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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)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
6
Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
13
Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Chapter 5: Understanding Microsoft Dataverse

In the previous chapter, we learned how to augment an application with complex data types such as files and attachments, as well as build relationships between tables and navigate between screens. This chapter is intended to provide a glimpse into the capabilities of Microsoft Dataverse as a data platform, which will be useful in evaluating the upgrade options once your application starts to mature and needs more enterprise governance, capabilities, and capacity. Once you have developed a good understanding of Microsoft Dataverse architecture, we will look at the situations where you may want to consider upgrading from Microsoft Dataverse for Teams to Microsoft Dataverse.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Uncovering Microsoft Dataverse Layers
  • Considering an upgrade from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse

Let's start by removing the covers and peeking under the hood of Microsoft Dataverse...