2025 Release Wave 2 Plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
On July 16, 2025, Microsoft announced the 2025 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 Business Central, outlining the new capabilities expected to roll out between October 2025 and March 2026.
This upcoming wave marks a pivotal step forward in Microsoft’s mission to empower small and mid-sized businesses with intelligent, AI-powered tools that simplify operations, drive performance, and enable smarter, faster decision-making across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sustainability, and more.
Whether you’re looking to automate processes, strengthen compliance, or improve agility with data-driven insights, this release wave delivers new opportunities to future-proof your operations. Read on to discover the full overview and what’s planned in this release.
Key Themes and Advancements
In the 2025 release wave 2, Microsoft is expanding the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central with a strong focus on AI innovation, automation, sustainability, and manufacturing enhancements.
With new intelligent agents, users benefit from deeper automation and smarter workflows that reduce manual effort and increase productivity. The application continues to scale across industries and geographies, offering built-in extensibility, seamless integrations with Shopify and Dynamics 365 Field Service, and enhanced support for electronic documents and compliance.
This release highlights Microsoft’s continued investment in making Business Central a powerful and adaptable business platform – ready to help organizations grow, innovate, and operate more efficiently in today’s fast-moving environment.
Wave Highlights for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Copilot and Agents
Business Central is Microsoft’s comprehensive, AI-powered application for small and medium-sized organizations that want to scale their business with AI automation, eliminate tedious tasks, and simplify work with powerful generative AI. Microsoft invests in customers’ AI transformation and enables its diverse partner community to bring industry expertise to accelerate this mission.
Even in the AI era, customers trust that their data is safe because it is protected by Microsoft’s world-class security, privacy, and compliance controls. The application is built on Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles, which put people at the center of the experience.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is the AI-powered assistant that improves efficiency, boosts creativity, and eliminates repetitive tasks. With a Business Central license, every user gets Copilot at no extra cost. Copilot in Business Central has an ever-growing set of skills to guide, find, compare, analyze, suggest, and summarize.
Assistive features such as Chat, and task-specific features like bank account reconciliation assistance, are ready to use without complex setup or training. These features are seamlessly integrated to reduce or eliminate the need to switch between applications.
Autonomous Agents
Autonomous agents intelligently automate key business processes. For example, the Sales Order Agent handles the intake of sales orders from emails and attachments, interprets unstructured data, and generates accurate sales documents. With just a few clicks to configure and activate, these built-in agents can be run. They offer extensive oversight capabilities, allowing customers to review and approve activity – ensuring control while reducing manual effort.
For makers and pro developers, Business Central offers the flexibility to add custom AI solutions and connect to the broader Microsoft Cloud of AI-powered apps and services.
Copilot and agents are available only for Business Central online customers.
Country and Regional Availability
Business Central is available to organizations in an expanding number of countries and regions. This growth is driven largely by partner-led localizations. Microsoft partners create and maintain apps tailored for specific markets and publish them on AppSource.
Combined with built-in language support, Business Central now serves customers in more than 170 countries and regions. In markets where Microsoft is directly responsible for localization, all required regulatory updates are provided.
Development
This release introduces powerful new extensibility features that empower developers to create adaptable, resource-efficient solutions with greater flexibility to meet evolving business needs. With the ability to define profile extension objects, developers can customize user profiles without duplicating code – enhancing productivity while maintaining code integrity.
Developers can now include resources in extensions and access them from AL, streamlining data initialization and setup. Enhancements to the Explore in Visual Studio Code feature allow seamless access to GitHub repositories, even when IP protection is in place. Full-text search metadata on table fields enables faster, more accurate data search for a better user experience.
To save time validating solutions, resellers and publishers can now run multiple AppSource apps through a public NuGet feed that offers downloadable symbols, managed by AL-Go for GitHub. A rule-based scheduling mode for performance profiling also enables background profiling to identify and resolve performance issues more efficiently.
E-commerce
In each release, Microsoft continues to enhance Business Central’s integration with Shopify, based on direct customer feedback. This integration supports efficient planning, procurement, and product cost management. Customers also gain greater control over inventory levels across locations and item variants.
Connecting Business Central with Shopify simplifies pricing and discount definitions, as well as tax management and reporting for regulatory compliance. Whether using Shopify or Shopify Plus (which includes B2B features), this integration helps streamline business operations and improve overall efficiency.
Electronic Documents
Electronic Documents in Business Central streamline the sending and receiving of documents by minimizing manual data entry and reducing errors. This helps users become more efficient and focus on strategic activities.
The functionality enhances data accuracy and security while offering significant time and cost savings, contributing to improved operational performance.
Financial Management
Microsoft prioritizes the most requested features and market trends to shape Financial Management capabilities in each release. A core focus is on leveraging Copilot to streamline data entry, automate routine tasks, and deliver intelligent insights that improve decision-making.
Current efforts center on enabling agents to assist with financial tasks. For example, agents can support bookkeeping by referencing historical patterns or existing business practices. Financial tools continue to be adapted for a global customer base, with ongoing enhancements to tax management and compliance with evolving international regulations.
Reporting and Data Analysis
Data is the foundation of modern business decision-making. Recent advances in AI and analytics offer businesses transformative ways to uncover insights, detect trends, and drive innovation.
Microsoft’s reporting strategy emphasizes building universal BI and analytics directly within the Business Central experience. Rich, immersive content from both Microsoft and third-party providers is integrated seamlessly. Alongside flexible self-service capabilities, customers can extract maximum value from their data with minimal effort.
Supply Chain Management
Business Central provides comprehensive tools to manage procurement, production, logistics, and distribution – all in one integrated platform. Inventory management, order processing, and demand forecasting features allow businesses to maintain control and ensure on-time delivery. Support for multiple supply chain models gives customers the flexibility to align processes with business goals.
Deep integration with Microsoft products like Power BI and Teams allows for real-time insights and collaboration, helping teams make informed decisions based on live data. In this release, investments in quality management and subcontracting further expand supply chain capabilities.
Sustainability Management
Microsoft continues to expand Sustainability Management capabilities in Business Central to align with evolving regulations and customer feedback.
Collect Sustainability Data:
- Track emissions, water usage, and waste across business units or locations.
- Manually input data or use formulas, and import emission factors through open APIs.
- Estimate carbon footprints with support from Copilot – even when full emission data is unavailable.
Track Progress:
- Use the Sustainability Role Center to monitor KPIs and manage targets via scorecards.
- Centralize and visualize key environmental metrics.
Gain Insights and Simplify Reporting:
- Use built-in and Excel-based reports, embedded Power BI dashboards, and custom analysis views.
- Align with CSRD and other standards via External ESG Reporting integrations.
- Meet CBAM and EPR compliance requirements.
Enhance Brand Reputation:
- Track Scope 3 emissions across the full value chain.
- Add carbon footprint data to product invoices for transparency and accountability.
These tools help customers measure, report, and reduce their environmental impact confidently and efficiently.
For Application Administrators
User-impacting Features to the User Experience Enabled Automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged “Users, automatically” in the release plan.
Features that Application Administrators Enable
Users get features in this release wave when administrators, makers, or business analysts enable or configure them. For the complete list, see all features tagged “Users by admins, makers, or analysts” in the release plan.
Ready for What’s Next in Business Innovation?
Whether you’re managing complex supply chains, driving growth across sales channels, or delivering high-value client services – the 2025 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central is built to support your next phase. With enhanced automation, stronger compliance tools, and a smoother upgrade path, it’s the right moment to modernize how your business runs.
