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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
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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 7: Power Platform Fit Gap Analysis

Fit gap analysis is a process that identifies where gaps exist between business or operational requirements and the system capabilities. In this chapter, you will learn how to perform a practical fit gap analysis for our case study at Inveriance Corps. You will learn how to align Power Platform capabilities, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure components to organizational requirements. We will also consider AppSource apps and third-party solutions for inclusion.

Power Platform licensing and API limits will be considered during the assessment process. The usage of Proof of Concepts (POCs) will be discussed as a means of validating a solution’s ability to solve specific requirements. Having identified the optimal solution, you will then learn how to determine the overall scope for the solution, setting the right expectations upfront.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introduction...