Whitepaper: “Power Platform in a Modern Data Platform Architecture”

In early 2021, I published the essay Power Platform in a Modern Data Platform Architecture. This whitepaper shares its title with that previous essay, expanding on its themes and providing far more detailed guidance on specific patterns that organizations might employ to fully integrate Power Platform with their own modern data platform architecture.

For all the talk about Power Platform as a ‘’low-code’’ tool (and this is the last time I will use the word), for all the attention given to how supposedly easily it allows non-technical users to create simple apps, Power Platform’s greatest value lies not in the app, but in the data the app collects or serves back to its users. Power Platform isn’t an app phenomenon. It’s a data phenomenon.

This whitepaper takes on the question of how Power Platform integrates with Azure data services including Microsoft Fabric, outlining five patterns that organizations ought to mix and match to extract Power Platform’s greatest value. This is not a technical manual, for you’ll find the most up to date of those in Microsoft’s technical documentation. Rather, this paper’s goal is three-fold, to guide:

✔ CIOs and other decision makers maximizing the value of Power Platform development as part of their modern data platform

✔ Enterprise Architects architecting across their organization’s cloud ecosystem, seeking to accelerate development and derive the benefits of composable solutions with Power Platform integrated to the organization’s data estate; and

✔ Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) architecting solutions that require the integration of Power Platform and their modern data platform.

Cheers,

Andrew Welch
Author | CTO | Founder
Cloud Lighthouse