{"id":30149,"date":"2026-05-06T21:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/30149\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:40:30","slug":"dataverse-is-your-agent-data-platform-heres-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/30149\/","title":{"rendered":"Dataverse Is Your Agent Data Platform: Here\u2019s What\u2019s New\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every organization building AI agents hits the same wall. Agents\u00a0can access data, but they\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0understand\u00a0the business. They retrieve records but miss context. They answer questions but\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know your\u00a0rules, your relationships, your\u00a0processes.\u00a0The bottleneck is no longer model access.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0business\u00a0context. Over the past six months,\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0been building\u00a0Microsoft Dataverse<\/a>\u00a0into the agent data platform: the layer that gives agents not just\u00a0data access, but\u00a0real business\u00a0understanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Agent<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0new\u00a0for each persona:\u00a0<\/p>\n

For business users,\u00a0business data in Microsoft 365 Copilot.<\/a>\u00a0Your\u00a0unified business data includes Dynamics 365 or custom apps built in Power Platform powered by Dataverse combined with Microsoft 365 data (i.e.\u00a0emails, meetings, and documents) to deliver grounded, contextual answers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For makers,\u00a0business skills<\/a>\u00a0describe a specific process. Skills are the detailed steps-by-step instructions involved, the information required, and the business rules that apply. Agents connected to the Dataverse MCP server discover relevant skills automatically and use them to complete tasks according to your organization\u2019s standards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For developers,\u00a0Dataverse Plugin<\/a>\u00a0for coding agents. Dataverse plugin is an open-source plugin that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot build and manage Microsoft Dataverse solutions through natural language.\u00a0Available\u00a0on\u00a0Claude Marketplace:<\/a>\u00a0install a plugin, say \u201cconnect to Dataverse,\u201d and start building.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we shipped and why it matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dataverse in Microsoft 365 Copilot<\/p>\n

Business data has been locked behind app-specific experiences.\u00a0Business\u00a0users\u00a0context\u00a0switch between Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Outlook, and Teams to piece together the full picture. What if Copilot could understand your business data the way your best people do?\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s\u00a0now happening.\u00a0In March, we announced\u00a0Microsoft 365 Copilot\u00a0embedded as an\u00a0in-app sidecar\u00a0experience\u00a0within Power Apps, Dynamics 365 Sales, and Dynamics 365 Customer Service<\/a>.\u00a0Under the hood,\u00a0we introduced a\u00a0reasoning layer natively integrated in Microsoft 365 Copilot, reconciling enterprise\u00a0data\u00a0and work signals from across your apps to power the combination of critical sources of business data and insights: Microsoft 365 apps, Dynamics 365 apps, and Power Platform. Coming soon in early June, business data will be available across Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences in Copilot App on desktop, Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.<\/p>\n

What does this look like in practice?\u00a0Ask Microsoft 365 Copilot \u201cThere\u2019s new guidance\u00a0about\u00a0vendor selection. For\u00a0overdue\u00a0issue, please select which vendor to assign\u201d and get a precise list grounded in your CRM records and email signals. No report building. No app switching. No guesswork.\u00a0Let\u2019s\u00a0see this in action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By\u00a0leveraging\u00a0the intelligent semantic layer in\u00a0Agentic AI powered Dataverse Search<\/a>, Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences deliver answers using an adaptive reasoning process based on schema and keywords.\u00a0This\u00a0allows Microsoft 365 Copilot\u00a0to understand tables and\u00a0relationships and how to navigate them to get the right answers rather than\u00a0doing just\u00a0keyword search.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same\u00a0proven\u00a0unified semantic search index that powers global search in Power Apps also provides retrieval and grounding for Copilot, agents, and MCP tools. When your search gets better, every AI experience built on it gets better too. In this release,\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0made the index faster, more real-time, and easier to manage:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Up to 6\u00d7 faster initialization.\u00a0Turning on Dataverse\u00a0search\u00a0for\u00a0a new environment\u00a0now takes minutes, not hours.\u00a0Your team gets started faster, so they can build more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Near real-time data freshness.\u00a0Newly added or updated records appear in\u00a0Copilot results within minutes.\u00a0Copilot\u00a0and agents are ground on current business data, not stale snapshots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zero-disruption schema evolution.\u00a0Adding or removing columns no longer pauses indexing. Schema changes refresh in the background while Dataverse Search keeps running.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visibility and control for admins.\u00a0See exactly which tables are indexed, how much capacity each consumes, and download usage reports. Enable or disable indexing for Copilot and search independently, so you can scale AI workloads without\u00a0impacting\u00a0existing search behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One search index for Copilot, agents, and MCP. All grounded in the same governed business data in Dataverse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Business\u00a0skills:\u00a0teach agents how your organization works\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your organization\u2019s most valuable knowledge lives\u00a0as tribal knowledge\u00a0in people\u2019s heads: the escalation path for a vendor issue, the approval steps for a sales proposal, the\u00a0process\u00a0to\u00a0assign\u00a0the right\u00a0specialist to\u00a0staff\u00a0your\u00a0project. Agents\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0access what\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0simply\u00a0written down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Business skills<\/a>\u00a0in Dataverse, now in public preview,\u00a0captures\u00a0your processes, policies, and domain\u00a0expertise\u00a0as natural-language instructions.\u00a0Makers can write\u00a0business skills\u00a0in plain language or upload existing\u00a0skills and\u00a0govern them with built-in controls.\u00a0The best part: any agent connected to the\u00a0Dataverse MCP server<\/a>\u00a0discovers your skills automatically, whether it runs in Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, or any MCP-compatible client. Define once, apply everywhere\u00a0\u2013\u00a0let\u2019s\u00a0see this in action.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Velrada<\/a>\u00a0makes\u00a0this\u00a0real\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0field service\u00a0inspection scenario:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cVelrada\u00a0built Inspection Agent<\/a> to help worksite supervisors and field workers track the maintenance status of their equipment \u2013 so they can trust the tools used to get the job done. The Inspection Agent uses business skills to perform an equipment inspection with the user. For an onsite HVAC inspection, the Inspection Agent will invoke the business skill to\u00a0determine\u00a0the questions to ask based on equipment class,\u00a0checks\u00a0the last inspection outcomes, and pull in context of any historic issues. The result: a conversational assessment that produces a\u00a0consolidated\u00a0inspection report on the HVAC unit\u2019s condition and follow-up guidance for maintenance\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014 Matthew Pontel, General Manager of Applied AI,\u00a0Velrada\u00a0<\/p>\n

Learn more about business skills:\u00a0Introducing business skills: Teach agents how your organization works\u00a0 \u2013 Microsoft Power Platform Blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dataverse\u00a0plugin: coding agents now speak Dataverse\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enterprise development is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Developers describe intent; coding agents orchestrate the right tools over governed business data. What used to require juggling APIs, CLIs, and documentation can now be expressed as a single prompt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dataverse Plugin for coding agents<\/a>\u00a0(in\u00a0public\u00a0preview)\u00a0makes this real. Install one open-source plugin, and your coding agent gets full Dataverse fluency. Under the hood, the plugin packages four tools and knows which one to reach for:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

PAC CLI<\/a>\u00a0for admin gestures like solution export and environment management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No manual setup. Describe your intent; the agent handles the orchestration.\u00a0See this in action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Picture this: a platform developer needs to build a customer escalation tracker on Dynamics. With the\u00a0Dataverse plugin for coding agents<\/a>, they connect to their environment, create tables, define business skills, configure security roles, and deploy the solution, all through natural language in their coding agent.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0modern development\u00a0with\u00a0coding agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get started:\u00a0Install the Dataverse Plugin<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dataverse agentic evolution: from experimentation to execution\u00a0<\/p>\n

Six months ago, agents could access your data. Today, they understand your business: your schema, your processes, your\u00a0rules. The wall between data access and business understanding is coming down:\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0the\u00a0agent data platform.\u00a0Today at\u00a0EU Biz Apps Summit<\/a>\u00a0in Cologne, we\u2019re showing all of this live. And\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0just getting started. At\u00a0\/\/Build<\/a>\u00a0in June,\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0share\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0next.\u00a0Learn more:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every organization building AI agents hits the same wall. Agents\u00a0can access data, but they\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0understand\u00a0the business. They retrieve records…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[420,7853,416,320,7852],"class_list":{"0":"post-30149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"tag-azure","9":"tag-azure-copilot","10":"tag-copilot","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-microsoft-copilot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}