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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. 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 Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. 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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Presenting canvas apps and Power Automate extensibility

Canvas apps and Power Automate are Power Platform components that don't provide any ready-to-use solutions. Both of these solution components are platforms for building mobile applications or automation and integration scenarios.

In the following sections, you'll understand how to use these technologies beyond the usual app or flow design.

Introducing Canvas apps and Power Automate customization

Canvas apps are typical representations of the low-code/no-code approach to building apps primarily for mobile devices, though canvas apps can also run on the usual desktop devices. Canvas apps have the following main characteristics:

  • The primary use of canvas apps is to implement mobile applications, thus leveraging and connecting to existing IT systems and deploying within the organization for authenticated users only.
  • Canvas apps are built using a typical mobile app development approach. This is done by...