Ep 64 | Business Central 2024 Release Wave 2 Overview | A Shot of Business Central and A Beer
A Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central podcast | Episode 64 A Shot of Business Central and A Beer
Welcome to episode 64 of A Shot of Business Central and a Beer! In this episode, Ken Sebahar and Michael Intravartolo bring their signature blend of Business Central expertise and laid-back banter to the forefront, tackling the latest 2024 Release Wave 2 features like seasoned sports commentators. From rapid-fire insights to deep dives into Microsoft Copilot AI, this episode covers all the hot topics you need to know, while enjoying a cold Phase Three P3 Czech Style Lager. So grab your favorite drink, settle in, and get ready for a fun and informative ride through the world of ERP!
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Beer we're drinking
P3 Czech-Style Lager by Phase Three Brewing Company
Shot of Business Central (News)
Two Feature Changes
Microsoft’s Q4, FY24 earnings report ✨
✅ Revenue grew 15% to $64.7 billion
✅ Operating income grew 15% to $27.9 billion
✅ Earnings: $2.95 per share, up by 10%
Category highlights:
☁️ Microsoft Cloud revenue was $36.8 billion ⬆️21%
👾 Xbox content and services ⬆️61%
🧠 Azure (+other cloud services) revenue ⬆️29%
📝 Office Commercial revenue ⬆️12%
📊 Dynamics 365 ⬆️19%
💻 Windows revenue ⬆️7%
💬 LinkedIn revenue ⬆️10%
🔎 Search and news advertising revenue ex TAC ⬆️19%
Product highlights:
✅ 50,000 organizations have used Copilot Studio such as Carnival Corporation, Cognizant, Eaton, and McKinsey & Company – ⬆️70%+ QoQ.
✅ 48 million monthly active users of the Microsoft Power Platform. ⬆️40%
✅ Copilot usage doubled among people engaging 5+ days a week with ⬆️60% surge in our Copilot customer base.
✅ The number of customers with >10,000 Copilot seats more than doubled QoQ, including Capital Group, The Walt Disney Company, Dow, and Novartis.
🗣️ Satya Nadella, CEO shared “As a platform company, we are focused on meeting the mission-critical needs of our customers across our at-scale platforms today, while also ensuring we lead the AI era.”
🗣️ Amy Hood, CFO shared “We closed out our fiscal year with a solid quarter, highlighted by record bookings and Microsoft Cloud quarterly revenue of $36.8 billion, up 21% (up 22% in constant currency) year-over-year”
AI Snack Time
Microsoft Bing Copilot has falsely described a German journalist as a child molester, an escapee from a psychiatric institution, and a fraudster who preys on widows.
Microsoft (MSFT) says more of its customers are signing up for and using its generative AI-based Copilot software in a sign that its AI investments are beginning to pay off.
And according to Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of AI at work, the company is seeing sizable gains in usage of its Copilot for Microsoft 365.
“Last quarter, the number of Copilot for [Microsoft 365] customers increased by more than 60%, which is great because we were already off to the races with that,” Spataro told Yahoo Finance.
“Daily users more than doubled, and we love that trend. When we start to see that type of intensity of usage doubling, it means that you're really onto something,” added Spataro.
Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that could enable the theft of sensitive user information using a technique called ASCII smuggling.
"ASCII Smuggling is a novel technique that uses special Unicode characters that mirror ASCII but are actually not visible in the user interface," security researcher Johann Rehberger said.
"This means that an attacker can have the [large language model] render, to the user, invisible data, and embed them within clickable hyperlinks. This technique basically stages the data for exfiltration!"
Outro
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