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This release wave includes many capabilities that apply to all Finance and Operations applications. Here's an overview of some of them.
User productivity and experiences
Investments in improved user experiences and enhancements to existing capabilities are focus areas for 2019 release wave 2. Saved views will become available, and several improvements to this feature will follow as part of monthly updates, such as saved view support for workspaces and dialogs, as well as improved management of modified views. The new grid control will be available with an improved user experience due to new capabilities such as the ability to see totals for numeric columns in tabular grids, reordering of columns, as well as the ability to freeze a column so it doesn't scroll out of view. Improvements to filtering, such as easier and more useful ways to filter on enum and datetime fields, will be provided to enhance the experience for most users and business scenarios. Personalization capabilities that allow users to build optimized experiences will be made, and investments in improving mobile experiences will greatly improve the usability of applications on mobile devices.
With 2019 release wave 2, management of batch jobs and batch queues will be greatly improved, giving administrators the ability to prioritize batch jobs by business processes.
In addition, this wave will support embedding Power BI solutions directly into Finance and Operations analytical workspaces.
Developer tools
Developer tools will be available as standalone installable components (in preview). Build automation will take advantage of cloud-hosted agents in Azure DevOps, removing the need for build VMs for continuous delivery of customization packages.
Geo expansion
Finance and Operations apps are expanding to be available in certain geographies within six months of Microsoft Azure availability in that location, and where there is viable business opportunity. A data resident cloud for Finance and Operations apps will ensure that all customer data, code, metadata, and diagnostics remain within the designated geography.