OData: There’s a Feed for That Pablo Castro Software Architect Microsoft Corporation

Goals What is it? Why do you care? How do you use it? How to build one? – Today at 3:00 PM

what were we thinking?

data in modern web applications

odata in 1 slide…

OData Uniform way of representing structured data – Atom, JSON formats Uniform URL conventions – Navigation, filtering, sorting, paging, etc. Uniform operations – Addressability – GET, POST, PUT, DELETE always mean the same

great experiences over an open protocol

data sharing in business applications (or how we learned to say “Information Worker”)

SharePoint 2010 & OData SharePoint needed 2 things in this space Flexible data interface – Maximize reach, minimum barrier of entry – Data centric, but enforcing business logic Developer story – Libraries for as many clients as possible – Great Visual Studio integration

Every SharePoint 2010 site is an OData server

Insight from Data “Self-service business intelligence” – Let people find and use their own data – …but where’s the data? Broad direct database access is impractical – OData feeds expose data over application logic – PowerPivot can handle OData natively Reports often represent the best data sources – All reports in Reporting Services are now OData feeds

data sharing at large

Government data, e.g. OGDI Scientific data, e.g. OSDI Social data, e.g. NerdDinner Commercial public data, e.g. Netflix, Mix Premium data, Microsoft Codename “Dallas”

consistent, up to date

scale to large datasets hosting on the cloud, partitioning

maximize reach, focus investments share libraries, browsers, applications

monetize valuable data “dallas”

advertise data availability

Servers WCF Data Services SharePoint 2010 SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 SQL Azure IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale Microsoft Media Room WCF RIA Services Services Netflix Mix 2010 Nerd Dinner Vancouver’s vanGuide Open Government Data Initiative Open Science Data Initiative Microsoft Codename “Dallas” City of Edmonton Clients Excel + PowerPivot LINQPad OData Explorer Client libraries.NET Silverlight Windows Phone 7 Series Javascript Java Objective-C PHP

Call to Action Share your data with OData Teach data consumers about OData To get started, go to

Resources All things OData: Blog: MSDN: Follow up questions in “MSDN Radio” – Monday 3/22, 10 AM PST –