Microsoft’s new employee engagement platform ‘Microsoft Viva’

Microsoft unveils new employee engagement platform to help employees learn, grow and thrive, with new experiences that integrate with the productivity and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Teams

Here is the link for the announcement https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/04/microsoft-unveils-new-employee-experience-platform-microsoft-viva-to-help-people-thrive-at-work/

Whether it will be a boost for D365 Human Resource related to learning management ?

CDS changed to Microsoft Dataverse

Here is an old member with new name 😊 Now CDS changed to ‘Microsoft Dataverse’.

Here is the link of announcement & information

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro

Below is the link for developer overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/common-data-service/overview

Along with that there are terminology updates as under

‘Project Oakdale’ also renamed to ‘Microsoft Dataverse for Teams’. Here is the link ..

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/about-teams-environment

Power Automate Desktop

Power Automate Desktop introduces a new drag-and-drop visual designer with over 370+ actions that run on your desktop, so you can automate everyday tasks to more complex business processes and workflows all from one intelligent automation platform.

Currently it is in preview phase please find the below links for more information

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/jumpstart-your-business-with-power-automates-new-desktop-rpa-solution/

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/ui-flows/

Microsoft Project Oakdale

Now-a-days maximum people are working from home so in current scenario Microsoft Teams is the best environment for team collaboration and execution.

Someone may be thinking if Power Platform features can avail within Teams environment it would be great 🤗 Now Microsoft has a solution Power Apps within the Team as ‘Project Oakdale’

Please refer below link for more information

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/overview-data-platform

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/ko-kr/blog/introducing-project-oakdale-a-new-low-code-data-platform-for-microsoft-teams/