Help Shape the Agentic Future of Dynamics 365 ERP - Submit and Upvote ideas for F&O and BPA MCP

The era of Agentic ERP is here - and you can help shape what comes next

If you've been following Dynamics 365 ERP in the past month, you've likely seen the wave of agentic AI scenarios enabled by the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers - including the Finance & Operations (F&O) MCP server and the Analytics MCP server.

And things are moving fast.

With the 10.0.47 release, the F&O MCP server just took another meaningful step forward, introducing additional tools for working through data entities along with a solid set of other fixes and improvements. At the same time, customers and partners now have access to the public preview of the F&O Analytics MCP server, opening the door for agents to answer complex business questions using natural language - through the Business Performance Analytics (BPA) solution on top of ERP data.

Together, these MCP servers represent a fundamental shift in how people interact with their ERP data. 

It's been amazing and truly inspiring seeing all the different innovative agentic scenarios the community is building - from operational automation to decision support - using the MCP tools we're exposing. 

Our belief is simple: The age of AI-native ERP isn't coming - it's already here, as we're all a part of it.

Help Shape the Future of Dynamics 365 ERP MCP servers

To make it easier for the community to influence what comes next, we've just introduced a dedicated category on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Ideas portal: Dynamics 365 ERP Agent Foundation

Within it, you'll find sections for F&O MCP server and Analytics MCP server. This is where you can propose new ideas, share improvement suggestions and vote on existing ideas that matter to your agents and your business. 

Dynamics 365 ERP Agent Foundation Ideas

So what are you waiting for? Go here to tell us where we should take ERP MCP next:

• If you faced problems when building your agents
• If your agent cannot access a specific form, data entity or API
• If you think the behavior or user experience should be improved
• If you have any other great idea

The more votes an idea receives, the higher the likelihood it gets prioritized and implemented in a future release - especially in a space that is evolving this quickly!

Submitting a new idea is also easy, just remember to select the right Product and Category, and add as much detail as possible - that will make it much easier for us to review and triage it.

Suggesting a new idea

Cross references in Dynamics 365 ERP (Finance and Operations) that are somewhat easier to work with

Ever since the migration to Visual Studio as the primary IDE for AX, one of the complaints from developers has been how cumbersome it has become using the cross references, as it was using the default cross references viewer from Visual Studio. 

Engineers looked for ways to make life at least a bit easier by building all sorts of weird extensions and tools. One such tool I have shared in 2016 in the following post: Development tool: Copy 'Find references' results to clipboard (to Excel) in Visual Studio for AX 7.

Well, in the 10.0.47 / PU71 release of Dynamics 365 ERP we finally see some improvements to the Cross References tool.

Here's how it looks now:

The benefits are:

• You can now exclude test models, which is great as that used to get in the way a lot when looking for code
• You can now group the references by model and/or type.

In the image above you can see I've chosen to show the cross references for WHSWorkTable, excluding test models and grouping by the element type. This helped narrow down my search significantly, where I was looking for forms, where work table is one of the data sources.

Some things that are still missing, and will hopefully be added in a future update:

• Ability to further search over the results
• Matching the theme to the VS / Windows theme, by supporting Dark mode
• (very unlikely) Read/Write designation like in old AX versions

Are there any other Cross References features you would like to see? 

Let me know in the comments, and I'll make sure the owning team is made of aware of the request.