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Managing across the enterprise with the Dataverse

Managing across the enterprise with the Dataverse

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Managing across the enterprise with the Dataverse

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- [Phil] Excel, Access, and SharePoint all deal with data at increasing levels of detail and power. Now it's time to pull out all the stops and talk about Microsoft Dataverse, which I'm going to get to through Power apps. Now, you might have already heard of Common Data Services, which was Dataverse's previous name. This was less punchy from a marketing standpoint, but a lot more descriptive. However, in a nutshell, the Dataverse lets you manage and share data across multiple environments in a large enterprise organization. The Dataverse can work with all different types of data, giving it tremendous flexibility, and data is defined in what Dataverse calls tables, but Dataverse tables are at a whole different level of detail. For instance, let's look at this, account. Seems harmless, right? But if we look at the detail, a thing called an account can have all these other attributes attached to it, and these attributes…

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