Solution Architecture & Design
Designing scalable Microsoft business solutions before a single line is built — so delivery is faster, safer and far less likely to surprise you.
Understand the business before the technology
The most expensive problems in any software project are the ones designed in at the start and discovered at the end. They rarely come from the technology — they come from building the wrong thing, or the right thing on the wrong foundation.
Dove365 begins every engagement by understanding your business: the processes, the people, the data and the outcomes that matter. Only once that picture is clear do we design the solution. It is the least glamorous phase of a project and, by some distance, the one that determines whether it succeeds.
A clear picture of where you are today
Before designing anything new, we map how your organisation actually works right now — the systems, the workarounds and the friction. This assessment becomes the shared reference point for every design decision that follows.
Current State Assessment
A structured review of the systems, tools and processes your business relies on today.
Process Mapping
Clear maps of how work flows through the organisation — including the steps that only live in people's heads.
Data Review
An honest look at where your data lives, how clean it is, and what it will take to bring it together safely.
Stakeholder Workshops
Facilitated sessions with the people who do the work, so the design reflects reality, not assumptions.
Pain Point Analysis
A prioritised view of what hurts most today — so effort goes where it delivers the greatest return.
From understanding to a design you can trust
The output of design is not a demo — it is a set of clear, reviewable documents that describe exactly what will be built, how it will behave, and how it will stay secure and scalable. You approve the design before delivery begins.
Solution Design Documents
A plain-language description of the solution, its behaviour and its boundaries — the single agreed reference for delivery.
Data Models
Well-structured Dataverse tables and relationships that reflect how your business really works, built to stay clean as it grows.
Architecture Diagrams
A clear view of how the parts of the solution fit together across Power Platform and Microsoft 365.
Security Design
Role-based access, data protection and Microsoft Entra ID sign-in designed in from the start, not bolted on later.
Business Process Flows
Guided processes that keep users on the right path and make the system easier to adopt and audit.
Integration Design
A considered approach to connecting with the other systems your business depends on, without brittle workarounds.
Reporting Strategy
What leadership needs to see, where the numbers come from, and how Power BI will surface them reliably.
Migration Planning
A safe, staged plan for bringing existing data across — with the data quality decisions made in the open.
A layered architecture, built to scale and integrate
Every Dove365 solution follows a clear, layered architecture on the Microsoft Power Platform. Each layer has a single job — presentation, data, logic, collaboration and integration — which keeps the system secure, maintainable and ready to extend.
This separation is what allows a solution to start small and grow: you can add users, processes, reporting and AI without disturbing the foundation underneath.
Business Users
Your teams working across desktop, web and mobile.
Power Apps
The interface people use — shaped around each role and task.
Dataverse
The secure, structured data foundation and single source of truth.
Power Automate
The logic layer — approvals, notifications and automated workflow.
SharePoint
Documents and content, governed within Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365
Identity, collaboration and the tools your people already use.
External Systems
Finance, line-of-business and third-party services, integrated cleanly.
A plan you can commit to
Good architecture is only useful if it can be delivered predictably. Alongside the design, we produce the planning artefacts that turn a solution into a project with clear scope, sequencing and accountability.
You start delivery knowing what will be built, in what order, by when, and what could get in the way.
Design is where risk is removed
Investing in architecture and design up front is not an overhead — it is the point at which the most expensive risks on a project are quietly taken off the table.
Solution architecture, explained
Let's design it properly
before we build it
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will talk through your business, your goals and the shape of a solution — and how the right design now saves time, cost and rework later.