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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. cloud maturity

Contoso Inc., our fictitious company, has recognized that they are at the beginning of their cloud journey and after they have decided to implement a complex Power Platform solution, they must now analyze the possibilities afforded by the other two Microsoft cloud offerings in order to enhance the capabilities of the Power Platform, to integrate the Power Platform with other useful cloud services, and to provide a foundation for integrating the new Power Platform solution into their existing IT ecosystem.

Contoso Inc. has an existing Microsoft 365 subscription, which is being enrolled across the company. Currently, however, they are only using the cloud identity for their users.

Contoso Inc. does not yet have Microsoft Azure subscription.

They need to analyze the possibilities of the various Microsoft 365 services to be used within the new Power Platform solution and also need to perform an analysis of Microsoft Azure to better understand the various...