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Business Central Pulse Brief #2

This week's focus: Microsoft replaces the twice-yearly Business Central release plans with a continuous roadmap.

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📍 How to keep up with Business Central. Where new features appear now, what changes when the Release Planner retires on 15 November, and a simple 15-minute monthly routine.

🤖 Meet the Expense Agent. Employees upload a receipt and the agent drafts the expense line. Finance stays in control of approval and posting.

💬 Just ask Business Central. Ask a question in plain English and get the answer from your live data, with no new report to build.

🏛️ Industry insert Fund management for not-for-profits: tracking committed, reserved and allocated funding against grants.

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