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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 Power Virtual Agent bots

In this section, we will start with getting a basic understanding of a bot and the different types of bots that you will come across, before jumping into building a Power Virtual Agent chatbot. This chatbot can be integrated into your Teams experience and help answer questions about the Health Scanner app and the scenarios surrounding it.

A bot (derived from robot) usually refers to any autonomous program that runs based on software code written by a developer and often needs a trigger (the clicking of a link or a button, surfing a website, or even a preconfigured date and time becoming current) to be executed. A bot, just like a robot, can be used to do mundane tasks that humans get bored doing repeatedly. However, since these bots could trigger tasks that can run in the background (without any visual interface for the user), they are often misused by hackers, with malicious intent, to steal personal data or credentials when the user clicks...