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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

Getting an overview of data migration

Data migration into a Power Platform solution is one of the most important parts of an implementation project. However, it is often underestimated, and not enough time and resources are allocated for this job. It is really important to understand the importance of data migration, the possible solution approaches, and the tools and techniques that can be used to implement it. In the following sections, you will learn about the different high-level approaches for importing data into a CDS-based application.

Learning about migration as part of integration

Often, a Power Platform solution is integrated with a lot of existing IT systems and solutions, some of which hold the required data that needs to be migrated into Power Platform. This is a fortunate situation since you may be able to reuse the integration solution for the data migration process.

In this case, it is better to call this approach initial data load, rather than data migration...