Название: Building Solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform: Solving Everyday Problems in the Enterprise (Seventh Early Release)
Автор: Jason Rivera
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2022-10-10
Страниц: 300
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 98.0 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.

The most significant change that occurred when writing this book came in May 2022 when Microsoft announced a new member of the Power Platform, Power Pages. A new chapter was added and images had to be updated. Several chapters were also edited to address the newest addition.

Starting in Chapter 1, I describe a real world scenario where the Power Platform solved an immediate need very quickly when compared to how long it might take to build a comparable solution with code. I also walk you through setting up a developer tenant that will provide you with most of the tools that you’ll need to build the examples throughout this book.

Chapter 2 focuses on providing an overview of the tools that make up the Power Platform, the common services that connect these tools and I also write about complementary AI services that we can use to build solutions. After Chapter 2, each chapter is dedicated to a specific part of the Power Platform. I’ll guide you through the tools, walk you through the user interface, describe important features, and walk you step by step through building a solution. The solutions in each chapter are based in part on real world solutions.

Chapters 10-12 introduce you to artificial intelligence and I show you how simple it is to build AI based solutions. Finally, we end the book by introducing Microsoft Power Pages which was added to the Power Platform in May 2022.

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