Exciting time of the year when the release notes come to life, right? Once again I'm delighted to share with you the upcoming features for Dynamics 365 Human Resources. Some of the functionalities added to the roadmap were suggested by the community and that tells a lot about the Product Team managing Dynamics 365 Human Resources and how they listen to customers, partners, and the community in general. Let's surf together this wave.
🎯 Areas of focus:
Business automation: helps HR to use the power of automation to run administrative tasks automatically related to onboarding, crossboarding, or offboarding employees.
Intelligent management: finding the perfect worker for the right job ensuring the pipeline of candidates and succession plans, helping to plan for the future.
Environment migration: we all know about the infrastructure merge, in this release you will find how the migration will happen.
Let's review the feature list together:
👉 General 👈
Migration to Finance and Operations infrastructure. If you want to know a bit more have a look at this video: D365 HR Fundamentals: Infrastructure merge - YouTube.
Why: To provide coherence between all Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps, giving customers the capabilities of integrating in a much simpler way.
What: Depending on the customer scenario there will be two options available:
🏄 Dynamics 365 Human Resources standalone: Data and Power Platform extensions will migrate to Citizen Application Platform infrastructure.
🏄 HR Module within Dynamics 365 Finance: Data and Power Platform extensions will migrate to Citizen Application Platform infrastructure. Entity creation might be needed and importing from one environment to the other also (HR>Fin).
Who: Admins, makers, analysts, and automatically.
When: PP Mar 2022 | GA Jun 2022
LCS: Migration options - a glint of how it will look like
Official image from Microsoft 2022 release wave 1 plan
👉 Integrations and extensibility 👈
Expanding the solution with LMS Partners is now possible through new integrations available and features that enable customizations through Microsoft Dataverse.
Why: To enhance employee experience and complete the employee journey by gathering all training information from LMS, making the information available in one system.
What: Providing specific Dataverse-based APIs within the integration platform to create integrations between both platforms, capturing end-to-end journeys related to learning processes and data.
Who: Users, admin, makers, and analysts.
When: PP Jan 2022 | GA Jul 2022
👉 Organization and Personnel Management 👈
Enhancing automation on active employees
Why: To provide a better employee experience for new joiners and HR staff, through automation capabilities in order to capture employee information and reduce HR workload.
What: Auto-approving information entered by Human Resources such as skills and certificates.
Who: Admins, makers, analysts, and automatically.
When: PP Aug 2022 | GA TBD
Enhancing automation on employees joining.
Why: To help Human Resources departments to save time and to ensure the information added to the employee record is correct.
What: Auto-selecting relevant employee data and adding it to the record. Auto-assigning onboarding checklists based on job/position assigned to the employee. Auto-enrolling in compensation, benefits, and leave plans based on eligibility.
Who: Admins, makers, analysts, and automatically.
When: PP Aug 2022 | GA TBD
Enhancing automation on employees leaving.
Why: To help Human Resources departments to save time and to ensure all open items for a leaving employee are processed.
What: Auto-unenrolling and processing leave accruals when an employee leaves. Auto-assigning offboarding checklists. Auto-ending terms of employment after employment is terminated.
Who: Admins, makers, analysts, and automatically.
When: PP Aug 2022 | GA TBD
👉 Employee development 👈
Why: To contribute to a better understanding of the current workforce skills and ability to perform and anticipate the needs of tomorrow.
What: Providing intelligent insights and report helping to understand the gap between the current skillset and skills needed for the organization. Four areas are involved
🏄 Recruiting: Adding skills to request for recruiting based on job specifications.
🏄 Learning: Providing suggestions for learning courses and assigning goals and courses to the employee records.
🏄Coaching and mentoring: Analyzing employees' skills and needs of improvement to help managers provide support for employee development.
🏄 Internal mobility: Comparing employee records and job opening details makes the perfect match.
Who: Admins, makers, analysts, and automatically.
When: PP Aug 2022 | GA TBD
If you want to have a look at the complete guide, find it here: Microsoft Dynamics 365 2022 release wave 1 plan overview | Microsoft Docs
🚨 Features planned to be released from Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 🚨
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