[CoE Starter Kit - QUESTION] Roadmap Update

[Grant-Archibald-MS]

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Key point from a next release update. After careful consideration, we have decided to align the next release of the CoE Kit V2 with the public preview of Data Export V2. This alignment will provide a more cohesive and streamlined experience for our users. As a result, our next release will be based on the V1 version based on the last V1 November release.

Given this update we expect that the next release will not be until Feb 2025.

Context

A common question we hear is what is the roadmap of the CoE Kit around Inventory data, especially as our organization scales in power platform usage? It's a great question.

Four years ago, we started the CoE Kit to help bridge the gap in the platform to help customers answer questions like 'Who is using what Power Apps and when?' and many customers use the CoE Kit to help with their governance of their Power Platform resources.

We have been working closely with both the Dataverse Team and the Power Apps Scale team to provide the best scalable and supportable path forward for customers make use of the CoE Starter Kit. Given our wider engineering investments in the new PPAC Admin Experience and the Data Export, we are updating the guidance and as features move from private preview to public preview.

The recent episode of the Low Code Approach covers the new Power Platform Admin Features.

Episode 73: Managed Hub in PPAC (w/ Mik Ferland)

While these new features will not initially cover all if the data available in the CoE Starter Kit, is a step in the direction to give you a range of choices.

Generally, our guidance will be to start with the Admin Center reports. As these features become available, we encourage you to evaluate their fit to for your requirements and provide feedback to Mik on any missing data to help improve the product.

Optionally customers will be able to take advantage of the Microsoft Fabric shortcuts to generate Power BI reports from those data sources.

For scenarios requiring Dataverse aggregated data with the ability to trigger Business Events, the CoE Starter Kit could serve as a reference example.

Looking specifically at the CoE Kit, changes made by the Dataverse Team to enable Microsoft Fabric to allow us as the Power CAT Engineering team to make key investments to add optional integration with the new Data Export enabled data sources.

Overall, this path offers us the ability to switch the data source of the cloud flows to not use the Power Platform Connectors together with Power Automate to populate the custom Tables of the CoE Kit but rather use Microsoft Fabric and Data Pipelines where data exists.

Implications for Existing Customers of the CoE Kit

For existing customers of the CoE Kit, this roadmap signifies several important considerations:

• Alignment with Data Export V2: A future release of the CoE Kit V2 will be aligned with the public preview of Data Export V2. This alignment aims to provide a more cohesive and streamlined experience, ensuring that customers can leverage the latest advancements in data export capabilities.

• Evaluation of PPAC: As more Power Platform Admin center features become available, it is crucial for customers to evaluate its potential benefits and how it can enrich their data. This evaluation will help determine the best approach to integrate PPAC with the CoE Kit and enhance overall data management.

• Data Enrichment Using Data Export: Customers should explore how they can enrich their data using the Data Export feature as this moved to public preview. This involves understanding the new data sources and pipelines available through Microsoft Fabric and how they can be utilized to improve data quality and insights.

• Feedback to Engineering Team: Providing feedback to the Engineering team is essential to ensure that the extensibility evolves to meet customer needs.

  This includes advocating for low code extensions of data from Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, allowing for greater customization and alignment with organizational processes.

• Transition to CoE Kit V2: The transition from CoE Kit V1 to V2 will require careful planning. Customers should be prepared for the migration process, which may involve data migration and reconfiguration of custom tables and flows. The new V2 release will offer enhanced integration with Microsoft Fabric and Data Export, providing a more scalable and supportable solution.

• Scalability and Supportability: The roadmap emphasizes the importance of scalability and supportability. By leveraging the new features in the PPAC Admin Experience and Data Export, customers can achieve better governance and management of their Power Platform resources, ensuring that their solutions can scale with their organization's growth.