This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.
The 1st of the new functionality in the Copilot and AI innovation section is introduce Power Automate Copilot integration with Business Central.
Copilot is the AI-powered work assistant that boosts creativity and improves productivity for small and medium-sized organizations.
Building Power Automate flows without predefined templates can be a mundane and complicated process. With Copilot in Power Automate, this process is much smoother because flows can be built based on just the natural language input from the user.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2024
General Availability: –
Feature Details
This feature integrates Copilot in Power Automate with Business Central, so that you can start creating automation flows based on natural language. When such flows are opened in Power Automate for further refinement, you can take advantage of the Copilot experience in Power Automate.
Copilot in Power Automate allows open-ended and conversational experiences while authoring flows that use your Business Central data. You can ask questions and get assistance to improve and change those flows. Copilot stays with you in your flow and helps you build, set up, and run an automation on your behalf through a comfortable chat experience. Copilot takes your input and provides either documentation, links, or answers in the Copilot chat pane. But most important, it makes changes to the structure of the flow based on your natural language description.
This feature helps you streamline business processes and improve productivity by shortening the path to automation.
Note
- This feature is available as a production-ready preview for production and sandbox environments in any country localization, with the exception of Canada. Production-ready previews are subject to supplemental terms of use. For more information, see Supplemental terms of use for Dynamics 365 preview.
- This feature needs to be enabled in Feature Management.
- While in preview, this feature is available in English only. When using other languages, users must change their language from My Settings to experience this feature.
- AI-generated content may be incorrect.
Tell them what you think
Microsoft are excited to have you with them on their Copilot journey.
Help them improve Dynamics 365 Business Central by discussing ideas, providing suggestions, and giving feedback. Use the forum at aka.ms/bcIdeas, or join the discussion on the Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Viva Engage network (formerly Yammer) to help them shape the future of AI in Business Central.
Geographic areas
This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:
- Germany
- Norway
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- South America
- India
- Japan
- France
- Korea
My Opinion
I’ve had a go with some of the Copilot available in Power Automate already and haven’t been too impressed with its ability to understand requests and produce a useful flow. It will be interested to see how this has been improved with this functionality.
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