Batman Gotham City Strategy Game

As stated in the book this is not for beginners, you should have a some exposure to MS Power Platform tech.This book is an excellent reference if you need an overview of MS PP, its architecture and how to implement it.As someone who works primarily in Power BI desktop it is interesting to learn more about the "back-end". As I progress more in my data analytics career this book will be an invaluable resource to keep on hand to reference any questions pertaining to this subject.I would highly recommend this book to my colleagues at work!

I've been using the Power Platform for a number of years now. I found this to be a good overview of Power Platform Architecture. It won't go in depth into much, but it gives you ideas of where to explore more. I recommend this for a good overview.

As a Data consultant focused on Power BI and Data Analytics, I found this book highly valuable. It helped me to get the "big picture" overview of the whole ecosystem that I am working in.Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide for architects and decision makers who want to leverage the power of Microsoft cloud technologies to design complex and scalable solutions.The book covers the essential concepts and best practices of Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Azure, and Dynamics 365. The book also provides practical examples and case studies to illustrate how to integrate these components and overcome common challenges in security, extensibility, integration, and data migration.The book is written by Robert Rybaric, a Microsoft MVP and an experienced enterprise architect who has worked with Power Platform since its inception. The book is updated with the latest features and enhancements of Power Platform and reflects the current industry trends and standards. The book is suitable for anyone who wants to learn how to architect, design, and manage complex Power Platform solutions that meet business needs and stay competitive in the modern IT world.

Covering nearly everything the Power Platform is capable of, this book has a great overview of features and capabilities from BI, to Automate, and more. Having worked with the Power Platform for years I have found value in the extensively detailed administrative techniques for the Power Platform in connection to other tools, such as Azure. I found Chapter 10 with Migration information to be of interest, and speaks directly to the risks and best practices for migrating information into the Platform.This is a great resource for anyone looking to understand how to maintain the Platform in depth.

This book is suitable for Solution architecture and Decision makers on how to implement a new project and understand more of the Microsoft Power Platform Architecture. It provides a solid understanding of how Microsoft 365 and Power Platform work together and offers detailed information on the architecture. The book started by layering the topic's foundation and gradually deep diving into each section. While it has a theoretical approach, it also provides real-world scenarios to bring the theories to life and demonstrate how architecture operates in practice.

Would recommend to anyone interested in learning more about the architecture of the Power Platform. Covers all corners of the wide product family and would serve as a great introduction to the Power Platform for architects interested in moving into this space. Author stays fairly objective and presents the information in a very digestible way.

Robert Rybaric does an outstanding job laying out the foundation of the Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture for the expert user or the exploratory team of a firm looking to develop a fully functional CRM and ERD features in an all comprehensive system. The materials in this book is digestible for the developer, IT manager, CIO, CFO, HR manager, systems admin or the non-technical reader who has a basic understanding of multi layered data and application integrations from a surface level. As a report data developer already familiar with Microsoft Power BI, I was pleased to find out that Canvass, Power Pages and Power Apps can be easily integrated within tiles of the BI dashboard or Tiles in Canvass. Having Power BI dashboards viewable through Power Pages is also a desired feature for me. As a database administrator, I was also pleased to see that Dataverse can interface with an ETL tool like SSIS with a data flows and cleaned up in a staging database before being sent to useable tables. If you are an experienced or beginning developer, Models, the Power Apps Studio, APIs and Canvass can be easily configured as an all comprehensive tool to interface with internal or external users. There are so many features in this book including workflow automation and AI which are also becoming more popular among organizations. This book is a very rich resource that every organization who has an Microsoft 365 license should read. The author makes everything practical by giving the reader an example corporation, Contoso Inc and their respective requirements in respect to the Power Platform's features. This book makes me want to further explore how my organization can put these features to use. I recommend that you purchase this book.

You play as a villain in Gotham City, trying your hardest to gain control of the city whilst suffering at the hands of Batman and any other villains who are playing. The villains themselves are the Heroclix models, which look fantastic, although Killer Croc has a hard time staying on his base. Your goal is to reach level 10, and you level up by controlling areas, paying money or information (the two types of currency in the game) or having a large stable of henchmen. You can control a territory on the map by having "threat", yet another recourse, in the territory or by placing your villain figure.To gain information, money and henchmen you play criminal plot cards, many of which involve you controlling set territories on the map to gain extra resources. This leads to interesting power shifts between different areas of the map, depending on which cards you draw. However, towards the end of the game, when you will want either a lot of money or a lot of information, you'll find your cards becoming less useful as they won't give you what you want. This is where the strategy element falls down, as you can trade cards for 2 of one recourse instead of playing one on that turn and the end of the game tends to descend in to everybody doing this.All said though, it's a solid game, and it's more than tempting to try and talk like Christian Bale's Batman everytime a Batman card is played. Hopefully there will be an expansion will to give the game more badies to play as, maybe a new good guy too, but mostly so there are cards you can save to the end to keep the strategy element going.

We had a blast playing this game... The only negative thing is Crock... There are much better villains than crock (freeze, riddle, bane, the bat dude) I am guessing they are saving them for an expansion :)

This is a brilliant game for four people that doesn't take all night. It's quick to learn and fun to play.