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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. empowering the project team

Based on the understanding of the Power Platform architecture, Contoso Inc. was able to make key decisions about the Microsoft cloud tenant structure, Power Platform environments, and client types and establish a foundation for governance, administration, and monitoring. The next step in preparing the Power Platform implementation project will be to understand the toolset necessary for managing the project, as well as configuring, customizing, developing, testing, and deploying the solution. Contoso Inc. empowers the project team with all they will need to successfully start the project's execution.

Let's start by explaining the concept of the citizen developer versus the IT pro developer to understand the different toolsets used by these two categories of developers.