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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture Design tailor-made solutions for architects and decision makers to meet complex business requirements

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804612637
Length 534 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section I: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Overview 3. Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure Overview 4. Section II: The Architecture
5. Understanding the Microsoft Power Platform Architecture 6. Power Platform Customization and Development Tools and Techniques 7. Application Lifecycle Management 8. Section III: The Implementation
9. Implementation Approach and Methodologies 10. Microsoft Power Platform Security 11. Microsoft Power Platform Extensibility 12. Microsoft Power Platform Integration 13. Microsoft Power Platform Data Migration 14. Best Practices for Solution Architecture 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index
Appendix

Presenting Power Automate flows

Power Automate is dedicated to providing cross-application and cross-technology automation solutions. Compared to the previously described Dataverse automation capabilities, Power Automate is independent of Dataverse. Power Automate offers two main automation solutions:

  • Cloud flows: The cloud flows technology is used to build automations across IT systems and solutions, having an API, which can be connected using some of the Power Platform data connectors.
  • Desktop flows: The desktop flows technology is used to automate IT systems and solutions that have no possibility to provide an API, so Power Platform connectors cannot be used. Desktop flows are automated by replicating the processes a human user would perform on the IT systems.

Both automation technologies are solution aware so that the flows can be distributed between environments within Power Platform solutions.

Let us now provide some more details about the two types...

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