Название: Building Solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform: Solving Everyday Problems in the Enterprise (Early Release)
Автор: Jason Rivera
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2021-12-14
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

With the accelerating speed of business and the increasing dependence on technology, companies today are significantly changing the way they build in-house business solutions. Many now use low-code and no code technologies to help them deal with specific issues, but that's just the beginning. With this practical guide, power users and developers will discover ways to resolve everyday challenges by building end-to-end solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform.

Author Jason Rivera, who specializes in SharePoint and the Microsoft 365 solution architecture, provides a comprehensive overview of how to use the Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions that address tactical business needs. By learning key components of the platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, you'll be able to build low-code and no code applications, automate repeatable business processes, and create interactive reports from available data.

If this were a traditional project leveraging modern web technologies like Angular or React for the front end, a SQL backend, a reporting layer, Azure Functions, unit testing, code reviews, etc, the team composition would likely have been 2 developers with at least one being a senior level, a project manager, a database engineer, and potentially a UI/UX developer, a quality assurance engineer, and business analyst. That project likely would’ve taken roughly 4-8 weeks and if a team of people were hired to build that solution, it would cost tens of thousands of dollars per week in the US vs the 1-1,5 business days that it took me to build a prototype.

You might be thinking, “well, you probably have a lot of experience with the Power Platform and build these types of solutions all the time.” I can tell you that while I do work with these tools quite a bit today and often do projects, presentations and demos involving these products, at that time I only dabbled with the tools. I had maybe 2 Power App solution under my belt and a handful of Power Automate solutions - before it was called Power Automate - so I wouldn’t say by any means that I was an expert with these tools at the time. This real-world example should illustrate the power of the Power Platform and I only mentioned two of the apps so far!

Learn how the Power Platform apps work together
Incorporate AI into the Power Platform without extensive ML or AI knowledge
Create end-to-end solutions to solve tactical business needs, including data collection, process automation, and reporting
Build AI-based solutions using Power Virtual Agents and AI Builder