All About Microsoft Dataverse

In today’s world what we have in abundance is Data. With the advancement in IT, Data is one thing which is captured from anywhere and used by the organization to provide a better customer experience.

With the growing data, the challenge the organizations are facing is Transforming the data, Storing it at one place and then manipulating the data for the better Customer Experience.

With the idea of better customer experience, Technology giants like Microsoft are working to make this integration of data from different data sources easy.

That is where, Microsoft has introduced its Data platform called Dataverse, one of its kind, which provides a seamless integration between the Microsoft products and helps in Data Transformation, Data Unification and Using that Data efficiently for a great User Experience.

What is Microsoft Data Verse?

Data verse, also knows as Common Data Services earlier, is Microsoft’s data platform.
Data verse enables every individual to securely store and manage data.

Data verse is mainly used with Business Applications(Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, Field Service etc).

What are the components of Data verse?

Data verse consists of Tables, Columns, Rows, Choice and Yes/No fields.

What are the updates in the Terminology in the new Dataverse?

Why to use Data Verse?

Data verse provides secure and cloud based storage options for your data. You can achieve this using the standard and custom tables. It helps you to create business specific definitions of your organizations data for use within apps. Other benefits of Dataverse are:

• Easy to Manage: Since both Data and its metadata are stored in the cloud, we need not to worry about its storage, MIcrosoft will manage everything from storage to its scaling.
• Easy to Secure: Security is Microsoft’s core importance. Data is securely stored in Microsoft’s data center so users can see it only if you grant them the access. Role Based security allows you to control and manage the tables and data for different users within the organizations.
• Access your Dynamics 365 Data: One of the best things with Data Verse is the ease of access of your Dynamics 365 Data. With the help of Dataverse you can extend your Dynamics 365 Apps using Power Apps.
• Rich Metadata: There are inbuilt data types available in data verse. There are inbuilt relationships as well which are used directly within PowerApps.
• Logic and  validation: There are calculated columns, Business Rules. Workflows, and business process flows to ensure quality of data helps in drive the business processes of any organization.
• Productivity Tools: Microsoft allows seamless data accessibility and integration with their ecosystem. Tables of dataverse are easily available and accessible within the add-ins for Microsoft Excel to increase productivity and ensure data accessibility.

How can we integrate data into the Dataverse?

Data is everywhere and is the core of every application.. Anything you built requires data from multiple sources. Well, dataverse will allow data to be integrated from different data sources into a single dataverse, which then you can use in PowerApps, Power Bi, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents.

• One Time import of data: Easy use of Import and export of excel and CSV files can be used for a one time import of data into dataverse.
• Transport & Import data using Power Query: This can be very helpful when using the data in Power Bi. It helps in easy transformation of Data.
• Scheduled Integration with Other Systems: To synchronize the data from other systems we can schedule them easily in the dataverse.