FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/190

• 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 

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