Microsoft's 'Spring '18' refresh of its Dynamics 365 services includes some major new development and analytics tech under the covers: The Common Data Service for Apps and for Analytics.

Microsoft announced the spring update to its Power BI and Power Apps platform today with a significant enhancement, a new common data service that enables ...

In 2016, when Microsoft announced its makeover of its CRM and ERP strategy in the form of Dynamics 365, officials started talking up the Common Data Model (CDM), which was the heart of those services.

Common Data Service for Analytics will allow organizations to expand Power BI insight-gathering capabilities into the data stored inside diverse business applications.

Additionally, Informatica's support for Microsoft Power BI dataflows over ADLS Gen2 with CDM folders empowers users to accelerate self-service analytics and gain rapid access to and analysis of ...

The branding provides a new name for the software giant's Common Data Service (CDS) which is used to build custom Power Apps. Microsoft had planned to use the Dataflex name for CDS in Teams while ...

The common platform approach is also intended to play into the hands of Microsoft’s large partner community. If all parties to a customer project are working in and through the same common data ...

The new business entity database enables Microsoft Flow users to kick off automated workflows from a greater variety of apps and services.

The Microsoft Dataflex provides relational database management directly within Microsoft Teams. Built atop of the Microsoft Common Data Service, Dataflex lets users easily create databases, Microsoft ...