Data entity

A data entity in Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management is a denormalised, stable view of one or more underlying tables, presented as a single shape with consistent field names. Microsoft ships hundreds — Customer, Vendor, Item, Sales Order Header, Sales Order Line, GL Journal Voucher, Project Transaction. Data entities are the unit consumed by the Data Management Framework (DMF) for bulk import / export and by the Recurring Integrations API for scheduled HTTP-based integration. Composite entities group related entities for transactional import (e.g. sales order header + lines as one atomic unit). Data entities are versioned so consuming integrations don't break when underlying tables evolve.