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Use enhanced analysis assist with Copilot

Enabled for Public preview General availability
Users, automatically - Oct 1, 2025

Business value

Microsoft Copilot in Business Central is the AI-powered assistant that boosts creativity, improves productivity, and eliminates tedious tasks. Copilot helps you reduce the time it takes to identify trends and anomalies in your business data by enabling you to express your analysis as a simple sentence, without ever leaving Business Central. By describing how you want to structure your data analysis, such as "show me vendors by location sorted by amount of purchases," you can quickly get insights instead of spending time on the clicks and keystrokes to construct analysis views. For example, you can use this feature to identify which vendors supply each of your warehouses, and then take steps to optimize your supply chain or negotiate better deals with your vendors.

Feature details

In this release, you get general availability of Copilot's analysis assist feature with the following key enhancements:

  • A new system permission in the Copilot System Features permission set that grants or denies access to the feature.
  • The ability to ask Copilot to include fields from related tables.
  • Immediate feedback when making analysis design choices that might affect performance.

For more information about analysis assist and how to set it up, see Analyze data in lists with Copilot.

Note

  • AI features that become generally available default to active, even if the preview was deactivated earlier. Administrators can deactivate this from the Copilot and agent capabilities page.
  • This feature is supported in English and select languages only. While it can be used in other languages, it may not function as intended. Language quality may vary based on the user’s interaction or system settings, which may impact accuracy and the user experience.
  • AI-generated content might be incorrect.

Closeup of the new prompt guides in the Analysis Assist dialog.

The prompt dialog where a user has entered a prompt that adds fields from related tables

About security, privacy, and AI

Copilot is built on Microsoft's comprehensive approach to enterprise security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI. Our philosophy is that your data is your data: Microsoft doesn't use customer data in Business Central to train AI models.

Read the FAQ for Copilot data security and privacy for Dynamics 365.

Join the conversation

We're excited to have you with us on our Copilot journey.

Help us improve Dynamics 365 Business Central by discussing ideas, providing suggestions, and giving feedback. Use the forum at aka.ms/bcIdeas, or join the partner community discussion on the Dynamics 365 Business Central Partner Community Network on Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) to help shape the future of AI in Business Central.

Geographic areas

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Language availability

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