Common Data Service

The common Data Service is an Azure-based cloud storage service designed to gather data from multiple applications and make it centralized to users. It is referred to as a common data model, which contain data entities. Data entities contains data fields, which store data. Entities are similar to a table of the data source. PowerApps generates a good app from the Common Data Service.

Here are the following advantages of using the Common Data Service:

• Importing of data into custom or standard entities
• Creation of custom entities that will support different scenarios and applications
• Capability to add custom fields to the standard entity
• Capability to collaborate custom and standard entities into the app
• Increase productivity by add-ins to access data from Microsoft Excel and Outlook
• Use of role-based security for custom and standard entities to achieve security
• Capability to use predefined data pick list, such as country, and salutation

Every entity includes a set of records that...