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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Understanding Governance in Dataverse for Teams

Today, governance of enterprise resources is of paramount importance, since it enables organizations to swiftly adopt digital transformation while ensuring adequate guardrails are provided to ensure compliance to organization- and industry-level policies. To efficiently govern these resources, policies are crafted and implemented on resources. Governance policies are mostly focused on the areas we will cover in the following sections.

Architecture

Governance of architecture mainly focuses on having an appropriate approach to how data is organized within a tenant—for example, what are the different environment creation policies within the organization? Some organizations will be more particular about the naming convention of environments and default roles and permissions, and so on.

Security

We have already seen some of the best security principles to be followed in the first section, Implementing a security framework...