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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

Chapter 9: Microsoft Power Platform Integration

One of the most complex parts of any large enterprise Power Platform implementation is usually integrating the solution into the existing IT landscape of the organization. While security integration was covered extensively in Chapter 7, Microsoft Power Platform Security, this chapter is dedicated to integrating the Power Platform solution with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and with customer's existing IT systems and solutions. It is important to understand which integrations can be achieved easily with configurations and which integrations need to use additional components and/or custom development to be able to create proper integration design. As always, the low-code/no-code approach is the best option, but for very complex scenarios, the use of custom development methods needs to be considered.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Power Platform integration overview
  • Integration with...