance in general) is always going to be a central part of any organization’s success.
Microsoft have been adding a lot of AI into the mix to not only increase the productivity of an organization, but the ability to view deep insights on data for faster decision-making.
Release Wave 1 sees them strengthening their autonomous financial application goals by bringing additional Copilot and agentic capabilities to you, whilst also strengthening the core offering, setting the foundation for end-to-end automation and Copilot experiences.
Wave 1 will see more previews of the account reconciliation agent, shifting the entire process from end of period to a systematic, real-time experience.
They’re also introducing a new journal framework, bringing additional control, hyper-scale and multicompany capabilities to both the entry and import experience. Modern bank reconciliation and automation continue to be enhanced to reach deeper capabilities based on user feedback.
All of the new features and user experience enhancements have been designed with a Copilot first approach, using it to offer deep insights across documents in the application, gain insights into fixed assets book, help with increasing automation in bank reconciliation and reduce the manual work involved in managing taxes and applying regulatory updates.
You can expect all of the below releases any time between now, right through to Sep 2025 (Release Wave 1) although some dates and details will on occasion change if you’re reading this a few months after we publish!
Not sure if this will affect you or how to make sure you’ll benefit from it come April?
Perhaps after reading this you’d like more information on Dynamics 365 Finance (we would after reading this!).
Reach out below and we’d be happy to talk over how Release Wave 1 could benefit your organization…
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