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Published inSep 2023
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Matthew Weston
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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín
Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
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What is Dataverse?

Dataverse is a data storage solution available in the Power Platform. It allows us to store data in the structure of a relational database. Data is stored in tables that contain columns and rows.

Dataverse enables users to share data across several different applications within Microsoft 365, including all Power Platform apps or Dynamics 365. One of the main differences that Dataverse presents compared to other databases is that to use it, we do not need to provide specific connection information, as the database is automatically connected to the environment where the app is developed:

Figure 18.1: Power Platform schema of apps and services

Dataverse consists of tables that can be related to each other, as with other databases, but with the advantage of being able to build them through a web portal rather than having to rely on other applications.

We should consider that, to start using Dataverse, we need to have access to the full capabilities...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801070645

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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
Read more about Elisa Bárcena Martín