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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

Data migration challenges and best practices

Data migration is a key part of each large enterprise Power Platform solution implementation. As part of the overall project, it is often underestimated and not planned properly. There are a lot of challenges that need to be considered and included in the project planning and execution phase, as described in the following sections.

Planning and effort estimation

One of the most observed challenges for data migration projects within Power Platform implementations is underestimating the overall effort, project duration, complexity, and timing. Data migration for large enterprise solutions is always a separate project that must be carefully planned and started at the beginning of the overall implementation project. This helps ensure the migration solution is ready at going-live time.

Scoping the migration

In a large Power Platform implementation, at the beginning, it is often required by the customer to migrate every possible data...