In 2016, when Microsoft announced its makeover of its CRM and ERP strategy in the form of Dynamics 365, officials started talking up the Common Data Model (CDM), which was the heart of those services.

Microsoft's 'Spring '18' refresh of its Dynamics 365 services includes some major new development and analytics tech under the covers: The Common Data Service for Apps and for Analytics.

Microsoft announced the spring update to its Power BI and Power Apps platform today with a significant enhancement, a new common data service that enables companies to build data-based ...

Common Data Service for Analytics will allow organizations to expand Power BI insight-gathering capabilities into the data stored inside diverse business applications.

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Microsoft used its recent Inspire partner event to rename the Common Data Service tools that support, manage, and work with Common Data Model entities to Dataflex Pro.

And Common Data Service for Analytics introduces a standardized model to pull in data across many Microsoft and third-party sources into Power BI's data visualization tools.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of OpenAI's GPT-4 artificial intelligence (AI) model for users of the Azure OpenAI service.

The common platform approach is also intended to play into the hands of Microsoft’s large partner community. If all parties to a customer project are working in and through the same common data ...