There are 3 areas that I cover in each month’s What’s new update:
- New features planned for public preview in Feb 2021
- Features moved from public preview to general availability in Feb 2021
- Overall roadmap updates
Curious to know more, read on to know more details!
New features planned for public preview in Feb 2021
🔗Benefits management workspace
The benefits management workspace will focus on providing specific views for HR administrators based on the enrollment period selected:
- Employees with unconfirmed selections
- New hires not enrolled
- Employees with no plans selected during open enrollment
- Open life events
- Future life events
- Employees enrolled in benefits
Also a separate tab will be made available to view process results and communications.
I am excited to see this in action on a trail environment and test a few things🤩
Features moved from public preview to general availability in Feb 2021
🔗Enable simplified integration with recruiting providers
This roadmap item is focused on exposing the recruitment based scenario specific api’s that will help customers and partners achieve tight integrations with Dynamics 365 Human Resources.
🔗Enhanced candidate profile in personnel management
This roadmap item is focused on enhancing the candidate records on Dynamics 365 Human Resources Personnel Management to include additional details such as skills, employment history and additional information gathered during the hiring process.
This would help in avoiding the HR team to re enter the candidate data into the employee records.
🔗Manager can submit a recruiting request for open positions
At the moment there is a Request new position capability on Manager Self Service, but this would only end up creating a new position. The enhancements as I understand would help the manger be involved with the hiring process a bit by being able to trigger the workflow to start the hiring process and also being able to keep track of the hiring process. I am curious and looking forward to this enhancement.
🔗Employee leave and absence on Microsoft Teams!
Teams, Teams and more Teams… An overview if you have not yet read something about this – “Empower your employees and managers to manage leave and absence via Teams app for Dynamics 365 Human Resources”
The product team has created an amazing feature update video to explain the capabilities. Have a look at this below:
If you curious to read and know more about this, read my related blog posts
Overall roadmap updates
There are changes in the overall roadmap items and release timelines of D365HR release 2020 wave 2. Find the updated overview illustrated below:
Do you want to have a quickly accessible overview of the roadmap which is linked to Microsoft official documentation? Download the pdf:
Release 2021 Wave 1 updates are included on this timeline already so that you can already plan based on what’s coming!🤩
Wrap up….
The major update in February 2021 is the general availability of D365HR app for Teams and Recruitment api related enhancements to make D365HR integrations with external recruitment providers. Curious and interested to discuss more about this topic please reach out to me on LinkedIn!
Also ready my blog post with an overview of Release 2021 Wave 1 updates related to Dynamics 365 Human Resources: Dynamics 365 HR: Release 2021 Wave 1
Kudos to all the hard work from the Product development teams of Dynamics 365 Human Resources👍
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