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Dynamics 365 Application Development

By : Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana
Book Image

Dynamics 365 Application Development

By: Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is the most trusted name in enterprise-level customer relationship management. The latest version of Dynamics CRM comes with the important addition of exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. It comes straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements. This book will introduce you to the components of the new designer tools, such as SiteMap, App Module, and Visual Designer for Business Processes. Going deeper, this book teaches you how to develop custom SaaS applications leveraging the features of PowerApps available in Dynamics 365. Further, you will learn how to automate business processes using Microsoft Flow, and then we explore Web API, the most important platform update in Dynamics 365 CRM. Here, you'll also learn how to implement Web API in custom applications. You will learn how to write an Azure-aware plugin to design and integrate cloud-aware solutions. The book concludes with configuring services using newly released features such as Editable grids, Data Export Service, LinkedIn Integration, Relationship Insights, and Live Assist
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Overview of PowerApps in Dynamics 365


PowerApps is a service that securely makes a connection with the data source, such as Azure, Dynamics 365, or Office 365, and minimizes the security concern of the organization about the data. Any user can design in PowerApps without writing a code. It is very convenient to publish these PowerApps.

From an employee's perspective, PowerApps provides agility to work in the following ways:

  • Provides the ability to create an app quickly
  • Provides the ability to create an app that works on every device
  • Provides Microsoft Office's experience on the app
  • Provides use of built-in Connection to make a connection with PowerApps for a cloud service such as Dynamic 365 or Office 365

From a developer's perspective, PowerApps provides the following features:

  • Inclusion of Azure service into PowerApps, increasing performance and speed at user end
  • Ease of creating additional data connection and API of any existing business system
  • Reliability and robustness in management of organization...