Understanding Industry Data Models
Industry data models have been developed by different companies for a long time. Microsoft started to offer this approach with the Common Data Model (CDM), which spans all three cloud pillars of Microsoft (Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365). The goal is to easily interconnect data services with each other and follow a predefined structure that is known by all the components involved. If, for example, sales data is read from Dynamics 365, its structure is defined and already available for Data Factory. It can be written to Azure Data Lake Storage or Synapse SQL pools, and from there Power BI already knows the structure and can offer reports and dashboards.
The CDM can be adjusted to your needs. This means you, as the developer, can add attributes to existing entities, create additional entities, or skip the ones you don't need.
To learn more about industry data models, check out Chapter 13, Introducing Industry Data Models.
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