Microsoft Power Platform Up and Running: Learn to Analyze Data, Create Solutions, Automate Processes, and Develop Virtual Agents with Low Code Programming

by Robert Rybaric

Length: 346 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: BPB Publications
Publication Date: 2022-09-26
ISBN-10: 9355512023
ISBN-13: 9789355512024
Sales Rank: #3218518 (See Top 100 Books)

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Prepare yourself for the digital transformation with the Microsoft Power Platform

Key Features

Learn using concrete examples, minimal theoretical coverage, and practical Power Platform illustrations.
Explore the interactive understanding of the no-code concept and various Power Platform components for building intelligent systems.
Learn to develop robust end-to-end applications using numerous solutions provided in each chapter.

Description

The author of ‘Microsoft Power Platform Up and Running’ is an experienced subject expert on technology, so the book is engaging, well-illustrated, and aims to make it easier to implement the technology in your daily life. The book covers all aspects of the Power Platform in an efficient and easy-to-understand manner, and it is accompanied by a series of practical exercises. The author also makes every effort to ensure that even a non-techie can begin using a power platform after reading this book.

The book begins with the basics, explaining what low-code and no-code are and showing how to maximize efficiency in creating business applications for one’s organization. Next, the book describes the Microsoft Power Platform’s foundation, as well as all its components and services. Readers will begin with practical exercises right away, beginning with provisioning a Power Platform environment. Next, the book delves deeper into the Power Platform components such as Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Towards the end, the book explains practical exercises for each feature or service where you will gradually build a small business solution for a fictitious organization, Project Wizards, Inc.

Throughout the book, you’ll discover every component of power platform, including Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, in building exciting and valuable solutions to your needs.

What you will learn

Learn to use Microsoft’s Power Platform and its various components like a champ.
Efficiently manage Microsoft Dataverse to build data models.
Take lessons in Power Automate and Power Apps to develop automation solutions and business apps.
Create analytical reports and dashboards using the creative Power BI tool.
Gain knowledge of implementing and managing Power Platform’s administration, security, and governance in practice.

Who this book is for

This book is geared toward business managers, business analysts, IT professionals, and anyone interested in bringing modernization to their company’s daily operations. You don’t need to have any prior experience with the power platform.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Author
Preface
Errata
Table of Contents
1. Introducing Microsoft Power Platform
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objective
    Business IT in the 21st century
    The low-code/no-code paradigm
    Power Platform fundamentals
    Power Platform components
        Microsoft Dataverse
        Power Apps
        Power Automate
        Power BI
        Power Virtual Agents
        AI Builder
        Data connectors
        On-premises data gateway
        The fusion development
    Power Platform licensing overview
        Microsoft 365/Office 365 licensing
        Power Platform standalone licensing
        Dynamics 365 licensing
        Power BI licensing
        Power Platform trials
        Power Platform developer plan
        Power Platform pay-as-you-go (consumption-based) licensing
        Summary
    Power Platform system requirements
    How to start with Power Platform
        Power Platform tools
            Power Platform admin center
            Maker Portal
            Power Automate portal
            Power BI Desktop
            Microsoft SQL Server (advanced)
            MySQL (advanced)
        Power Platform mobile
        Prepare Power Platform environments
            Provision of a Microsoft cloud tenant
            Activating a Power Platform developer plan license
    Conclusion
    Questions
2. Building Enterprise Solutions with Power Apps
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objective
    Use cases for Power Apps
        Introducing Project Wizards, Inc.
    Types of Power Apps
        Model-driven apps
        Canvas apps
        Portal apps
        Power Apps for Project Wizards, Inc.
    Microsoft Dataverse fundamentals
        Exercise 1: Creating a data model
            Analysis and preparations
            Practical implementation
    Model-driven apps fundamentals
        Exercise 2: Creating a model-driven app
            Analysis and preparations
            Practical Implementation
    Building enterprise-ready model-driven apps
        Exercise 3: Importing sample data
    Dynamics 365 considerations
        Dynamics 365 Marketing
        Dynamics 365 Sales
        Dynamics 365 Customer Service
        Dynamics 365 Field Service
        Dynamics 365 Project Operations
        Make or buy?
    Conclusion
    Questions
3. Enable Mobility and Integrate Partners with Power Apps
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objective
    Use cases for Power Apps
    Canvas apps fundamentals
    Design of the Project Tracking app
    Connect to data with canvas apps
        Exercise 4—Create app and connect it to data
            Create new table views
            Create a new canvas app
    Build user interface and functionality with canvas apps
        Canvas apps user interface
        Exercise 5—Create and design an app screen
            Configure the application header
            Configure the toggle control
            Configure the gallery
            Configure the buttons
        Fundamentals of Power Fx
        Exercise 6—Configure app functionality
    Enable employee mobility with canvas apps
        Exercise 7—Publish, share, and test the app
    Portal apps fundamentals
    Design of the Project Wizards customer portal
    Configure simple portal apps
        Exercise 8: Create a customer portal
            Create the portal application
            Prepare a model-driven view and model-driven form
            Configure the portals solution I
            Configure the portals solution II
    Integrate your customers with portal apps
    Conclusion
    Questions
4. Automate Processes with Power Automate
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objective
    Use cases for Power Automate
    Types of Power Automate automations
    Cloud flows fundamentals
        Cloud flows action types
        Cloud flows logic
        Cloud flows expressions
    Automated cloud flows
        Exercise 9: Create an approval flow
            Analysis and preparations
            Practical implementation
    Scheduled cloud flows
    Desktop flows fundamentals
    Build hyper-automated solutions
        Example 1—Create a sample vendor invoice processing solution
    Conclusion
    Questions
5. Use Power Automate on Clients
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objectives
    Use cases for Power Automate
    Button cloud flows fundamentals
    Use button flows for personal automation
        Vacation request
        Upload files to SharePoint or OneDrive
        Create an Azure Active Directory user
    Business process flows fundamentals
        Exercise 10: Create a business process flow
            Analysis and preparations
            Practical implementation
    Dataverse automations fundamentals
        Business Rules
        Exercise 11: Create a business rule
            Analysis and preparations
            Practical implementation
        Classic workflows
        Classic custom actions
    Use cloud flows in Power Apps
        Event-based automations
        Scheduled automations
        On-demand automations
        Example 2: Create an on-demand automation
    Use Dataverse automations in Power Apps
        Frontend automations
        On-demand automations
        Backend automations
    Conclusion
    Questions
6. Start with Power BI
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objective
    Use cases for Power BI
    Power BI fundamentals
    The difference between Import and DirectQuery
    Power BI Desktop overview
    Connect to data with Power BI Desktop
        Exercise 12: Connect to Microsoft Dataverse
            Advanced part
    Transform data with Power Query
    Build a data model
        Create relationships between the tables
        Create calculated columns
        Create measures
        Exercise 13: Data modeling
    Conclusion
    Questions
7. Integrate Analytics with Power BI
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objectives
    Power BI visualizations overview
        Bar and column charts
        Line and area charts
        Ribbon charts
        Waterfall charts
        Funnel charts
        Scatter charts
        Pie and donut charts
        Maps, filled maps, and shape maps
        Treemaps
        Other chart types
    Create a Power BI report
        Exercise 14: Building a report
    Publish a Power BI report
        Exercise 15: Publishing a report
    Create Power BI dashboards
        Exercise 16: Creating a dashboard
    Use Natural language query
    Integrate analytics with apps and flows
        Exercise 17: Integrating a dashboard
    Conclusion
    Questions
8. Chat with Power Virtual Agents
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objectives
    Use cases for Power Virtual Agents
    Power Virtual Agents fundamentals
    Create a bot
    Create topics and conversation nodes
    Integrate your bot with other IT systems
        Exercise 18: Creating a chatbot
    Test and publish your bot
    Host your bot on a website and in Microsoft Teams
        Exercise 19: Integrating a chatbot into a Power Apps portal
    Conclusion
    Questions
9. Bring Intelligence with AI Builder
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objectives
    Use cases for AI Builder
        Document processing
        Products recognition
        Automated text analysis
    AI Builder fundamentals
    Overview of the AI Builder models
        Text-processing models
            Sentiment analysis
            Category classification
            Entity extraction
            Key phrase extraction
            Language detection
            Text translation
        Image-processing models
            Invoice processing
            Text recognition
            Receipt processing
            Identity document reader
            Business card reader
            Document processing
            Object detection
            Image classification
        Data-processing models
            Prediction
    Configure and test a custom model
        Example 3: Extract information from vendor invoices
    Integrate your model with model-driven apps
    Integrate your model with canvas apps
    Integrate your model with Power Automate
        Example 4: Test vendor invoice processing
    Conclusion
    Questions
10. Administer the Power Platform
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objectives
    Overview of the Power Platform administration
        Users and groups administration
        Administration of Power Platform environments
        Configuration settings in Power Platform environments
        Power BI administration
    Power Platform environments overview
    The Power Platform Admin Center
        Power BI Admin Portal
    Power Platform environment strategies
        Simple project
        Complex project with multiple teams
        Complex project with multiple releases
    Solution management fundamentals
        Exercise 20: Exporting a Power Platform solution
    Application lifecycle management (ALM) fundamentals
    Automate Power Platform fundamentals
    Conclusion
    Questions
11. Secure and Govern the Power Platform
    Introduction
    Structure
    Objectives
    IT security fundamentals
    Authentication in the Microsoft cloud
        Advanced authentication concepts
            Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
            Integration between on-premises active directory and Azure Active Directory
            Conditional access
    Authorization in Microsoft Dataverse
        The Microsoft Dataverse users
        The ownership of records
        The business units
        The security roles
        Basic authorization model explained
        The Teams
        The Hierarchy Security
        The Column-Level Security
    Authorization in Power Apps
        Model-driven apps authorization
        Canvas apps authorization
        Portal apps authorization
    Authorization in Power Automate
    Authorization in Power BI
    Build secure Power Platform solutions
    Power Platform governance fundamentals
    Data policies
        Exercise 21: Creating a data policy
    The Center of Excellence Starter Kit
        Power BI CoE starter kit report
        Power Platform admin view
        Admin—Command Center
        Other apps
    Conclusion
    Questions
Index

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