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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

Deciding factors for integrating or importing external data sources

Power Platform applications are capable of accessing data from a wide variety of sources. Solution architects identify the data required for the operation of Power Platform solutions and define the best way for applications to access this data.

Let’s look at the locations where external data that’s used by Power Platform applications can be found.

Dataverse

Dataverse is the ideal location for data that does not already exist in another system and is the default storage location for most Power Platform implementations. Dataverse is typically considered a good option for new applications and business processes. Data that’s managed within Dataverse benefits from its enhanced administration and process automation capabilities.

Copying data to Dataverse

External data that’s required by Power Platform applications may be copied into Dataverse, either as a one-off task, a scheduled...