Power Platform licenses demystified - Basic concepts

Power Platform licenses demystified - Basic concepts
What's an App?
- Model-Driven
- Canvas
- Portal (Power Pages are in preview)
Connector types
- Standard: mostly the Microsoft 365 ecosystem - Think of SharePoint and Outlook for example
- Premium: beyond the Microsoft 365 ecosystem - Think of Dataverse for example
- Custom: tailored scenarios - When you create your own connector
- On-Premise: using a data gateway - such as when you want to access that good ol’ back office ERP
Multiplexing
- Use of hardware or software to pool connections, reroute information, or reduce the number of users that directly access or use one of the Power Platform services
- Import / Export to other systems: if a manual step is involved to process, then multiplexing shouldn’t apply
- The number of tiers doesn’t matter
- All users require adequate licenses
Request limits
- A Power Platform Request: various actions translated as API requests
- Power Apps: all requests to connectors and Dataverse
- Power Automate: all requests to connectors, actions (including built-in actions), retries, pagination
- Power Virtual Agents: all calls to Power Automate
- Dataverse: CRUD, assign, and share – for both user-driven and internal system requests
- Exceed: get ready to be throttled down!
Basic concepts Video
Power Platform licenses demystified - What's next?
- Introduction
- Basic concepts
- Power Apps (Seeded, Per app, Pay as you go, Per user)
- Power Automate (Per user, with attended RPA, per flow, unattended add-on)
- Power Virtual Agents
- Power BI
- Portals (Pages) and more add-ons
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