Importing External Data Into the Common Data Service

One of the new features of the Common Data Service is to use Power Query to create custom entities that are linked back to external data. This data could reside in a number of different places, including OData queries.

The good thing is that Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations allows us to surface all of the data entities through the OData connection which means that we can use this to incorporate direct connections from the Finance & Operations into the Common Data Service entities and th...