Building Solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform: Solving Everyday Problems in the Enterprise
- Length: 300 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- Publication Date: 2023-02-14
- ISBN-10: 1098117549
- ISBN-13: 9781098117542
- Sales Rank: #2386441 (See Top 100 Books)
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.
- 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
Preface
Why I Wrote This Book
How the Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
O’Reilly Online Learning
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
1. Rapid Innovation with the Power Platform
The Rise of Low-Code/No-Code Solutions
The Major Tools in the Power Platform
Setup Before We Get Started
2. The Core and More
Power Apps
Power Automate
Power BI
Power Virtual Agents
Power Pages
Additional Services, Features, and More on AI
Connectors
Microsoft Dataverse
The AI-Based Services
Power Virtual Agents
AI Builder
A look at Azure Cognitive Services
Conclusion
3. Getting to Know Power Apps
Getting Familiar with Power Apps
What Types of Apps Can I Build?
Learning and Getting Inspired with Templates
Taking a Tour Around a Canvas App
Power Apps Fundamentals: Screens, Controls, and Functions
Connectors
Microsoft Power Fx
Let’s Get Building!
Creating a Data Source from Excel
Building an App from Data
A Closer Look at How It Works
Making Changes to the App
Let’s See the App in Action
Conclusion
4. Getting to Know Microsoft Dataverse
Creating an Environment
Creating Tables
Adding Columns and Creating Relationships
Adding Data to the Tables
Editing Forms for Tables
Dataverse and Model-Driven Apps
Let’s Build a Model-Driven App!
Conclusion
5. Getting to Know Power Automate
Types of Flow
Cloud Flows
Desktop Flow
Business Process Flow
Triggers, Connectors, and Actions
Triggers
Connectors
Actions
Templates
Let’s Build a Flow!
Conclusion
6. Getting to Know Power BI
Understanding the Basics
Workspaces
Datasets
Dashboards and Reports
Workbooks
Apps
Power BI Desktop
Install Power BI Desktop
Let’s Get Building!
Importing and Managing Datasets
Adding and Configuring Visualizations
Slicing the Data
Publishing from Power BI Desktop
Conclusion
7. Getting to Know Power Virtual Agents
Understanding Key Concepts
Topics
Entities
Canvas
Test Bot
Channels
Let’s Build a Bot!
Conclusion
8. Getting to Know AI Builder
Getting Started
A Brief AI Builder Tour
Understanding Models
Let’s Get Building!
Conclusion
9. Robotic Process Automation with Power Automate for Desktop
Power Automate for Desktop and Desktop Flows
Setup Before We Get Started
Actions and Controls
Variables, UI Elements, and Images
Let’s Build a Web Scraper!
Conclusion
10. Continuing the Conversation on Chatbots
Using Prebuilt and Custom Entities
Proactive Conversations with Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents
Conclusion
11. Using AI Builder Models
Integrating AI Builder and Power Apps
Integrating AI Builder and Power Automate
Conclusion
12. Power Automate and Azure Cognitive Services
General Cognitive Services Setup
Integrating Sentiment Analysis
Integrating the Computer Vision API
Conclusion
13. Getting to Know Power Pages
Getting Started
A Tour of the Design Studio
Pages and Navigation
Sections, Content, and Components
Styling
Data Workspace
Conclusion
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