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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

Understanding customer enterprise architecture and the environment

One of the key components to consider when planning a Power Platform implementation is the customer's own enterprise architecture. There is almost never the luxury to implement a greenfield solution for a new organization that has no existing IT ecosystem, no dependencies, no integration points, no legacy applications, and no established IT policies. A Power Platform solution will always be deeply integrated into the existing ecosystem and it needs to play well inside the same. That's why it's very important to understand the enterprise architecture and include it in the high-level architecting and designing from the very beginning. Here are some enterprise architecture considerations to evaluate:

  • What is the organization's level of affinity to the Microsoft technology in general?
  • Is the organization prepared to accept a cloud solution?
  • Does the organization require the cloud solution...