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title: Business Central Launch Event 2025 Release Wave 1 - Recording of Live Opening
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  - agentic framework
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  - copilot autofill
  - copilot summarize
  - sustainability emissions
  - powerbi reports
  - shopify integration
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    quote: all of this is now available for you to try in the priv in the public preview and we have expanded this p public
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    quote: So that's uh coming in business central right now. If we talk about coming uh in business central it's in private preview
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    quote: Later this year, you're going to see a public preview of that agent being able to process these invoices
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    quote: One of the things we released uh recently uh as you can see here, one of them is um the capability for example to
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    quote: Hot of the press, it's less than an hour ago that we actually shipped Business Central 2025 release wave 1.
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    quote: we actually have 60 plus videos byite-sized for you guys at home. And we have an amount of 10 hours that you guys can
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    quote: we talk about the sales order agent. And that was the number of agents spun up by you trying it out in the very
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    quote: the sales order agent is going to many more countries around the world. So it's gone into Canada, United States, Australia, Great Britain, New
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    quote: The a the agent is going to be uh monetized in a consumption unit which is called message.
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    quote: this was just the beginning of Business Central agentic story. So, we're moving beyond the first agent already now.
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    quote: the payables agent has taken that information and used AI to first of all put the design on an allocation account allocating between design
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    quote: So that's uh coming in business central right now. If we talk about coming uh in business central it's in private preview
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    quote: it now uh takes care of water and waste in this release but also the most important uh scope 3 emissions which are the
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    quote: There's 60 countries around the world right now that mandates um electronic document exchange. 20 more coming uh soon
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    quote: you can now block the output of uh production orders so that you don't produce items that you basically stop selling that was not
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    quote: subscription billing um was just released. So we got some feedback, a little bit of the terminology. We don't call it service anymore
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    quote: One of the things that we're missing which is now as you can see soon coming. It's coming in one of the minor releases
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    quote: it's very important of course to have a great integration to field service because field service uh frontline workers um as it says material
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    quote: It's basically expanded by 100% uh with this release meaning that we are now describing every feature area of Business Central.
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    quote: This is a really critical process for so many organizations out there.
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    quote: with this release, additional capabilities were included with Business Central which allows you for example to do iterative adjustments
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    text: we actually have 60 plus videos byite-sized for you guys at home. And we have an amount of 10 hours that you guys can
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    text: all of this is now available for you to try in the priv in the public preview and we have expanded this p public
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    text: the sales order agent is going to many more countries around the world. So it's gone into Canada, United States, Australia, Great Britain, New
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    text: The a the agent is going to be uh monetized in a consumption unit which is called message.
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    text: this was just the beginning of Business Central agentic story. So, we're moving beyond the first agent already now.
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    text: the payables agent has taken that information and used AI to first of all put the design on an allocation account allocating between design
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    text: So that's uh coming in business central right now. If we talk about coming uh in business central it's in private preview
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    text: Later this year, you're going to see a public preview of that agent being able to process these invoices
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    text: it now uh takes care of water and waste in this release but also the most important uh scope 3 emissions which are the
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    text: There's 60 countries around the world right now that mandates um electronic document exchange. 20 more coming uh soon
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    text: you can now block the output of uh production orders so that you don't produce items that you basically stop selling that was not
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    text: subscription billing um was just released. So we got some feedback, a little bit of the terminology. We don't call it service anymore
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    text: One of the things that we're missing which is now as you can see soon coming. It's coming in one of the minor releases
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    text: it's very important of course to have a great integration to field service because field service uh frontline workers um as it says material
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    text: It's basically expanded by 100% uh with this release meaning that we are now describing every feature area of Business Central.
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    text: you can schedule environments to any available version of business central u that is a minor update and next major update but also to
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    text: So please use that extended window to get ready to upgrade because there will be no option to postpone updates beyond that grace period.
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    text: on this screenshot you see three worlds joining together the global extensions the per tenant extensions and dev extensions in the same view
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    text: partners spending a lot of time building reports to our you know in our studies up to 25% of implementation time can be spent
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    text: This is a really critical process for so many organizations out there.
    check: exact
  - t: 2397
    text: you can adjust your inventory period by period or even item by item. So the granularity is spectacular with this tool.
    check: exact
  - t: 2397
    text: with this release, additional capabilities were included with Business Central which allows you for example to do iterative adjustments
    check: exact
  - t: 2488
    text: moving fields and tables between extensions is a huge help to all of you doing refactoring of your apps
    check: exact
  - t: 2832
    text: If you run one batch job worth 1,000 sales invoices uh you can get around one invoice posted per second
    check: exact
  - t: 2843
    text: If you run five botches botches of 1,000 invoices, your throughput will increase to 4.7 invoices per second
    check: exact
  - t: 2916
    text: We made it possible to skip calculation of invisible flow fields because it makes a complete sense
    check: exact
  - t: 3046
    text: we are not uh we are not re rebuilding and republishing the apps which have not been changed
    check: exact
  - t: 3124
    text: This was the highlevel overview of the capabilities which 2025 release wave 1 brings to us.
    check: exact
  - t: 3165
    text: I know that 50% of our investments go into security. Yes. Then there is a quarter of investments into all everything else
    check: exact
  - t: 3165
    text: I mean I know that 50% of our investments go into security.
    check: exact
---

# Business Central Launch Event 2025 Release Wave 1 - Recording of Live Opening

> Business Central 2025 release wave 1 launch event opening: the sales order agent is in public preview in more countries, agent billing is by consumption messages (private preview), and the payables agent is shown in private preview with a public preview planned later this year. Also covers Copilot autofill and summarize, sustainability, e-documents, manufacturing, Power BI and Excel reports, admin features (flexible update management, unified extensions view, tenant discovery endpoint, customer-managed keys), developer tooling and posting performance improvements.

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw) · Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) · 2025-04-11 · 55:12 · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus)

## Overview

The 55-minute recording of the live opening of the Business Central 2025 release wave 1 launch event. It begins with the agent story: the sales order agent is in public preview and available in more countries, agents are billed in consumption units called messages, and a payables agent is demoed in private preview with a public preview announced for later in the year.

It then goes through application features (Copilot autofill and summarize, sustainability scope 3 emissions, e-documents, production order blocking and cancel/reopen, Power BI reports, Shopify, subscription billing, Field Service sync). It ends with admin and developer topics: flexible update scheduling, unified extension management, tenant discovery endpoint, customer-managed keys, cost adjustment, posting concurrency, and AL-Go for GitHub.

## Key points

- Sales order agent is in public preview and has expanded to more countries, including Canada, United States, Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. More regions are to follow.
- Agents are billed by consumption in units called messages, available as prepaid capacity packs or pay-as-you-go. The billing capability is in private preview.
- Payables agent was demoed in private preview. It reads PDF invoices, allocates charges to accounts and handles deferral codes. A public preview is announced for later this year.
- Flexible update management lets customers reschedule environment updates to available versions, and partners can create new environments from any available version. Updates cannot be postponed beyond the grace period.
- Admin center shows global, per-tenant and dev extensions in one view. A tenant discovery endpoint lets partners find all tenants and environments that granted access to their app.
- Posting tables were refactored for concurrency. Five parallel batches of 1,000 invoices reached 4.7 invoices per second, against about 1 per second for a single batch. Results vary by database.
- Developer changes include moving fields and tables between extensions, packaging resources with app code, API call mocking, a Power BI immersive page type, and AL-Go for GitHub no longer rebuilding unchanged apps.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=0s) Welcome and Event Overview
- [1:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=74s) Content Structure and Video Format Changes
- [2:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=173s) Video Access and Q&A Sessions
- [3:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=236s) Major Announcements and Business Central URL
- [5:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=325s) Release Highlights and AI Investments
- [7:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=443s) Sales Order Agent Overview and Expansion
- [9:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=540s) Sales Order Agent Features and Enhancements
- [10:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=652s) Sales Order Agent Billing Model
- [12:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=745s) Payables Agent Demo and E-document Connectors
- [15:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=953s) Copilot Autofill for Faster Data Entry
- [17:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1032s) Copilot Summarize Feature for Card Pages
- [18:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1093s) Sustainability Module Expansion and Copilot Emissions
- [19:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1170s) E-documents and Regulatory Compliance
- [20:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1238s) Manufacturing Improvements and Production Order Management
- [22:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1334s) PowerBI and Excel Reports Across Application Areas
- [24:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1469s) Shopify Integration, Subscription Billing, and Analysis Mode
- [26:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1580s) Field Service Integration and User Experience Improvements
- [27:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1677s) PDF Viewing, Fact Boxes, and Capability Guide Expansion
- [30:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1809s) New Pit Stacks and Release Overview
- [31:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1888s) Flexible Update Management and Version Scheduling
- [33:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1991s) Extension Management in Admin Center
- [34:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2096s) Tenant Discovery Endpoint for Scaling Across Customers
- [36:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2179s) Encryption and Customer-Managed Keys
- [37:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2251s) Word-based Report Customization Add-on
- [39:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2343s) Inventory Cost Adjustment and Developer Capabilities
- [42:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2525s) Development Tools: Resources, JSON, YAML, and Mocking
- [43:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2616s) PowerBI Immersive Page Type and UI Integration
- [44:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2681s) Developer Productivity: Web Client, VS Code, and Source Control
- [46:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2760s) Posting Performance and Concurrency Improvements
- [48:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2889s) Performance Optimization and Database Diagnostics
- [49:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2989s) AL-Go for GitHub and DevOps Pipeline Enhancements
- [51:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3109s) Release Summary and Security Investment

## Features

| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Order Agent | preview | [7:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=443s) | "all of this is now available for you to try in the priv in the public preview and we have expanded this p public" ([8:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=505s)) |
| Sales Order Agent Item Availability Feature | status not stated | [9:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=555s) |  |
| Sales Order Agent Email Insights | status not stated | [9:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=599s) |  |
| Sales Order Agent Auto-Create Customer | status not stated | [10:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=636s) |  |
| Sales Order Agent PDF Preview | status not stated | [10:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=652s) |  |
| Agent Billing Capability | preview | [11:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=664s) | "this is something new which is entering into the world of business central is a is a agent billing capability while in private preview" ([11:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=664s)) |
| Payables Agent | preview, demoed | [12:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=745s) | "So that's uh coming in business central right now. If we talk about coming uh in business central it's in private preview" ([14:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=898s)) |
| E-Document Connector | status not stated | [14:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=898s) |  |
| Purchase Document Draft Page | status not stated | [15:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=918s) |  |
| Payables Agent Public Preview | announced | [15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=934s) | "Later this year, you're going to see a public preview of that agent being able to process these invoices" ([15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=934s)) |
| Copilot Autofill | status not stated, demoed | [16:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=970s) |  |
| Copilot Summarize | status not stated, demoed | [17:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1044s) |  |
| Sustainability Module Expansion | status not stated | [18:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1093s) |  |
| Copilot Suggest Emissions | status not stated | [18:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1137s) |  |
| E-Document Send by Email | status not stated | [20:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1207s) |  |
| Copilot Order Matching for E-Documents | status not stated | [20:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1218s) |  |
| Block Production Order Output | status not stated | [21:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1279s) |  |
| Cancel and Reopen Production Orders | status not stated | [21:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1299s) |  |
| PowerBI Reports Expansion | status not stated | [22:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1334s) |  |
| Shopify Sales Channel Selection | generally available | [23:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1406s) | "One of the things we released uh recently uh as you can see here, one of them is um the capability for example to" ([23:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1406s)) |
| Shopify Metafields for Customers | status not stated | [23:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1432s) |  |
| Subscription Billing Improvements | status not stated | [24:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1469s) |  |
| Financial Reports Filtering and Layouts | status not stated | [25:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1534s) |  |
| Analysis Fields from Related Pages | announced | [26:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1565s) | "It's coming in one of the minor releases is the capability of actually adding fields from related pages" ([26:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1565s)) |
| Field Service Work Order Integration | status not stated | [26:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1598s) |  |
| PDF Viewing of Attachments | status not stated, demoed | [27:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1677s) |  |
| Resizing of Fact Boxes | status not stated, demoed | [27:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1677s) |  |
| Optimized Screen Estate Usage and Field Label Visibility | status not stated, demoed | [28:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1695s) |  |
| Community Code Contributions | status not stated | [28:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1739s) |  |
| Capability Guide Expansion | status not stated | [29:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1766s) |  |
| New Pit Stacks - Power Platform and Subscription | status not stated | [30:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1820s) |  |
| Business Central URL | status not stated | [4:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=282s) |  |
| Flexible Update Management | status not stated, demoed | [32:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1959s) |  |
| Create New Environments from Any Available Version | status not stated, demoed | [33:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2002s) |  |
| Unified Extensions Management in Admin Center | status not stated, demoed | [34:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2050s) |  |
| Tenant Discovery Endpoint | status not stated, demoed | [35:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2107s) |  |
| Customer-Managed Encryption Keys | status not stated | [36:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2215s) |  |
| Word-Based Report Customization Add-on | status not stated, demoed | [37:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2251s) |  |
| Iterative Inventory Cost Adjustments | status not stated | [39:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2343s) |  |
| Cost Adjustment Self-Diagnostics and Insights | status not stated | [40:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2423s) |  |
| Moving Fields and Tables Between Extensions | status not stated | [40:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2453s) |  |
| Resource Packaging with App Code | status not stated | [41:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2513s) |  |
| JSON and YAML Tooling | status not stated | [42:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2541s) |  |
| API Call Mocking for Testing | status not stated | [42:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2554s) |  |
| PowerBI Immersive Page Type | status not stated, demoed | [43:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2616s) |  |
| Direct Jump from Apps List to Source Code | status not stated | [44:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2698s) |  |
| Automatic Launch Configuration Generation | status not stated | [45:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2713s) |  |
| One-Click App Dependency Listing | status not stated | [45:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2730s) |  |
| Posting Table Concurrency Refactoring | status not stated | [46:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2760s) |  |
| Skip Invisible Flowfield Calculation | status not stated | [48:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2916s) |  |
| Faster Company Copying | status not stated | [48:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2929s) |  |
| Enhanced Database Statistics Page | status not stated | [49:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2943s) |  |
| Service Startup and Scaling Improvements | status not stated | [49:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2967s) |  |
| AL-Go for GitHub Build Optimization | status not stated | [50:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3046s) |  |
| Page Scripting Tests in AL-Go | status not stated | [51:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3070s) |  |

## AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

- other "roll center" at [12:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=770s)
- other "allocation account" at [13:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=836s)
- other "deferral code" at [14:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=858s)
- page "purchase document draft page" at [15:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=918s)
- [page 21 "Customer Card"](../objects/page/21.md) at [16:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=984s)
- page "analysis views" at [26:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1565s)

Not found in BC28-30: page "purchase document draft page", page "analysis views".

## Quotes

- [1:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=74s) "Hot of the press, it's less than an hour ago that we actually shipped Business Central 2025 release wave 1."
- [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=150s) "we actually have 60 plus videos byite-sized for you guys at home. And we have an amount of 10 hours that you guys can"
- [5:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=357s) "we talk about the sales order agent. And that was the number of agents spun up by you trying it out in the very"
- [8:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=505s) "all of this is now available for you to try in the priv in the public preview and we have expanded this p public"
- [8:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=516s) "the sales order agent is going to many more countries around the world. So it's gone into Canada, United States, Australia, Great Britain, New"
- [11:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=687s) "The a the agent is going to be uh monetized in a consumption unit which is called message."
- [12:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=729s) "this was just the beginning of Business Central agentic story. So, we're moving beyond the first agent already now."
- [13:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=836s) "the payables agent has taken that information and used AI to first of all put the design on an allocation account allocating between design"
- [14:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=898s) "So that's uh coming in business central right now. If we talk about coming uh in business central it's in private preview"
- [15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=934s) "Later this year, you're going to see a public preview of that agent being able to process these invoices"
- [18:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1108s) "it now uh takes care of water and waste in this release but also the most important uh scope 3 emissions which are the"
- [19:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1180s) "There's 60 countries around the world right now that mandates um electronic document exchange. 20 more coming uh soon"
- [21:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1279s) "you can now block the output of uh production orders so that you don't produce items that you basically stop selling that was not"
- [24:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1482s) "subscription billing um was just released. So we got some feedback, a little bit of the terminology. We don't call it service anymore"
- [26:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1565s) "One of the things that we're missing which is now as you can see soon coming. It's coming in one of the minor releases"
- [26:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1618s) "it's very important of course to have a great integration to field service because field service uh frontline workers um as it says material"
- [29:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1782s) "It's basically expanded by 100% uh with this release meaning that we are now describing every feature area of Business Central."
- [32:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1971s) "you can schedule environments to any available version of business central u that is a minor update and next major update but also to"
- [33:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2032s) "So please use that extended window to get ready to upgrade because there will be no option to postpone updates beyond that grace period."
- [34:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2073s) "on this screenshot you see three worlds joining together the global extensions the per tenant extensions and dev extensions in the same view"
- [37:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2251s) "partners spending a lot of time building reports to our you know in our studies up to 25% of implementation time can be spent"
- [39:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2367s) "This is a really critical process for so many organizations out there."
- [39:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2397s) "you can adjust your inventory period by period or even item by item. So the granularity is spectacular with this tool."
- [39:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2397s) "with this release, additional capabilities were included with Business Central which allows you for example to do iterative adjustments"
- [41:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2488s) "moving fields and tables between extensions is a huge help to all of you doing refactoring of your apps"
- [47:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2832s) "If you run one batch job worth 1,000 sales invoices uh you can get around one invoice posted per second"
- [47:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2843s) "If you run five botches botches of 1,000 invoices, your throughput will increase to 4.7 invoices per second"
- [48:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2916s) "We made it possible to skip calculation of invisible flow fields because it makes a complete sense"
- [50:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3046s) "we are not uh we are not re rebuilding and republishing the apps which have not been changed"
- [52:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3124s) "This was the highlevel overview of the capabilities which 2025 release wave 1 brings to us."
- [52:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3165s) "I know that 50% of our investments go into security. Yes. Then there is a quarter of investments into all everything else"
- [52:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=3165s) "I mean I know that 50% of our investments go into security."

## Disclaimers in the video

- [8:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=505s) preview: available for you to try in the priv in the public preview
- [11:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=664s) preview: agent billing capability while in private preview
- [14:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=898s) preview: coming in business central it's in private preview
- [15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=934s) coming-later: Later this year, you're going to see a public preview
- [26:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=1565s) coming-later: soon coming. It's coming in one of the minor releases
- [47:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JkZCp64jNw&t=2873s) other: the team asked me to put all of the asterises around the 324% percentages. it differs from data to data, from database to database

Presenters (as heard): Maya, Yanik, Yanik Ba, Dmitri Shadv, Christina, Demetri, Stan, Yanni, Dimitri.