My Directions Takeaways
Lots of AI, luckily not all AI.
Business Central core.
Power Platform.
And very important, connecting with other attendees.
However, due to the limited number of flights to and from Poznan, just the whole Tuesday and Wednesday at Directions, on Thursday only joined the Keynote 3, community keynote.
But, did 6 sessions per day, so maximized my visit.
Ooh, also joined the Yaveon-Tasklet party on Tuesday and offcourse the Directions party on Wednesday.
Herewith my Takeaways in a nutshell.
Old-School Networking
With 3200 attendees, many sponsor sessions & booths, and community zones it was easy to do some old school networking.
Visit booths from partners in crime like Tasklet Factory (Mobile WMS) and MultiSoft (Mobile NAV), to Aptean and Staedean, both former employers of me.
And offcourse spoke to many other people at the idyn booth and during breaks or after sessions.
Good to see and join the BC community.
The Keynotes
A new icon/logo! New Look! Same Power!
CBAM, what?
Quality Management, you can uninstall this app when other apps suits your needs in abetter way…
The evolution of BC
MCP server public preview
And too many to mention…
Transform to AI first
By Clarinda Dobbelaar and Gemma McAnally
Will I loose my job?
The answer is…No… plenty of opportunities.
Look for Move 37 (hint a Japanese board game).
And follow 5 steps on the road to AI
You need to implement Agents now
By Tine Staric
Microsoft Design Patterns
By Nikola Kukrika and Joshua Martinez, old and new Microsoft🤩
From the Dark Ages to a New Era.
How Consultants Can Use Telemetry in Business Central
By Milan Milinčević and Renato Fajdiga
Building Apps Smarter: combining Generative Pages & Code Apps
By Vivian Voss & Yannick Reekmans
Not Business Central but Power Platform with AI.
And the best part of the demo, Yannick changed the colour of Vivians AI generated app, did an undo, and the app broke…
Microsoft Profiling First
By Peter Borring and Christian Heide Damm
My Takeaways
A lot on AI, however start small, as everything seems to have limitations.
Use Agents for one task in Business Central, as on the background they are just a user with a permissionset, a profile and thus limited, otherwise they do your work wrong and very slow. Keep it simple and fast.
Still, changes in the Business Central core ERP. Not that much, but did see some interesting things to look into.
Start with AI with a few pilot customers.