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

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.

Features

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
• other “allocation account” at 13:56
• other “deferral code” at 14:18
• page “purchase document draft page” at 15:18
• page 21 “Customer Card” at 16:24
• page “analysis views” at 26:05

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

Quotes

• 1:14 “Hot of the press, it’s less than an hour ago that we actually shipped Business Central 2025 release wave 1.”
• 2:30 “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 “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 “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 “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 “The a the agent is going to be uh monetized in a consumption unit which is called message.”
• 12:09 “this was just the beginning of Business Central agentic story. So, we’re moving beyond the first agent already now.”
• 13:56 “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 “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 “Later this year, you’re going to see a public preview of that agent being able to process these invoices”
• 18:28 “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 “There’s 60 countries around the world right now that mandates um electronic document exchange. 20 more coming uh soon”
• 21:19 “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 “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 “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 “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 “It’s basically expanded by 100% uh with this release meaning that we are now describing every feature area of Business Central.”
• 32:51 “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 “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 “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 “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 “This is a really critical process for so many organizations out there.”
• 39:57 “you can adjust your inventory period by period or even item by item. So the granularity is spectacular with this tool.”
• 39:57 “with this release, additional capabilities were included with Business Central which allows you for example to do iterative adjustments”
• 41:28 “moving fields and tables between extensions is a huge help to all of you doing refactoring of your apps”
• 47:12 “If you run one batch job worth 1,000 sales invoices uh you can get around one invoice posted per second”
• 47:23 “If you run five botches botches of 1,000 invoices, your throughput will increase to 4.7 invoices per second”
• 48:36 “We made it possible to skip calculation of invisible flow fields because it makes a complete sense”
• 50:46 “we are not uh we are not re rebuilding and republishing the apps which have not been changed”
• 52:04 “This was the highlevel overview of the capabilities which 2025 release wave 1 brings to us.”
• 52:45 “I know that 50% of our investments go into security. Yes. Then there is a quarter of investments into all everything else”
• 52:45 “I mean I know that 50% of our investments go into security.”

Disclaimers in the video

• 8:25 preview: available for you to try in the priv in the public preview
• 11:04 preview: agent billing capability while in private preview
• 14:58 preview: coming in business central it’s in private preview
• 15:34 coming-later: Later this year, you’re going to see a public preview
• 26:05 coming-later: soon coming. It’s coming in one of the minor releases
• 47:53 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.