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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

Integrating with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure

Since Power Platform is a very important member of the family of Microsoft cloud services, it is a legitimate expectation that a Power Platform solution can easily integrate with many of them. In this section, you will learn about the implicit integrations available within certain Dynamics 365 modules, as well as the possibilities and specifics of integrating Power Platform with the two other Microsoft clouds: Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

We'll start by explaining how certain Dynamics 365 applications are implicitly integrated with other Microsoft cloud services.

Introducing implicit Dynamics 365 integrations

As you learned in Chapter 1, Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Overview, there is a big family of Dynamics 365 apps from Microsoft. These applications cover certain business workloads such as sales management, marketing management, customer service management, and so on. Many, if not all,...