The audit is an activity that helps companies to improve their operations. It can help in forecasting, productivity, improve efficiency and identify the areas to cut costs. Some significant areas for audit in IT are:
- existing infrastructure components
- hardware
- software and licensing
- subscriptions
Dynamics 365 has the capability to audit application itself. The audit feature helps keep the information log that tracks all data manipulations and user information. So, in other words, audit keeps track of data and user activity.
It helps administrator such as:
- who was accessing the system and when
- who updated specific field value in the record and when
- what was previous value before it was modified
- what action a specific end-user history can recently
- who deleted specific record, many more
These are some of the operations which can be audited:
- create, update, delete and deactivate on record
- changes to sharing privileges of a record
- association or disassociation of record
- changes in a security role
- changes at entity attribute and organisation level and many more
