Roadmap

Purpose

This chapter describes planned capabilities and platform extensions currently in development or under consideration for the ConfigCompare Platform. Roadmap items indicate direction; they are not commitments to deliver by any date.

Planned platform extensions

Business Central Snapshots and Comparisons

Extends the ConfigCompare Platform to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Snapshot and comparison capabilities will enable Configuration Governance for Business Central implementations alongside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management deployments. Whether this is delivered through the existing ConfigSnap and ConfigCompare components or a new component is not yet settled.

Dataverse and Power Platform Snapshots

Brings Snapshot capture and Configuration Governance to Microsoft Dataverse and Power Platform applications. Initial capability focuses on Snapshot capture for Dataverse configuration; a component name for Dataverse support is not yet settled. Comparison for Dataverse will follow Snapshot capture; Business Central comparison is planned in parallel.

External Comparison Client

Provides comparison for customers and partners external to ConfigCompare installations, extending the Comparison responsibility of the ConfigCompare component to external deployments. The External Comparison Client enables comparison of ERP configuration Snapshots without requiring direct access to core ConfigCompare infrastructure.

External Snapshot Client

Enables Snapshot capture for customers and partners external to ConfigCompare installations, extending the Snapshot capture responsibility of the ConfigSnap component to external deployments. The External Snapshot Client calls deterministic APIs provided by ConfigCompare across supported products (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, Business Central, Dataverse) to capture and standardise point-in-time configuration Snapshots.

Planned feature enhancements

Structured BLOB Comparison

Adds pre-processing that unpacks binary configuration (BLOBs) of known formats, such as approval workflow definitions, so that their contents become comparable. Binary configuration is currently compared by content signature: a change is detected deterministically, but the contents are not decoded (see Chapter 05: Comparison Engine). Structured BLOB comparison will make the contents of supported binary formats visible in comparison results.

Central Command Center Governance Dashboard

Introduces a central dashboard to Central Command Center, presenting comparison results and governance status across the estate. The dashboard is a consumption surface for existing deterministic output. As with all Central Command Center capabilities, it orchestrates and presents; the comparison logic remains inside the ConfigCompare engine (see Chapter 18: Central Command Center).

MCP support

Adds Model Context Protocol (MCP) support as an orchestration and access layer for AI-assisted scenarios. MCP routes and sequences requests against the platform’s APIs. It adds no comparison logic; Deterministic Comparison remains the source of truth (see Chapter 09: AI Insights).

Planned utilities

Security setup extraction and Power BI integration

Provides external deployment of security configuration extraction for use in Power BI visualisations. Organisations can deploy a package external to ConfigCompare to extract environment-specific security setup information and visualise mismatches between the access users are granted and the access they actually use in their ERP environment. This supports evidence-based security review and licence optimisation initiatives.