Architecture and contracts
Map systems, data movement, identity boundaries, API contracts and availability requirements.
THE SECURE CONNECTIONS BEHIND THE EXPERIENCE
Connect the systems. Preserve the boundaries.
Engineer the APIs, event handling and cloud services that connect Microsoft 365 and Power Platform to enterprise systems.
THE WORK TO BE DONE
Design around the business need.
Integration is where user expectations meet real identity, data and operational constraints. We design reliable contracts and make their behavior observable.
API and event integration
Implement synchronous APIs, event-driven processing and integration adapters around agreed platform capabilities.
Identity and deployment
Use appropriate delegated or application identities, managed identity where suitable, protected configuration and infrastructure as code.
Operational assurance
Provide correlation, diagnostics, retry handling, monitoring and recovery procedures that operators can use.
A REVIEWABLE ENGAGEMENT
What the work produces.
Scope and acceptance are agreed at the start of the engagement.
Typical deliverables
- Integration architecture and interface contracts
- Azure services and infrastructure definitions
- Identity and configuration design
- Observability, deployment and recovery guidance
Controls to design and verify
- Least-privilege access and approved consent
- Managed identity or protected credentials where appropriate
- Validated inputs and bounded operations
- Secure deployment and diagnostic data handling
IN OPERATION
A practical employee or operator journey.
A document event triggers a bounded integration operation. The service validates the event, checks for duplicates, invokes the approved workflow and records the correlation for support.
Measures to agree
- Interface reliability and recovery time
- Visibility of cross-system failures
- Deployment consistency
- Manual intervention per transaction
Technology choices
Azure Functions · Logic Apps · Storage · Key Vault · Entra ID · Microsoft Graph · REST APIs
The selected components depend on your tenant, licensing, operating requirements and existing platform investments.
QUESTIONS BEFORE WE BUILD
Make the boundaries explicit.
Can we work with the systems we already have?
Yes. Discovery begins with your existing platforms, content and processes. We identify what can be retained, what needs to change and which integration boundaries require agreement.
What does the first release include?
A bounded business scenario, agreed users and sources, acceptance tests and a support owner. The scope is defined from evidence rather than a fixed set of generic features.
How do you establish production readiness?
By verifying the intended behavior, permissions, failure paths and operating model against agreed acceptance. A successful interface demonstration is one input to that decision.
LET’S BUILD THE NEXT CAPABILITY
Let’s define the next useful release.
Start with a business outcome. We will help define the architecture, the first release and the evidence needed to move forward.