The Business Central Launch Edition for 2026 release wave 1 went live on April 1, 2026:
- Thirty-seven sessions, just under ten hours, all free at aka.ms/BCLE.
- I covered the release notes a few weeks ago: Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1: A Mix of Platform Evolution and Practical Improvements.
- Partner deck: aka.ms/BCLEDECK
Copilot and AI Agents
- What’s new: Payables Agent (3:45)
- What’s new: Business Central integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio (9:15)
- What’s new: AI development toolkit (20:07)
- What’s new: BC-Bench (13:05)
Reporting and Analytics
- What’s new: Enhanced Power BI and Excel with Business Central (14:50)
- What’s new: Enhanced Analysis mode (13:55)
- What’s new: Enhanced Financial Reporting (21:39)
- What’s new: Enhanced Financial analytics (10:08)
- What’s new: Enhanced document reporting (18:10)
- What’s new: Enhanced inventory analytics (13:08)
- What’s new: Enhanced sales analytics (9:54)
- What’s new: Enhanced subscription billing analytics (9:39)
- What’s new: Enhanced IT Audit reporting (22:29)
- What’s new: Enhanced demo data (7:47)
Supply Chain Management
- What’s new in supply chain management (overview) (17:30)
- What’s new: Drop shipments (10:20)
- What’s new: Matching purchase invoices to order and receipt lines (11:10)
- Introducing: Quality Management (46:03)
Finance and Tax
- Introducing: Self-billing invoices (7:51)
- Introducing: Withholding Taxes (13:28)
- What’s new: Excise Taxes (16:09)
- What’s new: Fixed Assets (10:03)
- What’s new: E-Documents (12:53)
- What’s new: APIs for permissions, approvals, and documents (8:37)
Development and Platform
- What’s new: AL Language (35:03)
- What’s new: Running tests from Visual Studio Code (8:28)
- What’s new: Enhanced MCP Server (18:02)
- What’s new: Admin Center MCP Server (10:25)
- What’s new: Server and Database (17:03)
- What’s new: Enhanced index management (13:37)
Shopify Connector
- What’s new: Shopify connector (overview) (11:26)
- What’s new in product information management in Shopify connector (7:52)
- What’s new in processing of presentment currencies in Shopify (4:54)
Governance and Administration
User Experience and Productivity
- What’s new: Business Central user experience and productivity (6:41)
- What’s new: Sustainability (11:00)
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