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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

Contoso Inc. designing the Power Platform integration

Contoso Inc. is progressing very well with the design and development of the Power Platform solution components. They were able to gain the necessary clarity on the extensibility options and have taken a number of architecture and design decisions in terms of how to build the Power Platform components. The next step in their journey is to understand how a Power Platform solution can be integrated into their existing IT landscape.

Contoso Inc. is a large enterprise global company with a lot of existing IT systems, many of which will still be used after the Power Platform solution is implemented. Most of these IT systems are operated on-premise in their own data centers, but Contoso Inc. is also using some specialized cloud services. They have assessed their cloud maturity as medium, having some experiences with operating cloud solutions, but the planned Power Platform solution will be the largest cloud project so far. They are...