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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
6
Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
13
Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Application Life cycle Management

In this section, we are going to see various aspects of an application's life cycle and how they can be managed. ALM is a very broad subject and, for the purpose of this book and the intended audience, we will cover the basic aspects needed by a citizen developer to build an application and maintain and govern various application components and properties.

ALM for Power Platform hinges on three core elements, which are solutions, Dataverse, and the source control repository. Let's see how these elements help with ALM in the following sections.

Solutions

As seen in Chapter 5, Understanding Microsoft Dataverse, of this book, all the application changes, along with metadata changes and customizations done to components of Microsoft Dataverse, are packaged into what is called solutions. You can compare solutions to installables such as .msi, .app, or .exe, or any application that you usually download from a public marketplace and install...