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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

Contoso Inc. Power Platform solution design

Contoso Inc. have made themselves familiar with all the extensibility options for the Power Platform cloud services and components. Together with their implementation partner, Proseware Inc., they are working on the solution design, for which they have made a series of decisions.

In this section, we will describe their design decisions in more detail.

Model-driven apps

The project teams at Contoso Inc. have understood the concept of model-driven applications. They have decided to use this capability to design specific model-driven apps based on the Dynamics 365 modules they are planning to use. This will make the adoption of the Dynamics 365 workloads much easier, since every user group will have just their main capabilities available in the tailored model-driven apps. Contoso Inc. will use security role assignment to distribute the right apps to the right user groups.

Contoso Inc. have also decided to make use of the site map...