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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

This book is for enterprise architects and decision makers who design solutions for complex business requirements. It teaches you how to use architectural best practices and methodologies to optimize an enterprise-grade solution. You'll gain an understanding of the tools available in the Power Platform suite and how to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components to create a tailor-made solution. Progressing through the book, you'll discover how to address application lifecycle management, security, extensibility, and data migration. This includes Power BI, which often requires a separate approach to the rest of the Power Platform. This book provides you with practical, essential, and concise information. It follows a complete, end-to-end example in every chapter, with diagrams that illustrate the intricacies of Microsoft cloud structure. It has been created by an experienced enterprise architect who actively creates solutions using Microsoft technology. 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. Unlike many other overwhelmingly long and unstructured resources, this book covers essential concepts using one concise yet practical example that is revisited throughout the book. 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 Microsoft Power PI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. You'll also learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect, enabling you to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section I: The Basics
4
Section II: The Architecture
8
Section III: The Implementation
15
Other Books You May Enjoy
16
Index
Appendix

Getting an overview of data migration

Data migration into a Power Platform solution is one of the most important parts of an implementation project. However, it is often underestimated, and not enough time and resources are allocated for this task. It is really important to understand the importance of data migration, the possible approaches, and the tools and techniques that can be used to implement it. Without a well-thought-out plan and appropriate time and resources, the data migration can lead to last-minute project delivery stress and poor-quality migrated data.

In the following sections, you will learn about the different high-level approaches for importing data into a Dataverse-based application.

Migration as part of integration

Often, a Power Platform solution is integrated with a lot of existing IT systems and solutions, some of which hold the required data that needs to be migrated into the solution. This is a fortunate situation since you may be able to reuse...