Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Finance in 2025 release wave 1
Important
The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2025 to September 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Finance.
Overview
Finance continues to be a strategic leader in an organization’s growth plan, and a key aspect is gaining competitive advantage by leaning in on how AI can transform not only the productivity of an organization, but the ability to view deep insights on data for faster decision-making. We continue to strengthen our autonomous financial application goals by bringing additional copilot and agentic capabilities to customers, while strengthening the core offering setting the foundation for end-to-end automation and copilot experiences.
In this release, we continue our preview of the account reconciliation agent, moving this process from end of period to a systematic, real-time experience. We are also introducing a new journal framework, bringing additional control, hyper-scale and multicompany capabilities to both the entry and import experience. Modern bank reconciliation and automation continue to be enhanced to reach deeper capabilities based on user feedback. In globalization, we continue expanding our out-of-the-box localizations with releases for Türkiye and Argentina, ensure the system stays up to date with evolving electronic invoicing, tax reporting, and other legislations, while also enhancing tax automation capabilities.
Business performance analytics introduces increased data fresh and extensibility capabilities, and business performance planning provides intelligent actions and templates for quickly starting with the continuous planning process.
Features and user experience enhancements are designed with copilot first experience, using copilot to gain deep insights across documents in the application, gain insights into fixed assets book, help with increasing automation in bank reconciliation, and reduce the manual work involved in managing taxes and applying regulatory updates.
Investment areas
Business performance
The business performance suite of capabilities brings together analytics, planning, and insights as an extensible solution on a single platform to continuously plan, act, and analyze your financial and operational data. Features in business performance showcase our enhancements around Business performance planning and business performance analytics.
Copilot
Copilot provides users with AI-powered assistance and helps resolve tasks more efficiently with less steps by guiding users through these tasks, empowering users with data, ensuring best decisions, and taking actions. These time savings enable faster execution of financial tasks and let users spend time on more value-added activities.
Core financials
Our core financials investments focus on bringing additional enhancements to core financial capabilities, enhancing end-to-end business processes across ERP, increasing automation, reporting, and analytics, and reducing financial close time.
Globalization Studio
Our solution is used by customers in over 210 countries and regions to meet various tax compliance and local requirements (localizations). We offer out-of-the-box localizations and continuous regulatory updates for multiple countries and regions, available in multiple languages. Our no-code/low-code Globalization Studio services automate complex tax scenarios, enabling partners and customers to easily extend localizations.
We are investing in expanding out-of-the-box country coverage, automating continuous regulatory updates, and reducing the manual efforts involved in managing taxes.
To follow our planned and released regulatory updates, visit Search for country-specific regulatory updates.
For more information on Globalization Studio, visit Globalization Studio documentation.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Finance below:
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 must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.
Get the most out of Finance
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Finance. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Finance. |
| User community | Engage with Finance experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Finance. |