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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. starts architecting their planned Power Platform solution

After a detailed analysis of the available products and services in the three Microsoft cloud offerings; that is, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure, Contoso Inc. has made a series of high-level decisions with regards to which products will be part of their future solution. Now is the time to start architecting their planned Power Platform solution, and Contoso Inc. will make themselves familiar with the main components of the Power Platform architecture in order to carry out the proper preparation steps for the Power Platform implementation project.

Let's start by familiarizing ourselves with the main features of the Power Platform architecture in order to be able to design our own solution architecture.