Let’s keep talking about the Release Wave announcements and focus on the new features for Dataverse!
Microsoft Dataverse, as a low-code data platform, continues to evolve, enabling users to build scalable and interconnected applications, automations, and agents. With the Power Platform 2024 Release Wave 1, Dataverse received many enhancements aimed at empowering users with increased agility, scalability, and efficiency in managing their data-driven solutions.
Microsoft Dataverse serves as the backbone of the Power Platform, providing a robust foundation for building and deploying applications, automations, and agents. Through its common data model, security features, and business logic capabilities, Dataverse enables organizations to harness the full potential of their data assets while ensuring compliance and security.
Keep in mind that the enhancements and features introduced in Dataverse are tailored to enrich the functionality and usability of custom model-driven apps or Dynamics 365 first-party apps. These updates aim to elevate user experiences and streamline workflows within these applications. Additionally, depending on the specific feature, these advancements may extend to canvas apps that leverage Dataverse data, offering enhancements that boost their capabilities and performance.
Key Features and Enhancements
- Build Your Low-Code, Hyperscale Backend on Dataverse
- Dataverse undergoes significant acceleration in low-code experiences for apps built on the platform. Makers can now create reusable low-code business logic cataloged within Dataverse, facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing across the organization.
- Reusable actions can be created by copy-pasting Power Fx logic from canvas apps into Dataverse actions or by calling connector actions, thereby maximizing the value of maker investments and enhancing organizational productivity.
- Data Ingestion in Microsoft Dataverse
- Dataverse enhances its data ingestion capabilities, leveraging AI-assisted enhancements to enable customers to ingest large volumes of data reliably and at scale.
- These enhancements reinforce Dataverse’s position as the most secure, hyperscale, and compliant SaaS data platform for customer data, empowering users to derive accurate insights from their data assets effortlessly.
- Empower Users with Copilot and Your Enterprise Data
- Across Microsoft, there is a concerted effort to empower users with copilot experiences, leveraging business data and large language models (LLMs) to increase productivity.
- Integration across Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365 enables users to optimize outputs by federating data across Dataverse and Microsoft Graph, enhancing collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Enterprise Data Activation
- Natural language capabilities are leveraged to accelerate app development on Dataverse, enabling enterprises to unlock more value from their data investments.
- Scenarios such as natural language to table, Excel to table, and natural language to Dataverse actions facilitate faster app development and enhance user productivity.
- Microsoft 365 Collaboration
- Dataverse powers collaboration capabilities across Microsoft 365 products, including integrations with Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, and Teams.
- Seamless integration enables users to collaborate effectively without switching between applications, streamlining communication and workflow management.
In addition to the broader enhancements in Microsoft Dataverse, it’s important to highlight several specific features that significantly enhance the platform’s functionality and usability.
Maintain Security Role Privileges for Better ALM Solution Import
Previously, updates to security roles and privileges in managed partner solutions could potentially overwrite changes made by Power Platform admins in their environments. With this new feature, the system will intelligently merge predefined and customizable security roles and privileges with any updates made by admins, ensuring smoother solution imports and better alignment with organizational security requirements.
Mask Sensitive Data and Fields Using Column-level Security
To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information, admins can now employ column-level security to mask sensitive fields and prevent bulk exports of sensitive data. This feature provides granular control over data access, allowing admins to grant specific privileges to selected users while ensuring sensitive fields remain masked by default, with each access audited for enhanced security monitoring.
Share Apps and Data Access Modernization
Streamlining app sharing processes, this feature enables makers to easily share their apps and specify permission levels for table access without leaving the Power Apps environment. By integrating security role creation directly into the app sharing experience, makers can efficiently manage data access permissions, enhancing collaboration and accessibility across the organization.
Share System Views with Security Role
Admins now have the ability to tailor system views based on security roles, ensuring users only see relevant views aligned with their access permissions. By selecting appropriate system views for respective user roles, admins can streamline user experiences, minimizing clutter and improving usability within the platform.
Associate Activities with Multiple Related Records
Expanding the capabilities of activity records, users can now associate activities such as emails, appointments, tasks, and calls with multiple related party records. This feature enhances data linkage and improves context within the platform, allowing users to seamlessly connect activities with various related entities such as accounts, contacts, leads, and opportunities.
These features underscore Microsoft’s commitment to empowering users with advanced data management and security capabilities within Microsoft Dataverse, enabling organizations to build scalable and secure solutions tailored to their unique business needs.
The Power Platform 2024 Release Wave 1 brings forth a wave of innovations and enhancements to Microsoft Dataverse. With increased agility, scalability, and efficiency, Dataverse empowers organizations to build and deploy intelligent solutions, driving digital transformation and unlocking new opportunities for growth and innovation.
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