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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

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Business Central data questions

GA · 2 min in 2 videos · dev relevance low · documented as Enable Microsoft Copilot chat experience medium match

Business Central data questions

Copilot searches Business Central data with the user's context, permissions and company, for example most urgent sales orders. It also analyzes sales data, such as the least sold items, and suggests actions.

Area: Copilot and agents. Status: GA. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 2 min across 2 videos, demoed.

Status evidence

  • Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 2:10 "Copilot reasons over data. It might It might take a little bit longer." - Notes that data analysis answers can take longer than simple questions.
  • 2:11 "data coming from documentation, from internet and also with the context of Business Central" - Lists the sources used for answers in the first demo.
  • 2:30 "It has access to my context, my permissions and my company." - Explains how Copilot scopes the data it searches in Business Central.
  • 3:11 "This scenario might be very useful for sales people working with Business Central." - Names the target user group for the sales analysis scenario.

Caveats mentioned

  • Reasoning over data can take a little longer

Documented features match

  • Enable Microsoft Copilot chat experience - medium confidence (llm). Docs say: Public preview, roadmap id 573362. Capability of new Copilot chat
  • Product documentation: Work with Business Central data in Microsoft Copilot, checked 2026-10-02. Show me my five most urgent open sales orders... Which items sold the least in the last three months and still have inventory on hand? Note: Article is marked prerelease / production-ready preview documentation for the new Microsoft Copilot in Business Central (version 29).

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: copilot, sales, data, reporting, chat, permissions

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.