Dynamics 365 Business Central release wave 2 for 2025 is here. There’s loads to unpack, so we collated some of our favourite new features and functionality.
E-Documents
The new E-Documents app is Microsoft’s standardised framework for integrations, which will be the plumbing that apps and add-ons use to connect to your vendors & customers. It’s connected to Avalara, B2BRouter, Continia, Logiq, Pagero, Signup, and in 2025, MS has now added support for ForNAV.
You’ll notice the term Peppol comes up a lot in E-Documents. Peppol is similar to the EDI network via EDIFACT or AS2, but it’s aim is to make document exchange even simpler using a standardised format. Peppol has recently taken off as many countries start enforcing Peppol for electronic documents, including Australia.
Our team is busy looking into the differences between Continia Microsoft E-Document Connector, Continia’s full Document Capture & Document Output solution, and comparing that to the Fenwick EDI Fusion solution to offer clear recommendations for our clients who require eInvoicing going forward.
Sales Order Agent
The Sales Order Agent, introduced in 2024 helps automate sales order creation by using Copilot to analyse customer emails & requests. This feature has been improved further in the new release:
- Attachment processing
- Support for multiple ship-to
- Automatic email processing
- Allow for users to interrupt processing with additional instructions in natural language
Payables Agent
The Payables Agent is launching, and will be made available for public preview January 2026. This new feature creates purchase invoices with Copilot, and makes it even easier to match vendor invoices to orders.
- 3-way matching between invoices, orders and receipts
- Process purchase orders & attachments using OCR
Microsoft has planned for the Payables Agent to also support AI processing of e-invoices received through other channels, like Peppol files received through E-Documents.
Supply Chain Management
We’ve seen Microsoft continue to build on its success with Business Central’s core supply chain management capabilities. Earlier this year, we’ve seen several manufacturing focused improvements, such as adding the ability to cancel production orders, over-pick components and reopen finished production orders. In this release, Microsoft have added the ability to:
- Use subcontracting capabilities in production processes
- Evaluate quality of incoming goods and materials
Other improvements
Aside from the above headline grabbing features, I’m also very pleased to see these quality-of-life changes, as Business Central keeps evolving.
- Contoso Coffee will contain more data (quotes, returns, posted invoices), so you can more easily demo reports & analytics
- Reduce chance of table locking, through ordering posting by line type instead of line number
- See the actual SQL call in performance profiles
- Delete data fast with truncate
- Cancel building & publishing from VSC
- Access Name 2 everywhere!
