You're reading from Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture A guide for architects and decision makers to craft complex solutions tailored to meet business needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800204577

Length 452 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Power Platform

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Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Robert Rybaric

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics

2. Chapter 1: Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure Overview

4. Section 2: The Architecture

5. Chapter 3: Understanding Microsoft's Power Platform Architecture

6. Chapter 4: Tools and Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Application Lifecycle Management

8. Section 3: Implementation

9. Chapter 6: Implementation Approach and Methodologies

10. Chapter 7: Microsoft Power Platform Security

11. Chapter 8: Microsoft Power Platform Extensibility

12. Chapter 9: Microsoft Power Platform Integration

13. Chapter 10: Microsoft Power Platform Data Migration

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Application lifecycle management for Power BI

As we already learned in this chapter, Power BI components cannot be included in Power Platform solution packages. Moreover, the Power BI development tools do not provide integration with ALM tools like Azure DevOps yet. The consequence is that there is no possibility to automatically check dependencies between Power BI solution components and the other parts of a Power Platform solution.

So, generally speaking, keeping a strict ALM approach for Power BI is quite challenging. There are, however, certain possibilities to implement an ALM approach explained in the following sections.

Understanding environments in Power BI

Power BI is not related to the Power Platform environments by any means, so that a staging cascade for developing, testing, and deploying Power BI components must be implemented in a different way. It is recommended to use the concept of Power BI workspaces for this purpose, as illustrated in the following diagram...