The Common Data Model was today as promised made available in preview through PowerApps, and gave us insight on how it works. You need to take a log at the following blog posts. Your entry point for starting to explore CDM is http://powerapps.microsoft.com

Let’s jump past
all introductions take a small look at the products made available the sample demo data when the CDM database is created. After the sample CDM database is created you will have access to the entities here

Then find the entity named Product. Then click on the “Open in Excel”

After logging in I start to see some similarities to what we have in the new Dynamics AX. It’s the same excel app on the right side.

It is even the Contoso data, and as highlighted here I’m showing the item 1000 – the good old Surface Pro 128 Gb J

Now start your journey into the CDM. It will be the backbone and foundation of our entire Dynamics 365 stack.