Bdc Screens

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is a framework in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition that allows integration of line-of-business systems and databases without custom coding. It uses metadata to define entities, methods, and associations for connecting to and retrieving read-only data from external systems via web services or ADO.NET. Administrators import BDC metadata to create applications that provide data to SharePoint sites using out-of-the-box web parts, columns, search, and profiles synchronization. Programmers can also access BDC entities through the object model.