Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
by Rahul Mohta, Yogesh Kasat, JJ Yadav
Common Data Service (CDS)
Common Data Service (CDS) is a shared database for storing business entities that connects to Dynamics 365, Flow, and PowerApps. It is the fabric behind Dynamics 365 and Office 365 to provide consistently structured entities across services spanning solutions within Dynamics 365 as well as external applications.
CDS gives a secure and encrypted business database, comprising of well-formed standard business entities that can be deployed for use in your organization. It provides structured metadata, rich data types, auto numbering, lookups, business data types, such as Address, Currency, capabilities, such as referential integrity, through metadata configuration, and cascade deletes, making a compelling functionality. ...
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