Microsoft Business Forward 2018 Event and Spring Wave for Dynamics 365

The public launch of the Dynamics 365 Spring Wave was at the Microsoft Business Forward event in Amsterdam on March 21st, 2018. Here are some highlights from the event, shared over on Twitter with the #MSBusinessFwd and #MSDyn365 hashtags. (If you’re viewing this post on Dynamics Community page then you might want to visit the original post on Surviving CRM site to see the embedded content.)

There’s A LOT to chew on in this release and there’s literally 10+ blog posts released today by Microsoft, spanning from traditional Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement team blog to PowerApps to even Power BI. You can start drilling down into this wealth of new information from the announcement by James Phillips: Accelerating digital transformation with the spring 2018 release for Dynamics 365 and Business Application Platform.

#MSBusinessFwd is about to start. Great Location! Looking forward to #MSDyn365BC session by @mpdynamics365 today. pic.twitter.com/k9BoBwVPaq

— Christoph Eberz (@ChristophEberz) March 21, 2018

More than 700 gathered in Dubrovnik at #extreme365 to watch Business Forward live from Amsterdam #MSBusinessfwd #Dyn365 #MSPartner pic.twitter.com/hY36woRS0Q

— Christy Spokely (@ChristySpokely) March 21, 2018

Hundreds of new features #MSDyn365: @JamesMPhillips announcing the spring 2018 release for Dynamics 365 and Business Application Platform: https://t.co/kW646DAf42

— Mohamed Mostafa (@MIMCRM) March 21, 2018

#PowerApps Spring release announcement: https://t.co/EEwwEb3em1 – Bringing the power of #MSDyn365 to PowerApps 💪 #MSBusinessFwd

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

New "Common Data Service for Apps": https://t.co/KbSn9ueiWF – #CDS is now merged with #MSDyn365 Customer Engagement platform a.k.a. #XRM #MSBusinessFwd pic.twitter.com/pwEGu1xJut

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Everyone stop talking about xRM #CDS #CDSforAnalytics #CDSforApps pic.twitter.com/8o52yI8xZK

— Mark Smith 🇳🇿 (@nz365guy) March 21, 2018

It's happening! 👏Spring Wave ’18 #MSDyn365 update for 9.x customers from April 7. The upgrade with be automatic and scheduling is needed. Check out the release notes – https://t.co/hnz49kaQOX

— Scott Durow #ProCodeNoCodeUnite (@ScottDurow) March 21, 2018

"#PowerApps P2 officially becomes the new platform SKU, moving away from being a admin and maker focused plan to becoming THE plan for users of stand-alone model driven apps." The #XRM SKU you've been asking for #MSDyn365

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Common Data Service for Analytics: https://t.co/cHGREzSGp4 – Yes, even #PowerBI is going #CDS with the #MSDyn365 Spring Wave #MSBusinessFwd pic.twitter.com/hscy9qSMTD

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Digital transformation defined by Microsoft in #MSBusinessFwd – Key is to implement Digital feedback loop #extreme365 #MSDyn365 pic.twitter.com/gHcMzrXlBS

— Heikki Alho (@HeikkiAlho) March 21, 2018

"Business apps have been the same thing since forever. Record keeping systems, systems of oppression." @JamesMPhillips showing the way forward with modern #MSDyn365 biz apps at #MSBusinessFwd pic.twitter.com/gT5aFsrz0z

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Demonstration of the intelligent business applications that you can build with #MSDyn365 and #Azure, courtesy of @ryandarbymartin at #MSBusinessFwd event #MSBizApps pic.twitter.com/1hU2WHaXfj

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Nice to see the Field Service demo, Connected with IoT and #Hololens #MSBusinessFwd #extreme365 pic.twitter.com/iYagFhK27l

— Jeroen Stutterheim (@jstutterheim) March 21, 2018

Making @MicrosoftFlow enterprise grade: https://t.co/QRz3zrXhzg – Spring release of #MSDyn365 & #CDS taking #MicrosoftFlow capabilities forward, incl. #GDPR support pic.twitter.com/kkGdSu2T9M

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Modern Approvals powered by #MicrosoftFlow, demonstrated by @rc_says at #MSBusinessFwd. Now a part of the #MSDyn365 story with the platform merge of #XRM and #CDS pic.twitter.com/vMKtaPHSA1

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Start building model-driven #PowerApps on the new #CDS, powered by #MSDyn365 CE (ex-XRM): https://t.co/zjaPdnW2gp pic.twitter.com/uG5NJunM3h

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018

Worth reading this other post from @PowerApps to understand how the existing PowerApps are now called canvas apps and the new model driven apps are in reality the #Dynamics365 CE apps model https://t.co/RbqdzaY4ks

— Marco Amoedo (@marcoamoedo) March 21, 2018

"This is now the platform that all of our #MSDyn365 apps are natively built on." Demo of #PowerApps canvas authoring experience on top of #CDS at #MSBusinessFwd event. pic.twitter.com/1BmOtkeVmN

— Jukka Niiranen mstdn.social/@jukkan (@jukkan) March 21, 2018