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.

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The CDM is part of Microsoft's Common Data Service (more about that later in this post), PowerApps and Power BI. It also will be supported in some Azure Data services in the future.

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Information protection makes sure that only people with permissions see data in Power BI, while retaining the ability to share top-level trends, balancing productivity and security.

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