With a career that spans across development and architecture, I was keen to include a chapter about architecture in this book. Given that it doesn't fit the cookbook format, I settled for an additional appendix.

In the typical solution architecture documentation fashion, I will highlight the different architectural viewpoints relevant to different stakeholders during a Dynamics 365 implementation. Most of the solution architecture document content is driven from requirements. Given that the appendix is for a generic solution, it will focus on out-of-the-box capabilities that were covered in this book.

In this chapter, I will cover the following views:

• Business view: Describes the different business capabilities of a Dynamics 365 platform
• Logical view: A sample logical representation of Dynamics 365 components
• Deployment view: Focuses on DevOps and deployment capabilities of the Dynamics 365 platform

As an architect, I am also responsible for addressing non-functional requirements (NFRs). Dynamics 365 covers the majority of the NFRs out-of-the-box, with extension options to expand the capabilities, as discussed later in the appendix.

Given Microsoft's recent cloud-first strategy, the rest of this chapter will focus on Dynamics 365 online SaaS offered by Microsoft. As such, the Physical View has been dropped as it would only make sense if the solution has specific Azure-hosted components, which is beyond the scope of this book.