Fabian Williams Business Connectivity Services SharePoint Saturday DC Deck

Fabian williams
Business Connectivity Services
Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com
Twitter: @fabianwilliams
Working with External Content Types consumed by External Lists
via SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010

About the Speaker
Fabian G. Williams MCSD, MCDBA
http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com
Fabian.Williams@CDW.com
Fabian G. Williams is a SharePoint Architect at CDW Advance Technology Services Information Worker Practice. In addition he is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA).Prior to CDW., Mr. Williams was the Chief Technology Officer for WING, Inc. Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developer for the Department of Defense’s Global Emerging Infections System and a Sales Engineer at Citrix Incorporated.
Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

AGENDA
Challenges with Back-End Data
Introducing Business Connectivity Services
Building the Solution
Products and features used
How it was done
Demo: SharePoint 2010 Designer Example (NO-Code)
Demo: Visual Studio 2010 Example (Oh Yeah Code!)
Summary
Q&A

The Woes of Surfacing LOB System Data to End Users
End User Challenges
Multiple user interfaces
External systems can be difficult to use
Can't work with the data when and where I want to
Can’t easily search for business data
Need to involve IT to service my requests for data access
IT Challenges
Islands of business data
Overhead for IT to service all user requests
Manage security, auditing, connectivity
One off projects for connecting to external systems

SharePoint Composites
The New Home for Business Connectivity Services formerly (BDC)
Sites
Rapidly create no-code collaborative solutions
Communities
Composites
Unlock the value of your enterprise data
Content
Insights
Maintain control over end user solutions
Search

Investment Areas
SharePoint User Interface not limited to browser only. Extend from Server External List all the way to Rich Clients
Presentation
End of Read-Only access to LOB Systems now you can CRUD your way through your LOB System Data? Good thing or not?
Connectivity
If you didn’t like SPD before get ready to Love it! Extend your VS 2010 solutions in SPD 2010 in the same DLL / Object Space
Tooling

Grow your SharePoint Lexicon
Business Connectivity Services – Umbrella Term
Business Data Connectivity (BDC) – plumbing, runtime OM, connectivity, formerly the Buss. Data Catalog
External System – back ends, LOB, WS, WCF, DB, etc.
External Content Type (ECT) - previously your Entity in BDC
External List – newest type of SP list

Architecture Diagram
Business Connectivity Services in a Nutshell…
SharePoint
Design Tools
Office Applications
BCS Client
Dev Platform
Enterprise Search
Business Intelligence
Collaboration Social
Enterprise Content Management
SharePoint
Designer
External Lists
External Content Type Repository
Visual Studio
Business Data Connectivity
Web 2.0
DB
WCF
Web Service
LOB

Business Data Connectivity (BDC)
Presentation in SharePoint
Business Data Connectivity (BDC)
BDC Metadata Store
BDC Client Runtime
BDC Server Runtime
Client Data
Cache
DB
Connector
WCF/WS
Connector
.NET Assembly
Connector
Custom
Connector
Client to Backend Direct Connection
External data
Custom .NET assembly
SQL
SAP
ORACLE
Siebel

What is Baked Into the Product – Bag of Tricks so to speak
SharePoint Server 2010
Office 2010
Secure Store Service
External Data Search
Rich Client Extensions
BDC Client Runtime
External Data Web Parts
Profile Pages
SharePoint Foundation 2010
External List
External Data Column
Business Data Connectivity Service

External List in SharePoint – Presentation Layer
Expose external data as a native SharePoint list
Full CRUD capability
Familiar UI and navigation
Sort, Filter, Group
Profile page available for each item in the list
Offline-able

Off-lining External List – Extending in Office 2010
Connect to Outlook as
Contacts
Tasks
Calendars
Posts
Download to SharePoint Workspace as
Lists
Word doc libraries with external data columns

Empower your Users to be more Productive
NO CODE*
CODE
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint SDK
Visual
Studio
Advanced Developer
Developer
Power User

Different Strokes for Different Folks
Custom connectivity for data aggregation, transformation, security, etc.
Use custom code to integrate data into any Office app
Business logic in forms
Create reusable components (UI parts, ECTs, actions)
Customize
InfoPath forms
Workflow
Web Part Pages
Outlook taskpane and ribbon
Out-of-box
Surface data in External Lists
Connect those lists to Outlook, SPW
External Data Columns
Intermediate
Simple
Advanced
NO CODE*
CODE
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint SDK
Visual
Studio
Advanced Developer
Developer
Power User

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