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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
4.5 (2)
Book Image

Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

4.5 (2)
By: Hugo Herrera

Overview of this book

If you’ve been looking for a way to unlock the potential of Microsoft Power Platform and take your career as a solution architect to the next level, then look no further—this practical guide covers it all. Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect’s Handbook will equip you with everything you need to build flexible and cost-effective end-to-end solutions. Its comprehensive coverage ranges from best practices surrounding fit-gap analysis, leading design processes, and navigating existing systems to application lifecycle management with Microsoft Azure DevOps, security compliance monitoring, and third-party API integration. The book takes a hands-on approach by guiding you through a fictional case study throughout the book, allowing you to apply what you learn as you learn it. At the end of the handbook, you’ll discover a set of mock tests for you to embed your progress and prepare for PL-600 Microsoft certification. Whether you want to learn how to work with Power Platform or want to take your skills from the intermediate to advanced level, this book will help you achieve that and ensure that you’re able to add value to your organization as an expert solution architect.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
4
Part 2: Requirements Analysis, Solution Envisioning, and the Implementation Roadmap
10
Part 3: Architecting the Power Platform Solution
15
Part 4: The Build – Implementing Solid Power Platform Solutions
20
Part 5: Power Platform Solution Architect Certification Prep

Chapter 9: Effective Power Platform Data Modeling

A solid data model is critical for successfully implementing a Power Platform solution. Data models are the foundation for the business logic and the user interface through which staff and clients interact with the system.

In this chapter, you will learn how to create highly visual designs that translate complex business requirements into a model that helps the organization build a solid foundation for the implementation of Power Platform applications. You will learn how to decide when to integrate with external data and when to import it into Dataverse. By the end of this chapter, you will understand the decision-making process behind creating custom tables, selecting data types, and creating reference data used by Power Platform applications.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Translating complex business requirements into visual data models
  • Deciding factors for integrating or importing...