What's New: Enhanced Demo Data (2026 release wave 1)
Enhanced demo data in Business Central (2026 release wave 1) covers fixed assets, sales, purchasing and subscription billing. It adds transactions and variation so reports, analysis mode and Power BI apps show more realistic data. A demo data tool under analytics provides access to it.
- Enhanced Demo Data Overview
- Fixed Assets Demo Data
- Sales and Purchasing Demo Data Enhancements
- Subscription Billing and Analysis Mode
- Demo Tools and Related Analytics Sessions
- Resources and Community Links
Overview
The video describes the demo data additions in 2026 release wave 1. Fixed assets get acquisition and depreciation transactions, so fixed asset reports, analysis mode on fixed asset ledgers and FA registers can be demoed. Sales and purchasing get more documents with variation across sales people, discounts, a purchasing department dimension and purchase return orders.
Subscription billing gets master data and transactions, which fills analysis mode in the client and the Power BI app. The video also shows lists in analysis mode as an alternative to Power BI apps, and mentions a demo data tool under analytics that can be installed and extended to other scenarios.
Key points
- Fixed assets demo data now includes acquisition and depreciation transactions, enabling fixed asset reports, analysis mode on fixed asset ledgers and FA registers.
- Sales demo data adds 11 more open sales orders and 9 more back orders, plus discounts and variation across sales people, for Power BI app demos.
- Purchasing demo data adds a purchasing department dimension and purchase return orders.
- Posting the new sales and purchasing documents also improves the general ledger data in finance.
- Subscription billing demo data adds customer contracts, vendor contracts and billing lines, which populate analysis mode and the Power BI app.
- A demo data tool under analytics can be installed to get this data and can be extended to other scenarios.
- Analysis mode on lists is shown as an alternative to Power BI apps for viewing data.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed Assets Transaction Demo Data | status not stated, demoed | 0:52 |
| Sales Demo Data Enhancements | status not stated, demoed | 1:09 |
| Purchasing Demo Data Enhancements | status not stated, demoed | 1:24 |
| Finance General Ledger Improvement | status not stated | 1:36 |
| Subscription Billing Demo Data | status not stated, demoed | 2:17 |
| Demo Data Control Tool | status not stated | 0:39 |
Quotes
- 0:06 “there’s only one value of this, of course, it’s just when you do your demos that all reports and Power BI just showcase a”
- 0:26 “we are have added demo data across fixed assets, sales, purchasing, and subscription billing”
- 0:39 “Everything by the way is part of the demo data control tool under analytics. So you just install that”
- 0:52 “For fixed assets, we added transaction data for acquisitions and depreciations. And when we have that, you can now demo all the reports”
- 1:24 “we added more document demo data but we also spread it or made more variation in the in the”
- 1:36 “when you post documents having this demo data, there’s an added benefit that also in finance things are coming in the finance in the”
- 2:05 “For open sales orders, we added 11 more. So for back orders, also nine more”
- 2:17 “With subscription billing, we added both master data and transactions and that lights up all the analysis mode”