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survivingcrm: Catching the Wave 2 for 2019 Power Platform Updates
Источник: https://survivingcrm.com/2019/06/cat...tform-updates/
============== Today, June 10th, at Microsoft Business Application Summit 2019 the release plan for the next wave of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform features was announced. It’s of course no surprise that this main event of the year for #MSBizApps would be used as the forum for showing what’s coming next. What kind of did surprise myself was that we actually are already at a point when the focus starts to move to the upcoming release, formerly known as October 2019 release. Wasn’t April 2019 just a few weeks ago? Where did all the time go? And when exactly were we supposed to have taught ourselves all about the current release features, let alone deploy them to real life customers? ![]() If I had to guess what people working professionally with MS Business Applications would list as their biggest challenge, I bet keeping up the product updates would be on the number one spot – if only for the simple reason that it’s a topic that touches everyone regardless of their role. The pace of change on the technology side isn’t going to slow down, but it’s the breadth of impact from these changes that has grown immensely. The biannual release cadence in itself isn’t anything new, since that’s how the cloud service has been updated from already the Dynamics CRM 2011 days. It’s just that we’re no longer operating within that familiar CRM box, thanks to what Dynamics 365 and Power Platform have become. So, the release waves hit the shore on their steady cadence, but instead of a fun little beach break wave to surf on it may start to look like a tsunami that you should run away from. It’s not, and you shouldn’t, but this can be a very natural reaction when presented with a 350 page release plan document to plough through. Lucky for us, this time there’s also a streamlined version of this document, focusing solely on the Power Platform side. If you’re a #PowerAddict like me then this is probably the more exciting part to start from. So, we’ll leave all the first party app goodies for later and have a look at where & how the platform is heading to. Release Terminology Microsoft has now changed their official terminology on how they speak about these releases for Business Applications products. Instead of the earlier names like October 2018 Release, April 2019 Release, we’re now going to get release waves. Yes, still 2 times a year, so what we’ve now seen a peek of is 2019 Release Wave 2. Nothing actually changed about the process itself, but since the updates covered in these releases are not meant to be delivered on a single date (or one specific month), the terminology is now much better aligned with the reality. 2019 Release Wave 2 will be hitting the shores from October 2019 to March 2020. The other tweak in terminology is that now instead of Release Notes we’re getting a Release Plan from the product teams. This is also a much more natural way to describe the intent of the documentation that goes with a release wave. It’s not the exact description of what has been shipped, like you would have seen on a piece of software distributed on a DVD. Rather it’s a near term roadmap of what will be built and delivered, if everything goes as planned. Instead of a static document the Release Plan (and actually the current Release Notes, too) is a living publication reflecting the current status. Have a look at the change history for the current April 2019 release to get an idea of how much things have moved around since V1 of the Release Notes. ![]() AI Comes to Power Platform The biggest new announcement from 2019 Release Wave 2 is the arrival of the AI Builder. No, PowerApps didn’t become self-aware just yet, but it is nevertheless a major milestone to see the AI capabilities earlier provided via Azure Cognitive Services to now find their way into the citizen developer world of Power Platform tools. While the data scientists and pro-devs out there probably won’t be resorting to AI Builder in their own projects, the total addressable market for Microsoft’s AI services has now grown significantly thanks to these entry level AI features available in the PowerApps maker portal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Portals Become PowerApps Expanding from manual data entry forms to AI driven automation is one dimension through which Power Platform is growing its footprint. Another dimension that is of equal importance is opening up the apps to new audiences. As most of you probably know, you can’t use PowerApps Canvas or Model-driven apps to build a user interface that people outside your organization could be using. In 2019 Wave 2 there are a couple of features that will remove some limitations that exist today:
![]() Dynamics 365 CE and Portals go way back. In fact, I’d say that the original Adxstudio Portals product has probably been one of the prime examples of a commercialized XRM product offering, right up to the point when it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015. Back then I wrote a blog post called “XRM Strikes Back” and today when I’m re-reading my own text on the various different acquisitions done in the Dynamics product camp, it feels like I was sort of on the right track. Alongside Field Service (originally a FieldOne product), Portals are one of the few technologies that have survived the process of becoming a stable part of the Microsoft Business Applications stack. Yes, the offering has gone through a lot of architectural changes and the on-premises legacy had to be left behind, but it seems like it was worth it. ![]() ![]() Just like AI Builder aims to bring machine learning technologies to the hands of power users, PowerApps Portals are mainstreaming the technology for building public facing experiences on top of CDS data. Be sure to check out the blog posts from the Portals MVPs (OK, no such official category, but they really are) Colin Vermander and Nick Doelman to learn more about the impact of this announcement. There’s More… …Than could be covered in a single blog post. Sorry to disappoint you. Even though I’ve had a few days to browse through the 2019 Release Wave 2 documentation, it’s still hard to summarize what’s coming. In a way nothing is terribly surprising about where the Power Platform is heading in October 2019 and beyond, as this is very much in line with what Microsoft has communicated to us earlier. That also is a positive sign of the new level of transparency that the leadership team at MSFT has established as their standard, compared to the “aura of mystery” that sometimes surrounded Dynamics CRM product direction in the old days. Kudos to the team! OK, just one more thing, since you were gracious enough to read my blog post all the way through here. This Twitter Moment contains a few selected highlights from the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019 Day 1: 2019 Release Wave 2 for Dynamics 365 & Power Platform The post Catching the Wave 2 for 2019 Power Platform Updates appeared first on Surviving CRM. Источник: https://survivingcrm.com/2019/06/cat...tform-updates/
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