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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

Preface

Microsoft Power Platform is a very popular collection of cloud services for building business applications quickly, efficiently, and using the low-code/no-code approach. There are a huge amount of possibilities when using this platform. You can use Power Apps to build business applications for PC or mobile devices. You can build publicly available portals with Power Pages. With Power Automate, you can create cross-application automation and integration solutions. Power BI is a well-established and flexible enterprise analytical and reporting tool. Power Virtual Agents can be used to quickly build and integrate chatbots. And that’s just a brief overview.

In this book, you will learn about the various components of the Power Platform from an architect’s point of view. You will learn how to architect and design complex Power Platform solutions for large and global organizations. You will dive deep into Power Platform security, extensibility, integration, and data migration. This knowledge will cumulate into setting up an enterprise implementation project and successfully implement a Power Platform solution for a large organization.

While reading the book, you will accompany a fictitious global corporation called Contoso Inc. on their journey into the Power Platform cloud. You will see how they adopt the products, prepare the implementation project, learn all the aspects of a complex solution, and take decisions in line with best practices, all while following internal policies and rules.

After reading this book, you should have full clarity about the Power Platform technology and how to use it to deliver a robust, scalable, and user-friendly solution to your clients.