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2. OS302 – The Business Data Catalog
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OS302 – The Business Data Catalog
Mark Bower
Senior Consultant
Microsoft UK
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3. Customer Needs Based on SPS 2003 feedback
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Customer Needs Based on SPS 2003 feedback
Less integration code
Deep integration of data into the places users work
New application types that blend data and collaboration
Lack of structured data search
Bridge portal and business application UI
Centrally manage security, auditing, connections 3
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4. Business Data Catalog (BDC) Connects Office servers to business data
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Business Data Catalog (BDC) Connects Office servers to business data
Web Parts
Lists
Search
User Profiles
Custom Apps
List store
Search
Index
Profile Store
Metadata
Business Data Catalog
WS Proxy
ADO.NET
Web Service
Database
BizTalk, SAP, Siebel, Legacy, …
SQL Server, Oracle, OLEDB, ODBC 4
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5. Design Motivations Why do we need the BDC?
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Design Motivations Why do we need the BDC?
No code integration
Centralized deployment
Real-time access
Centralized data security
Designed for portal & collab. scenarios
Data query, indexing, personalization
The BDC is not: Transactions, workflow, data transformation, adapters 5
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6. Business Data Web Parts Simple business apps with no code
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Business Data Web Parts Simple business apps with no code
Scenario
360-degree view of customer
Today
Clipping, custom web parts, data view
Office 12: Reusable biz data web parts
Show new data with no new code or binaries
Master-detail applications with no code
Integrated with dashboards and filters
Customizable in SharePoint Designer 6
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7. Business Data Web Parts
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Business Data Web Parts 7
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8. Business Data Search Search data, not just documents
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Business Data Search Search data, not just documents
Scenario: Find an account manager in Siebel
Today
Vertical applications lack full-text search
Most users can’t locate or access vertical apps
Hard to crawl business data with SharePoint
Office 12: Search any database or web service
No need to write custom IFilters or protocol handlers
No need to create HTML representations of data
Highly customizable results
Integrated with scopes and search center 8
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9. Full-Text Account Search
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Full-Text Account Search 9
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10. Business Data in Lists Collaborate around business data
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Business Data in Lists Collaborate around business data
Scenarios
Tag a proposal with a customer
Track and annotate key support cases
Pick from the canonical list of cost centers
Today
Text or lookup fields
Irregular data, duplicated lists of values
Office 12: Business data column
One column type that stores any entity
One-click refresh
Integrates with list features: workflow, versioning, etc. 10
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11. Tagging Proposals with Accounts
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Tagging Proposals with Accounts
Use Demo 3 Script  11
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12. Actions and Writeback Link, don’t replicate
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Actions and Writeback Link, don’t replicate
Scenario
Edit customer in SAP
Launch InfoPath form for writeback
Today
Great actions for people
Actions on other data means custom code
Office 12: Actions on any entity
Action is just a URL associated with an entity
Actions appear everywhere an entity appears
Users can take action in context 12
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13. Actions on Accounts 9/8/2019 11:03 PM 9/8/2019 11:03 PM 13
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Business Data in User Profiles Business-specific targeting & personalization
Scenarios
Show news about your customers
Automatically filter dashboard by region
Today
Code required to augment user profile with non-Active Directory data
Personalized web parts require custom code
Office 12: Join user profile store and BDC
Map user profile property to field of entity
Filter web parts with user-profile filters 14
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15. Business Data Catalog (BDC) Connects Office servers to business data
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Business Data Catalog (BDC) Connects Office servers to business data
Web Parts
Lists
Search
User Profiles
Custom Apps
List store
Search
Index
Profile Store
Metadata
Business Data Catalog
Ok so I have covered the features, now I just wanted to talk about the API and the metadata model…
WS Proxy
ADO.NET
Web Service
Database
BizTalk, SAP, Siebel, Legacy, …
SQL Server, Oracle, OLEDB, ODBC 15
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16. Development Lifecycle Key shift: From code to metadata
Analyst defines business requirements
IT Pro / developer writes and tests application definition (metadata)
IT Pro uploads application definition
Analyst builds solution using business data features
Key shift – Many integration tasks, no need to write code, you just use the meta data in the BDC
Therefore the development lifecycle is…… <1234>
Important to highlight that on step four it is an analyst not a developer that builds the solution
For some tasks there is code to write but for most a developer may not be needed  16
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17. Metadata Model Two purposes Key objects Describe a system’s API
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Metadata Model
Two purposes
Describe a system’s API
Give meaning to the API; make it easily usable
Key objects
System – A data source (Siebel)
Entity – A real-world thing (Customer)
Method – An operation on an Entity (GetCustomerList)
Association – A relationship between Entities (Customers have Orders)
Skipped this in demo!
Show the simple XML for the customer web service 17
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18. Business Data Catalog API Two halves: runtime and administration
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Business Data Catalog API Two halves: runtime and administration
Runtime API
Browse metadata, execute methods, retrieve instances, traverse relationships
For custom application builders
Administration API
Create, read, update, and delete metadata and manage permissions
For administrators
For ISVs building metadata management tools
OOB features use these public APIs 18
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19. AuthN, AuthZ, And Auditing Centralized security and auditing
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AuthN, AuthZ, And Auditing Centralized security and auditing
Two authentication patterns
Trusted subsystem
Impersonation / delegation
Two authorization patterns
Mid-tier authorization
Backend authorization
One place to audit
Log who accesses which data when
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Calls to Action
Use the business data features to create new and better applications faster
Expose your line-of-business data via web services or databases
Write BDC-friendly web services
Finders, SpecificFinders, IDEnumerators, …
Simplify your custom integration code with the BDC Runtime API
Write tools to simplify metadata creation with the BDC Administration API 20
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