Microsoft's 'Spring '18' refresh of its Dynamics 365 services includes some major new development and analytics tech under the covers: The Common Data Service for Apps and for Analytics.

Common Data Service for Analytics will allow organizations to expand Power BI insight-gathering capabilities into the data stored inside diverse business applications.

Office 365 is now also built of the same common data platform which should, Phillips suggested, help bring in additional data from outside to enrich the data pool and subsequent analyses: The goal is ...

Microsoft has made a promised public preview of its Common Data Model (CDM) entity database available to testers. CDM is at the heart of the coming Microsoft Dynamics 365 bundle.

Microsoft announced the spring update to its Power BI and Power Apps platform today with a significant enhancement, a new common data service that enables companies to build data-based ...