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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

Presenting CDS and model-driven apps extensibility

CDS is, from an extensibility point of view, the most complex Power Platform component. A lot of business capabilities can be achieved using the standard customization already, though there are many ways to fulfill complex business requirements using automations and client-side or sever-side custom development.

In the following sections, we will explore standard CDS customization, CDS automations, as well as possibilities for custom development. At the end of this section, you will learn about the extensibility of two specific CDS-related components: Power Apps Portals and Unified Service Desk.

Understanding CDS standard customization

CDS standard customization encompasses a lot of different parts of the structure of CDS, offering us the ability to make various changes in order to implement specific customer requirements. Details about the different customization possibilities will be presented in the following sections of...