Microsoft is planning a set of structural changes to Dynamics 365 Human Resources (D365 HR) that will update the application’s capabilities, align its administration with the rest of the Finance and Operations suite, unify the feature set across the applications, and update licensing of HR capabilities.
The so-called infrastructure merge for D365 HR will result in a single set of features for D365 HR that will account for overlapping HR features in the other Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365FO) apps: Finance, Supply Chain Management, Commerce, and Project Operations.
After the merge is complete, D365 HR will also be able to use Dynamics 365 Lifecycle Services, issue search, and Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT). And it will “provide both Microsoft Power Platform extensibility, and a way to extend business logic and feature options,” according to Microsoft.
So HR is back together with the other Finance and Operations apps and you no longer have to integrate between HR and Finance.
If you have one or more of the D365 Finance and Operations apps, but don’t use the HR functionality included in these and you have D365 HR, then make sure your data is the same structure because, sometime in the future your apps will be merged and you will have the same database, so the data needs to be aligned. If you do have a big differences, then you have some work to do.
As far as I’ve read from the notes, you will now have to buy D365 HR and start using that license. (As with Project oeprations)
If you have one or more of the D365 Finance and Operations apps and use the HR functionality included in those, but don’t have D365 HR then you get added functionality and a system Microsoft is improving
Some new HR features:
Improvements to leave and absence app in Teams
New features :
- Users can edit or cancel their existing submitted or approved leave requests.
- Managers can view their direct reports’ leave balances while reviewing leave requests.
- Calendar enhancements will allow users to view a companywide calendar or their extended reports’ availability calendar, based on their roles and permissions.
Improved extensibility options
There are some functionalities in the F&O apps that will help with extensibilities, and it will be easier to use the Power Platform tools. We can also hope for improved integrations.
Manage employee sick leave
This is not planned for public preview until March 2022, with no set GA date, but its a major current gap (field by Synergy D365 GCC localised Payroll module.)
The planned functionalities are:
- Open-ended sick leave requests.
- Return-to-work notices.
- Sick leave reporting.
- Management and approval of sick leave requests.
Current licensing
The current licensing on Dynamics 365 Human Resources (as it is in July 2021) is $120 per user per month when HR is your only Dynamics 365 app. If you have other apps and those same users will have access to HR, then the attach license cost is $30 per user per month.
