Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture: A guide for architects and decision makers to craft complex solutions tailored to meet business needs - Softcover

Robert Rybaric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800204574 ISBN 13: 9781800204577

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Gain a 360-degree view of Microsoft Power Platform and combine the benefits of Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Azure, and Dynamics 365 to build an enterprise application platform for your organization

Key Features

• Explore various Microsoft cloud components and find out how they can enhance your Power Platform solutions
• Get to grips with Microsoft Power Platform's security and extensibility, integration, and data migration models
• Discover architectural best practices for designing complex enterprise solutions

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Understand various Dynamics 365 CRM, ERP, and AI modules for creating Power Platform solutions
• Enhance Power Platform with Microsoft 365 and Azure
• Find out which regions, staging environments, and user licensing groups need to be employed when creating enterprise solutions
• Implement sophisticated security by using various authentication and authorization techniques
• Extend Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate to create custom applications
• Integrate your solution with various in-house Microsoft components or third-party systems using integration patterns

Who this book is for

This book is for enterprise architects and technical decision makers who want to craft complex solutions using Microsoft Power Platform to serve growing business needs and to stay competitive in the modern IT world. A basic understanding of Microsoft Power Platform will help you to get started with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Overview
2. Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure Overview
3. Understanding Microsoft's Power Platform Architecture
4. Tools and Techniques
5. Application Lifecycle Management
6. Implementation Approach and Methodologies
7. Microsoft Power Platform Security
8. Microsoft Power Platform Extensibility
9. Microsoft Power Platform Integration
10. Microsoft Power Platform Data Migration

About this title

About the Author

Robert Rybaric is a Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 architect and certified trainer. He also holds several other certifications in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft BizTalk Server, TOGAF 9, ITIL 2011, IBM, and Oracle. Robert has worked as an architect for the Microsoft Corporation on numerous Microsoft Dynamics 365 presale and project implementation activities for enterprise customers across Europe. He is now a freelance architect and trainer, implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions for global customers, and leads many Microsoft Power Platform training sessions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800204574
• ISBN 13: 9781800204577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452