Intro to Microsoft Power Platform Flashcards
What four products is Microsoft Power Platform comprised of?
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Power Virtual Agents
What is Power Apps?
- A rapid low-code development environment for building custom apps for business needs.
- Works across web and mobile, embedded or standalone, on any device
What is Power Automate?
Lets you automate processes
What is Power BI?
The Analysis and Insight component of Power Platform
What is Power Virtual Agent?
It allows you to create powerful chatbots using a guided no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers.
What are the cross-platform features that allow Power Platform to be leveraged to its full potential?
- AI Builders
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Connectors
What does AI Builder do?
AI Builder enables users and developers to integrate AI capabilities to workflows and Power Apps that they create and use.
What is Microsoft Dataverse?
- A scalable data service and application platform that enables you to securely store and manage data from numerous sources.
- You can integrate your data into business applications using a common data model to ensure ease and consistency to users.
- Microsoft Dataverse is the common currency that enables the components of Microsoft Power Platform to work together.
- It’s the foundation that enables the consolidation, display, and manipulation of data
What is a Connector?
- A bridge from your data source to your app, workflow or dashboard.
- Provides input and output between a data source and Microsoft Power Platform
What do Connectors do?
- Bring data and additional functionality to your solutions
- integrate disparate parts of your business solutions
- Enable you to connect apps, data, and devices in the cloud.
- Examples of popular connectors include Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google Services, and more
What two types of data sources do Connectors connect to?
- Tabular Data
- Function Based Data
What are characteristics of a Tabular Data Source
- Returns data in a structured table format power apps can directly read and displays these tables through galleries, forms and other controls.
- If the data source supports it, Power apps can create edit and delete data from these table sources.
- Examples include Microsoft Dataverse, SharePoint and SQL Server
What are characteristics of a Function Based Data Source
- Uses functions to interact with the data source.
- These functions can be used to return a table of data but offer more extensive actions such as the ability to send an email, update permissions or create a calendar event.
- Examples include Office 365 users, Project online and Azure blob storage.
Roughly how many connectors exist?
275
What if you need a connection that doesn’t exist?
You can create a custom connection.