Explore Microsoft Power Platform deployment foundation concepts
The Microsoft Power Platform is a high-productivity application development platform from Microsoft. Not only is the platform used by Microsoft to build their own first party Customer Engagement applications such as Dynamics 365 Sales, Service, Field Service, and Marketing. Organizations around the world are using the Power Platform to build entire solutions that help them meet the ever-changing challenges of today’s world. More organizations are empowering individual users and teams to build personal or team productivity applications that help provide value to their jobs or simplify the way they work.
The Microsoft Power Platform includes a core set of tools that organizations can use to build these solutions. Solutions can include Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, and/or Microsoft Copilot Studio. Using the common infrastructure of Microsoft Dataverse and over 700 pre-built connectors, solutions built on the Power Platform can connect to multiple data sources. When needed, solutions can also include Azure cloud services to scale from individual productivity to enterprise, mission-critical, business line applications.
For an organization adopting Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, the evolution starts with the administrator. There are several considerations for an administrator of the Microsoft Power Platform, but the journey begins by asking how to protect your organization's data.
What data is accessible through these services?
Are there best practices that we should be following?
What is the Power Apps security model, and how should I control access to data?
Once you determine how to proceed with data access, you'll then want to know how you can monitor and manage what users are doing with these services. When you've figured out control and visibility, the next part of your journey takes you to deployment. Individual users and teams can deploy apps on their own, but how do you centrally deploy solutions for your entire organization? And how do you orchestrate updates and identify and fix issues?
Throughout the remainder of this module, we examine several elements related to deploying and administering the Power Platform.