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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

Introducing tools and techniques

Before we start introducing the various tools that are used for Power Platform solutions development, let's introduce the new paradigm in developing business applications by involving and empowering the citizen developer. Empowering citizen developers so that they can develop simple applications can solve small business needs and bring business value quickly as opposed to engaging large and complex IT projects.

Let's start by introducing the two main categories of developers.

Introducing the citizen developer

The concept of the citizen developer is generally gaining traction in the business world. In the world of Microsoft software, it was possible for business users to create complex Excel sheets using formulas, enhance Excel or Word files with macros, or even create small single purpose databases with Access. But it is the rise of Power Platform that enables the true potential of the citizen developer. A citizen developer can now...