2. Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010
Name
Title
Company

3. Agenda
BCS Overview
Investments
Presentation
Connectivity
Tooling

4. Business Connectivity Services
Office Applications
BCS Client
Design Tools
SharePoint
Dev Platform
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Content Management
Collaboration Social
Enterprise Search
SharePointDesigner
External Lists
Visual Studio
External Content Type Repository
Business Data Connectivity
LOB
Web Service
WCF DB
Web 2.0

5. Investment Areas Presentation Connectivity Tooling
Extend Office and SharePoint‘s UX and capabilities to external data and processes
Presentation
Read-write capable connectivity from client and server to databases, WCF/WebServices and .NET sources
Connectivity
Integrated tooling experience scales from simple solutions to advanced pro-dev apps with rich client packaging and deployment
Tooling

6. Data & Connectivity SharePoint Client BCS in Office Client
Client to Backend Direct Connection
BDC
Client Data
Cache
SharePoint Client
BCS in SharePoint
Identity Federation
service
BCS Meta
Data Store
BDC DB
Connector
WCF /WS
Connector
.NET Assembly
Connector
AS Custom
Connector
Persistence Store
SAP
ORACLE
Siebel
SQL
Data Cubes
Custom .NET assembly
External data

7. External Content Types The building block
Describes the schema and data access capabilities of an external data source and its behavior within Office and SharePoint
*formerly known as BDC Entity
Office Clients (Rich)
BCS
External Data Source
(Web Service, DB, .Net object, LOB system, Web 2.0 service, etc.)
External Content Type (ECT)
BCS
BCS-enabled solutions rely on ECTs to integrate external data into SharePoint and the Office client applications
SharePoint (Thin)

8. BCS Server Features by SKU
Foundation
SharePoint Standard
SharePoint Enterprise
External Data Column
External Lists
Connectors (ADO, WCF, .net)
CA BDC Admin Pages
BDC Muti-Tenant
BDC Admin OM
Runtime OM
Secure Store
BDC Web Parts
Profile Pages
Packaging
Rich Client Extensions
InfoPath Forms

9. External Data is Surfaced In…
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Server
External lists
Web parts
Business Data
XSLTListView, XSLTListForm, Chart Web Part, InfoPath
External Data Column
Workflow
Search
External Content Type (ECT) Picker
ECT Instance Picker
Client
SharePoint Workspace
Outlook
Can be extended to include Taskpane
Word
External Data Picker

10. External Lists Looks and feels like a SharePoint List
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Looks and feels like a SharePoint List
Sandbox Solutions
Silverlight
Custom client applications
InfoPath, Access
External content types as their data sources
Business Entity Metadata
Write back to business system
Doesn’t live in SharePoint DB

11. External Lists: Limits
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
New columns
Workflow
Content types
Versioning
Check-in/check-out.
Rating
Managed Metadata

12. External Data Columns Business Data list column type Read-only
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Business Data list column type
External Data
Read-only
Scenarios:
Tagging a document in a list
Extend or annotate without change
Pick values from a list

13. External Content Type Picker
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Create a column
Picking and resolving
Rich client support

14. External Content Type Instance Picker
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Choose an Item
Rich client support
Example, Choose a customer

15. External Data Web Parts
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
No required coding
Connections
Customization
SPD and XSLT
Read-Only

16. SharePoint Workspace The next generation of the product formerly known as Groove
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Offline capable
InfoPath forms UI (customizable)
Respects SharePoint view settings (filter/sort/group)
Error/conflict resolution
Search across business data

17. Building Outlook Solutions
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Offline Capable
Define ECTs to have behaviors
Error/conflict resolution

18. Error & Conflict Resolution
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity

19. Connectivity Business data connectivity enhancements
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Business data connectivity enhancements
Read/write capability
Batch and bulk operation support
Claims aware
Connect via ADO/SQL, WCF/WS, .Net Assembly connectors
Symmetrical server and client runtimes
Connect from client or server directly to external data
Rich client cache
Allows for “cached mode” behavior on external data

20. Business Data Connectivity Service Application
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Setup
Farm Configuration Wizard
Manage Service Applications
PowerShell
Can be shared across farms
Delegated Administration

21. What can be administered in the Business Data Connectivity service?
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
External content types
External data sources
Permissions
Associations
External data source instances
Authentication
Application models and resource files

22. Rights – Suggested Settings
Presentation
Tooling
Connectivity
Right
Administrator
Designer
End User
Edit
Execute
Set Permissions
Selectable In Clients

23. Tooling Simple solutions in SPD
Presentation
Connectivity
Tooling
Simple solutions in SPD
External Content Type definitions
Workflow integration
Advanced Pro-Dev Solutions in Visual Studio
Code-based business logic
Custom connectivity

24. Business Connectivity Services
Demo

25. Summary
BCS Overview
Investments
Presentation
Connectivity
Tooling

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