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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 frontend integration patterns and solution approaches

In this section, we are going to discuss the most common frontend integration patterns for CDS applications. Frontend integration can be used for a variety of reasons, such as to embed some third-party content on a CDS user interface or vice versa, or to perform client-side requests to third-party solutions. It is even possible to use certain capabilities of the Power Platform components to fully control the behavior of legacy IT solutions on the client-side. Let's start by describing the client-side embedding options.

Embedding third-party content into CDS

CDS applications allow us to embed third-party content into CDS entity forms and dashboards. In both cases, the integration is implemented using the IFrame approach. An IFrame is an area on the entity form or dashboard where URL-based content can be embedded into. In the simplest case, this content is static and does not depend on the context of the entity...