Resco’s vision unveiled at Next 2025

At the recent Resco Next 2025 conference, we unveiled our product roadmap. It’s designed to help you build, customize, and scale frontline solutions faster and more effectively in the AI era – whether you’re developing for your own organization, delivering projects for clients, or building your own industry solution.

We’re doubling down on what makes a difference in the field: better mobile experiences, smarter inspections, and faster app development. And we’ll support all of this with practical AI – built not for the hype, but to solve real problems and speed up the work that matters.

Here’s a quick look at what’s coming and why it matters presented by Resco’s CEO Andrew Lorraine and Ivan Stano, Chief Sales Officer, at Resco Next 2025.

This article is adapted from a Resco Next 2025 report originally published on MSDynamicsWorld.com. MSDW is a media partner of Resco Next.

Mobile: Work faster, even offline

Mobile users need speed, stability, and a UI that works where they are. That’s why we’re continuing to support and bring major improvements to our native Resco mobile apps across all major operating systems to equip you with smooth performance and productivity.

Resco’s offline-first sync engine, which distinguishes itself with performance many times faster than competitors, is getting even better. The sync engine will now incorporate the OpenTelemetry protocol to simplify management, along with AI-driven features to make complex configuration simpler.

We’re also upgrading Woodford, our core mobile app builder. With new AI assistants, you’ll be able to create rules, forms, and views more quickly and intuitively.

This is all about saving time for makers, giving you smarter shortcuts, more control, and faster time to value when building custom mobile experiences.

And if you’re using Power Apps, the new Model Driven App Converter will let you instantly turn Power Apps into Resco apps. You can compare the two side by side, helping you choose what works best for your teams and various scenarios. As Ivan Stano said:

“We know that a lot of customers and partners are exploring Power Apps, evaluating whether it can be the one application that they can use across the organization’s departments and teams. That’s why we are introducing the MDA converter. We can easily convert your Power Apps experience into Resco and see side by side how the performance and capabilities compare.”

For app creators juggling multiple environments and products, this makes your evaluation and build process much more efficient. You don’t have to guess, you can test, compare, and deliver faster.

You’ll also see a redesign of core mobile UI elements, like the shell, views, forms, dashboards, and especially the calendar, which is getting a long-awaited upgrade – and with it, improvements to the overall user experience as well.

Data collection: One experience, everywhere, AI-enhanced

We’re pushing inspections into a new phase with our Gen 2 experience, designed to deliver a unified, cross-platform forms solution that works seamlessly for both internal and external users across Resco apps, Microsoft Teams, browsers, Power Apps, Power Pages, and more. The vision is to transform how you manage data collection across multiple platforms, licenses, or user types.

It will incorporate AI-driven form creation and updates, offering suggestions to support regulatory needs, internal procedures, and usage patterns within a cleaner, more user-friendly interface.

We’re launching a preview of this with the second generation Questionnaire Player. The new Questionnaire Player Gen 2 will run independently from Woodford which opens doors for faster updates, contextual AI-driven assistants, and smoother user experience. While in closed beta now, the project will bring new features and updates later in 2025.

We’re also expanding what you can do with reports. Through our Power Automate connector, you’ll be able to create PDFs automatically, store them in SharePoint, or pass JSON data into Microsoft Fabric or Power BI. A new Form Performance Manager will help analyze data and form usage in more detail.

All of it adds up to data collection forms that are easier to build, easier to use, and more insightful for your team.

Looking forward: Partnerships and future directions

We’re strengthening our work with partners like Microsoft and Salesforce, and expanding our collaboration with Esri – especially for complex mapping requirements in utilities and similar sectors.

Our aim is for everything we build to fit into a modular toolkit: fast mobile apps, smarter inspections, and flexible components. And we’re designing this toolkit for you, the makers, the developers, the people solving real-world problems with technology.

Whether you’re building a lightweight Power App or a full-featured offline solution, we’re making sure the tools are there to help you move fast, build a stronger Microsoft Partner practice, and deliver productivity and great user experiences to your end users.