Enterprise automation scenarios with PAD
We have already encountered many examples in this book, sometimes applicable to enterprises and sometimes to citizen scenarios. As we have also seen, PAD is a natural part of Power Platform and is therefore suitable for all applications that involve connecting locally installed applications. Nevertheless, care should be taken to ensure that the overall architecture also fits the requirements and the circumstances. Furthermore, there is usually always more than one way to implement a requirement. In our example, we want to map the following scenario:
- A company has external vendors who sell specific products or services to the company’s customers.
- For each customer, sales opportunities exist in an internal CRM system represented by Dynamics 365 (Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)), which represents the potential business. The internal system is not accessible to external sellers.
- External vendors are managed by internal staff...