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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You’ll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Getting an overview of extensibility

The ultimate goal of the Power Platform cloud service is to give a product family to customers, making it possible for them to build business applications quickly, easily, and with less custom development effort. Power Platform components offer a lot of business value already by default, by leveraging the out-of-the-box capabilities. In addition, all of those components offer a lot of extensibility options. There are four levels of extensibility for such components, as illustrated in the following diagram:

Figure 8.1 – Power Platform extensibility options

As we can see, the options are as follows:

  • Standard capabilities: Some of the Power Platform components can be theoretically used as they are, and this is true specifically for Dynamics 365 apps, which are already implementing business workloads. However, in most cases, it is necessary to extend the standard capabilities to cover specific customer requirements...