Book Image

Extending Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps with Power Platform

By : Adrià Ariste Santacreu
Book Image

Extending Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps with Power Platform

By: Adrià Ariste Santacreu

Overview of this book

Uncover the synergy between Microsoft Power Platform and its integration with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) with this essential guide to implementing low-code and no-code concepts to not only extend and enhance F&O but also improve maintainability and speed up development. Systematically exploring Power Platform, this book covers topics such as Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI using real-world scenarios in Dynamics 365 F&O to offer practical insights. You’ll then master the integration of F&O and Power Platform using dual-write and virtual tables, and delve into process automation with Power Automate. The book further deepens your proficiency in Power Apps by showing you how they can be used to extend the F&O functionality and incorporate artificial intelligence using AI Builder and its pre-trained AI models ready to use with your data. Throughout, you’ll gain a solid understanding of the diverse components of Power Platform and how they can transform your Dynamics 365 F&O experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to fully harness the immense potential of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 F&O.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Power Platform
4
Part 2: Extending Dynamics 365 F&O with Power Platform
11
Part 3: Adding AI to Your Flows and Apps
13
Part 4: Dataverse and Power Platform ALM

Dual-Write and Virtual Tables

Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps can be integrated with Dataverse and the Power Platform quite easily. Dual-write and virtual tables (formerly virtual entities) will be the primary ways of getting data into Dataverse (Dual-write) or making it readable in Dataverse (virtual entities). The goal of this chapter is to learn about Dual-write and virtual tables, how the finance and operations environment is linked to a Dataverse environment, and which business scenarios we can solve with them. With these features, you’ll be able to integrate with Dataverse more easily and use some of the Power Platform tools faster.

We will explore the following in this chapter:

  • F&O and Dataverse environment linking
  • Scenarios for Dual-write
  • Scenarios for virtual tables