Check out the latest release plans for Microsoft Industry Clouds
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Updated monthly, the release wave 1 plan details features released from April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023, and is available online or via download as a PDF file. This plan covers features for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, Microsoft Cloud for Retail, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, and Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit. Read on for a summary of each industry’s release plan and learn about supporting resources
Microsoft Cloud for Industry 2023 release wave 1 plan
Learn about the latest updates to customers as features are prepared for release.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
With this release, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare focuses on customer feedback across various offerings. During this wave, we are expanding the support in enhancing patient experiences with patient journeys. We will also focus on planning tools to empower health teams to provide better care management. Additionally, to improve the time to value, we are releasing capabilities to support for create/read update and delete procedures and performance improvements for Dataverse Healthcare application programming interfaces (APIs). Keep an eye out for more announcements to follow in April 2023.
Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services
Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services will continue to focus on strengthening offerings in banking, cross-vertical experiences, and financial services data models. For the upcoming releases, we are prioritizing providing customers and partners with more flexibility in meeting their specific needs through componentization. The components offer individual deployment and configuration capabilities for customer onboarding, document processing, and in how customer financial information is represented. We will enable flexible adaptation of the UI to different scenarios, offer a wealth of tools for document processing and management using AI, and provide various end points for partner enablement in the process. We plan to improve the retail banking loan onboarding solution with the new document intelligence feature and offer additional flexibility enhancements as requested by our customers and partners.
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
Microsoft Cloud for Retail accelerates innovation with industry-specific solutions that help retailers maximize the value of their data by providing an engaging shopping experience for their shoppers, and empowering store associates to be productive and customer focused. With this release, Microsoft Cloud for Retail is continuing its investments in both Store Operations and Smart Store Analytics with customer requested features and additional AI and machine learning based capabilities. With Store Operations Assist, we are enabling features like tablet support, branching logic for survey responses, enhanced integration with Microsoft Teams front line worker apps. For Smart Store Analytics, we are adding additional AI and machine learning based insights around product recommendations and foot traffic analysis. Additionally, we will also enable additional scenarios with Microsoft Could for Retail prioritized partners.
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability empowers organizations to accelerate sustainability progress by bringing together a growing set of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) capabilities from Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and solutions from a global ecosystem of partners. We continue to empower organizations in their sustainability efforts across our solutions which streamline data ingestion, integration, calculations, reporting and more. Our offering also includes an environmental credit service, bringing efficiency, trust and transparency to voluntary ecological markets. We continue to extend our data story with the availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability API which allows organization to get emissions data for extensibility and customization for solutions and reporting. This release wave also extends our scope 3 category calculations for the GHG Protocol, including providing reporting on the following scope 3 categories: Scope 3 category 3: Fuel- and energy-related activities not included in scope 1 or scope 2; Scope 3 category 12 (included in a previous release): End-of-life treatment of sold products.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit in 2023 release wave 1, continues to deliver capabilities that enable nonprofits to operate in a holistic and seamless way and empower partners to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit. In this release we are focusing on accelerating mission outcomes by improving evidence-based decision-making through connected organization data powered by rich data capabilities and machine learning. We also will help nonprofits extend fundraising and engagement more easily. Know your donors and supporters by inputting and processing donor gifts quickly, viewing actionable donor insights, and integrated reporting with Dynamics 365 Marketing.
Key dates for the 2023 release wave 1
These release plans describe functionality that may not have been released yet. Delivery timelines and projected functionality may change or may not ship (go to Microsoft policy for more information).
Here are the key dates for the 2023 release wave 1.
| Milestone | Date | Description |
| Release plans available | January 25, 2023 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2023 release wave 1 (April 2023 – September 2023) across Microsoft Cloud for Industry, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Power Platform. |
| Release plans available in 11 additional languages | February 21, 2023 | The Microsoft Cloud for Industry, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Power Platform release plans are published in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. |
| General availability | April 1, 2023 | Production deployment for the 2023 release wave 1 begins. Regional deployments will start on April 1, 2023. |
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We look forward to engaging with you as you put these new services and capabilities to work, and we’re eager to hear your feedback as you dig into the 2023 release wave 1.
