This document discusses connecting SharePoint to line of business (LOB) applications and external data sources. It provides an overview of Microsoft's Business Connectivity Services (BCS) which allows integrating back-end business data into SharePoint without custom coding. BCS enables connecting to various data sources, displaying and interacting with external data in SharePoint lists and libraries, and integrating the data into Office client applications. The document highlights the key capabilities and improvements in BCS.
In this presentation we review the main topics about BI Dashboards with SQL Server 2008 R2.
Regards,
Ing. Eduardo Castro
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://comunidadwindows.org
The webcast focuses on SharePoint’s ability to integrate with third party systems including horizontal solutions, industry solutions and LOB integration. Its product features are described at length depending on the different SharePoint versions. The webcast also enlightens the viewers on what one has to consider before implementing SharePoint in the organization: — the initial strategy, build/ testing, maintenance and support and roll out.
Front-Ending the Web with Microsoft Officegoodfriday
Come learn how to make your Web service instantly recognizable to over 400 million people worldwide. Hear how Microsoft Office has evolved to provide for developers to extend the world's most widely used productivity suite with services from the Web.
In this presentation we review the main topics about BI Dashboards with SQL Server 2008 R2.
Regards,
Ing. Eduardo Castro
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://comunidadwindows.org
The webcast focuses on SharePoint’s ability to integrate with third party systems including horizontal solutions, industry solutions and LOB integration. Its product features are described at length depending on the different SharePoint versions. The webcast also enlightens the viewers on what one has to consider before implementing SharePoint in the organization: — the initial strategy, build/ testing, maintenance and support and roll out.
Front-Ending the Web with Microsoft Officegoodfriday
Come learn how to make your Web service instantly recognizable to over 400 million people worldwide. Hear how Microsoft Office has evolved to provide for developers to extend the world's most widely used productivity suite with services from the Web.
Share point 2010 why should you care to investOptimus BT
An overview of SharePoint 2010, with its new features, and how it stack up with respect to an end user, developer or administrator. We also differentiate SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 in real business terms,along with some Business solutions that can be built using out of the box features.
In May, Microsoft launched its highly anticipated SharePoint 2010. As you would expect, the new version is equipped with an assortment of new features and enhancements.
But what can you really expect? Is it really worth deploying now or should you hold off for a while longer?
View the slide deck, presented in December as part of C/D/H's Technology Briefing Series, and find out more about a real-world SharePoint 2010 success story. Learn why the client chose to move forward with SharePoint 2010, what they experienced during deployment, and the pros of cons of the new version.
Contact C/D/H for more information about this and other SharePoint topics – or check our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com for tips on SharePoint and other technologies.
One of Microsoft’s most powerful collaboration tools has a new version. And although not yet publically released, C/D/H has been working with SharePoint 2010 since August 2009.
C/D/H will show you how features like a new ribbon interface and improved Web 2.0 capabilities can help you accelerate your business. We’ll also give you real-world examples of how clients are leveraging SharePoint in their environment.
Implementation & Customization processes in BI Applications. BI Applications is built on an integrated IT infrastructure. As such it requires a combination of many skills to implement. Customization requires EBS techno-functional knowledge and skills. This is then incorporated in the ETL. Business acumen can help leverage the technology to the maximum.
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This session you learn about SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management offerings.
Enterprise Content Management
Document Management features
Metadata Management
Term Store, Term Sets & Terms
Content Hub
Content Type Syndication
Document IDs
Document Sets
Document Centre
Content organizer
Sent to Location
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Le mardi 28 août à partir de 11:00 à 13:00, la congrégation des Témoins de Jéhovah de Frankfort Est, a été invitée à présenter et afficher des informations sur son organisation pour informer la population étudiante du campus, ainsi que le reste du corps professoral et du personnel de la KSU, sur tout sujet tel que: qui nous sommes et ce que nous faisons.
La participation a dépassé bien plus de 500 étudiants, professeurs et employés, de sorte que les F&S ont bien profité de cette occasion pour communiquer avec les étudiants de la KSU et c’était énorme.
Cet événement a eu lieu sur la Plaza en face de la KSU Student Center.
Share point 2010 why should you care to investOptimus BT
An overview of SharePoint 2010, with its new features, and how it stack up with respect to an end user, developer or administrator. We also differentiate SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 in real business terms,along with some Business solutions that can be built using out of the box features.
In May, Microsoft launched its highly anticipated SharePoint 2010. As you would expect, the new version is equipped with an assortment of new features and enhancements.
But what can you really expect? Is it really worth deploying now or should you hold off for a while longer?
View the slide deck, presented in December as part of C/D/H's Technology Briefing Series, and find out more about a real-world SharePoint 2010 success story. Learn why the client chose to move forward with SharePoint 2010, what they experienced during deployment, and the pros of cons of the new version.
Contact C/D/H for more information about this and other SharePoint topics – or check our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com for tips on SharePoint and other technologies.
One of Microsoft’s most powerful collaboration tools has a new version. And although not yet publically released, C/D/H has been working with SharePoint 2010 since August 2009.
C/D/H will show you how features like a new ribbon interface and improved Web 2.0 capabilities can help you accelerate your business. We’ll also give you real-world examples of how clients are leveraging SharePoint in their environment.
Implementation & Customization processes in BI Applications. BI Applications is built on an integrated IT infrastructure. As such it requires a combination of many skills to implement. Customization requires EBS techno-functional knowledge and skills. This is then incorporated in the ETL. Business acumen can help leverage the technology to the maximum.
Explore SharePoint 2010 Enterprise & Document Management features K.Mohamed Faizal
Topic 2 : Explore SharePoint 2010 Enterprise & Document Management features
This session you learn about SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management offerings.
Enterprise Content Management
Document Management features
Metadata Management
Term Store, Term Sets & Terms
Content Hub
Content Type Syndication
Document IDs
Document Sets
Document Centre
Content organizer
Sent to Location
Congregation des temoins de jehovah de frankfort est (ky) au ksuourbothy
KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY
Le mardi 28 août à partir de 11:00 à 13:00, la congrégation des Témoins de Jéhovah de Frankfort Est, a été invitée à présenter et afficher des informations sur son organisation pour informer la population étudiante du campus, ainsi que le reste du corps professoral et du personnel de la KSU, sur tout sujet tel que: qui nous sommes et ce que nous faisons.
La participation a dépassé bien plus de 500 étudiants, professeurs et employés, de sorte que les F&S ont bien profité de cette occasion pour communiquer avec les étudiants de la KSU et c’était énorme.
Cet événement a eu lieu sur la Plaza en face de la KSU Student Center.
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Session presented at the European SharePoint Conference 2011, about Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010, and how you can use them to integrate SharePoint and Office with Azure.
In this presentation we cover the main features of BI Dashboard with SQL Server 2008 R2.
Regards,
Eduardo Castro Martinez
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
This slidedeck was used during my session at the SharePoint Connections 2012 conference at 20 November in Amsterdam. The presentation is about how to build great applications using the new technologies introduced in SharePoint 2013.
Architecting solutions connecting to lob applications
1. Architecting solutions
connecting to LOB applications
Presented by:
Hosted by:
Vikram Rajkondawar
Architect Advisor
Ashvini Shahane (Head Strategic Service Unit - Synergetics)
Microsoft Corporation
2. Discussion Points
• Need for connecting to External LOB systems
• Business Connectivity Services
• Building Composite solutions with BCS
– OOB No Code solutions
– Intermediate Declarative Solutions
– Advanced Code Based Solutions
5. BDC 2007 - Connect to Business Data
• Connect SharePoint to any business application or
structured database
• SharePoint Provides:
– Business Data in Search
• Crawl back-end systems like ERP, CRM, Custom Databases,
SAP, Siebel, etc
– Business Data Web Parts
• Display back-end data
– Business Data in Lists
• Add business data as list columns and as document metadata
– Business Data in User Profiles
• Add business data as properties in User Profiles
6. BDC 2007 - Connect to Business Data
User Custom
Web Parts Lists Search
Search
Profiles Apps
List Profile
Columns Index Store
Business Data Catalog Metadata
WS Proxy ADO.NET
Web
Database
Service
BizTalk, SAP, Siebel, Legacy, … SQL Server, Oracle, OLEDB, ODBC
7. Business Data Catalog – Summary
Connect to Business Data
Build Business Application with No-Code
Collaborate around Business Data
Search Business Data – Index and Query
Business Data Catalog Business Data Web Parts Business Data Columns Business Data Search
8. Feedback on 2007 BDC
• Read/Write
– Read is nice… Write back would be even more
powerful
• Tooling Support
– Need an easier way to create, debug and maintain
appdef XML files
• I wish it was baked into the Platform
• Wouldn’t it be nice to use offline?
10. A bit of Terminology…
• Business Connectivity Services – All up
• Business Data Connectivity (BDC) – plumbing,
runtime, connectivity
• External System – back ends
• External Content Type (ECT) - a building block,
entity++
• Model – XML file
• External List – newest type of SP list
12. External Content Types
Describes the schema and data access
capabilities of an external data source
and its behavior within Office and
SharePoint
*formerly known as BDC Entity
(Web Service, DB, .Net
object, LOB system, Web 2.0
service, etc.)
BCS-enabled solutions rely on ECTs to
integrate external data into SharePoint
and the Office client applications
13. External Content Type (ECT)
• Superset of entity capabilities; describes:
– Structure of the external system (Fields, Methods, Connection)
– How this data behaves within SharePoint and Office
• Manage and reuse from a central location
• Added to the Business Data Connectivity service through:
– SharePoint Designer
– Visual Studio 2010
– Import into the Business Data Connectivity service as part of a
model
14. External Content Type
External Content
Type
Customer
CustomerID
FirstName
LastName
EmailAddress
External data
16. Presentation
• Expose external data as a
native SharePoint list
– Full CRUD capability
– Familiar UI and navigation
– Sort, Filter, Group
– Programmatic access via SPList
OM
– Profile page available for each
item in the list
– Form
• Auto-generated OOB
• Upsize to InfoPath
– Offline-able
17. Presentation
• Connect to Outlook as
– Contacts
– Tasks
– Calendars
– Posts
18. Presentation
• External Data Columns
– Add data from external content types to standard SharePoint lists
– Can be made available as Content Controls in Word
• Web Parts
Scenario: Use for Dashboard pages
– External Data List
– External Data Item
– External Data Item Builder
– External Data Related List
– External Data Connectivity Filter
– Chart Web Part
• External Data Search
– Integrate External Data into search results
22. Solution Overview
Bring Customer data into SharePoint and Outlook
• External Content Type
• External List
• Outlook integration
Connect Product data from SharePoint to SharePoint Workspace
• External List
• InfoPath Forms
• SharePoint Workspace integration
Create a Sales Quote document in Word
• External Data Column
• Word Content Controls
25. Connectivity
• Business Data Connectivity enhancements
– Read/write capability
– Claims aware
– Connect via ADO/SQL, WCF/WS, .Net Assembly and Custom Connectors
– Batch and bulk operation support
• BDC used for Search indexing connectors
– Added blob, incremental crawl and item level Security
• Symmetrical server and client runtimes
– Connect from client or server directly to external data
• Rich client cache
– SQL CE database is used to cache external data
– Allows for “cached mode” behavior on external data
29. Baked into the Platform…
Secure Store External Data Rich Client BDC Client
Service Search Extensions Runtime
External Data
Profile Pages
Web Parts
External List External Data Column
Business Data Connectivity Service
30. Solution Types, Tools
and Roles
NO CODE* CODE
Power User Developer Advanced Developer
31. Solution Types, Tools
and Roles
• Surface data in External
Lists
• Connect those lists to
Outlook, SPW
• Create reusable
components (UI parts,
ECTs, actions)
Simple Intermediate Advanced
NO CODE* CODE
Power User Developer Advanced Developer
32. Solution Types, Tools
and Roles
• Customize
• InfoPath forms
• Surface data in External • Outlook taskpane and
Lists ribbon
• Word (QuickParts)
• Connect those lists to • Workflow
Outlook, SPW • Web Part Pages
• Create reusable
components (UI parts,
ECTs, actions)
Simple Intermediate Advanced
NO CODE* CODE
SharePoint SharePoint
Designer SDK
Power User Developer Advanced Developer
33. SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
Capability / Tool SharePoint Designer 2010 Visual Studio 2010
Connect to Existing WCF, Sql Server, .Net Any data source by creating .Net Assemblies
Assembly
Modeling Approach Discover and Configure Create and Publish
Target Scenarios Author “simple” models with OOB UX - Author complex models with custom
(External Lists, Outlook, SharePoint connectivity logic for aggregation,
Workspace, InfoPath, Search, simple transformation, security, etc.
FK-based associations) - Author custom UX via VSTO customizations
- Author reusable rich and thin UI parts
(WebParts) that connect to External Data
37. Rich/Thin Solutions
Packaging and Deployment Office Client
Deploy and
Update
SharePoint
Include in WSP Server
Thin Client
Components
WSP
Package Import
38. Why the Business Connectivity Services?
Integrate other systems with SharePoint
sites
• Reporting dashboards
• Line of business applications
Integrate BCS data into hybrid Windows
Forms Applications
Search for data in other systems
via the SharePoint Search service
Save the time, cost, and monotony of
writing yet another data layer!
39. SharePoint Composites
Pervasive external data with Business Connectivity Services
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