The Latest Improvements of CDS CDM and Data with Maya Dumesh

Life and career background of Maya Dumesh – where she lives, her hobbies and describes the community she grew up in

A conversation about Maya’s journey to working with Microsoft

Discusses Maya’s focus, role and responsibilities as Principal Program Manager for data

An introduction to Data storage

Discusses the difference between Common Data Model (CDM) and Common Data Service (CDS)

Talks about the different types of Data that can be stored in a CDS in different format using different fields

How is the CDM related to CDS

The best practices for handling CDS and CDM

A discussion around data security in the implementation of CDS

Explained the benefits of CDS and CDM to Dynamics 365 Users

A conversation about the latest improvements to data storage in CDS and CDM

The different types of data being introduced to CDS

The importance of Common Data Service when using PowerApps or Power BI

Maya’s views around CDS when it comes to AI in the future

Introduction to minority data and the use cases Maya sees that people are starting to adapt to it

With the separation between Dynamics 365 applications and Data storage with CDS, what support they offer for Dynamics 365 users

The future of CDS

Maya’s long–term views on the possible changes coming to CDS in the next 12 months

Relationship of CDS to Power BI dataflows

What Maya meant by – “when considering data, you should focus on the application need more than just a data need.”

Lessons Maya has learnt and what was the journey like since the split out of relational unstructured data log and log data