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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

Application lifecycle management for Power BI

As we already learned in this chapter, Power BI components cannot be included in Power Platform solution packages. Moreover, the Power BI development tools do not provide integration with ALM tools like Azure DevOps yet. The consequence is that there is no possibility to automatically check dependencies between Power BI solution components and the other parts of a Power Platform solution.

So, generally speaking, keeping a strict ALM approach for Power BI is quite challenging. There are, however, certain possibilities to implement an ALM approach explained in the following sections.

Understanding environments in Power BI

Power BI is not related to the Power Platform environments by any means, so that a staging cascade for developing, testing, and deploying Power BI components must be implemented in a different way. It is recommended to use the concept of Power BI workspaces for this purpose, as illustrated in the following diagram...