What’s in the 2024 Release Wave 2?
In Microsoft Power Platform’s 2024 Release Wave 2 an impressive number of new features have been added which foster users and organizations to work in smarter ways rather than harder. Let’s highlight the most significant changes introduced across the entire suite of apps:
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Power BI: Moving to Microsoft Fabric and adoption of AI
It is now possible for the organization to move towards Microsoft Fabric for embedding Power BI into web-based tools, increasing an organization’s confidence in data and enabling them to make critical business decisions. From an organizational perspective AI augmentation of reporting transforms how businesses visualize their data, generate reports, and populate the information with trustworthy insights. The enhancement of Data Factory for accelerated information replication also helps to create a more sophisticated level of analysis across analytics to the Data Lake.
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Power Apps: Infused Intelligence for App Makers
In this regard, Power Apps now incorporates AI-assisted development of applications which empowers both makers and the professional developers to configure more sophisticated applications with reduced lines of code. Infused intelligence will help the users to handle data, give insights and improve the experience of apps. The new administrator features include governance and monitoring so that apps can be constructed and roll out reliably, on a large scale and with great peace of mind. This is expected to enable the users of the organization to embrace the low-cost and AI technologies while still upholding the control of their environments.
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Power Pages: Low-Code Site Building for Everyone
What Power Pages is doing is to make it easier for low-code makers and pro developers to create and responsive websites. This update changes the very notions of how a business engages with their customers, employees, and partners. Whether you’re creating a customer portal or an internal knowledge hub, with Power Pages this is now possible and easier than before. This ensures a more seamless and more user-oriented development process.
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Microsoft Copilot Studio: Extension of Copilot Features
Microsoft Copilot Studio has improved its service by enhancing IVR (Interactive Voice Response) support for Dynamics Customer Service and broadening its scope to foreign markets like the UAE and Germany. With improved governance, security and administration tools, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and topic-based import/export, Copilot Studio will assist businesses in controlling their software application lifecycle and allow AI tools deployment in a safe and efficient manner.
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AI Builder: Encouraging AI Growth with Prompt Builder and AI Template
AI Builder continues its forward march, presenting additional features such as the Prompt Builder which allows users to generate and implement custom GPT prompts for their Apps, workflows, and data tables. This release also features enhancements to Intelligent Document Processing such as a New validation station in Power Automate. Further, the prebuilt AI models such as those for translation, classification and PII detection will facilitate further automation of data handling tasks. Additional AI governance improvements will also allow organizations to keep their A.I. deployment in check and control the relevant data policies.
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Microsoft Dataverse: Increasing App Creativeness and Productivity with AI
For Microsoft Dataverse this is a breakthrough as it delivers the maker experience through the use of Copilot AI integrated tools quickening app creation. The release aims to enhance external data connectivity allowing developers to build smarter and more resourceful applications. This is complemented by improved integration with Microsoft 365 that enables businesses to use enterprise information and AI in their everyday activities.
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Governance and Administration: Helping Admins Enable Safe Growth
For administrators of the Power Platform who are looking to improve their governance and administration management, the 2024 Release Wave 2 introduces some key features. New tools will support admins in managing the adoption of the Copilot, the protection of low-code assets, and the spreading of the adoption throughout the organization. In accordance with these changes, organizations are allowed to increase their Power Platform solutions’ capacity while keeping their digital space protected and compliant.
Microsoft Power Platform Governance and Administration: What’s New in 2024 Release Wave 2.
According to Microsoft Power Platform 2024 Release Wave 2, there are significant improvements in the governance and administration tools that allow IT administrators to control and enhance environments at scale. The key enhancements include the following:
- Admin Center Upgrades: Usability enhancements aimed at Copilot integration, along with an enhancement of security and license oversight.
- Application Development, Dynamics ALM: Improved deployment, versioning and collaboration tools for the secure development of apps.
- Tools, Enterprise Scale: Enhanced API, PowerShell, and CLI automation for a large amount of resources.
- Licensing / Capacity: Weighted insights into license usage generated by AI will assist in troubleshooting allocation of admins.
- Security and Compliance: More security controls, an emphasis on security, and auditing as a protection model for secure end to end coverage.
- Unified Experience: Finance and Operations apps’ integration within the Power Platform for centralized administration and management.
Conclusion
The 2024 Release Wave 2 is a significant leap forward in Microsoft’s vision to make digital transformation accessible, efficient, and scalable for businesses of all sizes. With AI at the forefront and powerful tools like Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio, organizations have everything they need to turn their data into actionable insights, automate repetitive tasks, and build next-generation applications—all with enhanced governance and security.
