Business Central 2026 release wave 2 (version 29) brings Copilot and AI agents into everyday finance and operations. In this 50-minute live session, 3K Global AI walked through what changed, with live demos and Q&A.
What's new in BC29: the release timeline (general availability in the first week of October 2026, monthly 29.x updates through March 2027), key changes, and the retirement of SOAP web services for UI pages in favour of REST/OData v4.
Copilot and AI agents, live: unified Copilot chat over your business data, the Payables Agent (PO matching on line amounts and expected receipt dates) and the Expense Agent (approvals with AI policy checks, travel requisitions, interim approvers).
Finance, reporting and operations updates: report packs in one PDF, MCP Server data queries, the agent review bar, Shopify B2B and Peppol EDI e-documents.
The 3K DAI framework: Discover, Assess and Implement, a practical path to Copilot, AI agents, Power Automate, Power BI and Microsoft 365/Teams.
Finance, operations, IT and business leaders at organisations running Business Central versions 25–28 that will move to version 29, and NAV users planning their next step. Especially relevant for manufacturing, trading and distribution, IT services/ITES, pharma and healthcare, and professional services.
Book a free 30-minute BC29 Upgrade & AI Readiness Assessment: a 1:1 review of your Business Central adoption and how the DAI framework would apply.
BC29 feature details were based on Microsoft's Update 29.0 public preview (prerelease) at the time of the session and may change.