Overview of Common Data Service in Power Platform



If you are already using Power Platform, then you might have heard of CDS or Common Data Service. In this video article we are going to look at what is CDS in detail.

What is CDS (Common Data Service)?

  • Its a cloud storage platform, you can store and manage data securely
  • Store data as set of entities – Entity is similar to SQL table where you can store set of records
  • Common data service database provides standardized entities to be used – this is called common data model
  • This is native backend data source for Dynamics 365
  • This can be used as alternative to your existing data storage applications
  • Model Drive Apps can be created with only supported backend data source as CDS

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Sarvesh Shinde
Sarvesh Shinde
Sarvesh is a Microsoft 365 consultant. Working on Power Platform extensively, having 12 years of experience in software development. Working on Office 365 suite products like PowerApps, PowerBI, FLOW, SharePoint Online, Teams, Yammer etc. Reach out to me if you have any question in this area.
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