What is Microsoft Dataverse?

Dataverse can be summarized as a Database in the cloud.

But is much more ...

It lets you securely store and manage data used by Business Applications.

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With Dataverse you get out-of-the-box:

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Security

Granular configurable permissions

Audit Trails

Data access and manipulation logs

Backups

Backup and recovery options

Solutions Management

Customizations can be moved

Search

Configurable indexing and search

Extensibility

Extra functions with code & low-code

API

HTTP Rest to access data & functions

Data within Dataverse is stored within a set of Tables.

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Dataverse includes a base set of standard tables that cover typical scenarios, but you can also create custom tables specific to your organization.

App makers can then use Power Apps to build rich applications using this data.

Or you can create your own front-end to manipulate the data.

A Table is a set of Rows and Columns.

What is the difference between Common Data Service, Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform and Dynamics?

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Common Data Service and Microsoft Dataverse are the same thing.

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Microsoft recently renamed the Common Data Service to Microsoft Dataverse. Also renamed other parts of the application.

For example, Entity is now Table and Attribute is now Column.

Power Platform is a family of products based on the low-code philosophy.

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Power Apps is one of the products in the family specifically designed for building User Interfaces.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a family of Business Applications built on top of Power Platform and Dataverse.

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Low-code means that little to no code is required to build an application.

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A Citizen Developer is a person with no coding skills that is able to use the functionality provided by the Power Platform to build secure and reliable enterprise applications.

Think for example of those people in your organization that use their Excel skills to build all sort of spreadsheet trackers, or workbooks full of formulas to calculate budgets.

Now these people are Citizen Developers in the Power Platform.

How can Power Platform help my organization?

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Power Platform makes it easier to quickly build Business Applications. And quicker means less time, less resources and cheaper.

This approach where anyone within the company with Microsoft Office skills could model an application that automates parts of your business processes in a managed, secure and reliable way is a game-changer.

Now the old budget spreadsheets can be turned into great apps in a controlled and safe way.

Go on.

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