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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

Summary

This chapter was full of useful information for integrating a Power Platform solution into other Microsoft cloud services, as well as into existing IT systems and the solutions of an enterprise customer.

You have learned about the broad standard integration capabilities of Power Platform with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure services. You have seen that many of the latest Dynamics 365 capabilities are no longer implemented in Power Platform itself, but are instead integrated with very specific cloud services in other Microsoft clouds. You have also learned about the different ways to perform frontend integration for certain Power Platform components. You now know that a backend integration can be implemented in a lot of possible ways and using a lot of various technologies, and that for every integration pattern, there are some useful solution approaches. Finally, you became familiar with some proven integration best practices.

With this knowledge, you should be able...