Overview of Dynamics 365 Customer Insights April '19 release

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These release notes describe functionality that may not have been released yet. To see when this functionality is planned to release, please review What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. Delivery timelines and projected functionality may change or may not ship (see Microsoft policy).

Customer experience is at the very core of every organization’s digital transformation ambitions. To compete in today’s market, organizations need to build meaningful relationships with their customers on a personal level. The ability to effectively personalize at scale requires a complete, unified view of customers. Build a deep understanding of customers by connecting customer data from various transactional, behavioral and observational sources to create a 360-degree customer view to deliver insights that drive customer-centric experiences and processes.

With Customer Insights, organizations can:

  • Eliminate data silos and unify customer data

    • Connect and unify your data with ease—bring in transactional, observational, and behavioral data from popular data sources by leveraging prebuilt connectors.
    • Transform customer data intelligently—build unified customer profiles conforming to the Common Data Model. Resolve customer identities with recommendations driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning.

  • Enrich with audience intelligence contained within Microsoft Graph

    • Build richer customer profiles by incorporating audience intelligence contained within Microsoft Graph.

  • Power your business processes and personalized customer experiences

    • Drive personalized engagement across channels—empower marketing, sales, and service professionals with out-of-the-box, contextual customer insights and tailored customer profile cards infused into the business applications they already use every day.
    • Automate customer-centric experiences and processes based on customizable profiles, business measures, and segments.
    • Enable and extend line-of-business experiences built on the Microsoft Power Platform. Quickly build custom business applications with embedded customer insights using a powerful, click-and-point approach from PowerApps.

The release will include capabilities for the following key users:

  • Data analysts and admins:

    • Access to a rich collection of Power Platform connectors to ingest all your customer data.
    • Ability to unify customer data and transform it into the Common Data Model format.
    • Enrich customer information with insights from audience intelligence contained within Microsoft Graph such as brand affinity and interests.
    • “Clicks-not-code” configuration and debugging experience to help easily configure customer insights and identify potential issues.
    • Cleanse and standardize customer data across disparate sources with AI-powered recommendations.

  • Business users:

    • Insights into 360-degree customer profile and end-to-end view of the customer journey.
    • View 360-degree customer data within Dynamics 365 business processes with prebuild packages.

  • Business analysts:

    • Build customizable profiles, define measures, and create segments to get a 360-degree view of your customer specific to your organization.
    • Use out-of-the-box connectors for PowerApps, Power BI, or REST API to surface customer insights in your business applications or BI solutions.