The PnP Provisioning Framework has established itself in recent years as an indispensable tool for standardized deployment of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 workspaces. While many governance providers implement this framework as a retroactive extension or workaround, Teams Center takes a revolutionary different approach: We have designed PnP Provisioning as a central building block of our solution from the beginning and integrated it natively into our architecture.
The story of the PnP Provisioning Framework begins with a fundamental challenge: When Microsoft introduced SharePoint Online, the ability to use Farm Solutions disappeared - that proven method with which SharePoint solutions could be standardly distributed across multiple staging environments in on-premise environments. This gap was painfully felt by many organizations, as Farm Solutions had been the gold standard for deploying SharePoint artifacts for years.
The community quickly recognized this problem and the PnP (Patterns and Practices) Community developed the PnP Provisioning Framework as a response. This infrastructure enables SharePoint artifacts to be deployed via standardized templates - an elegant solution that quickly gained acceptance and is now considered the de facto standard.