Chapter 17. Planning Business Solutions

In Chapter 5, “Planning for Operational Governance,” we discussed the importance of governing the customizations made to your SharePoint environment that support business solutions built with SharePoint. In this chapter, we discuss three key concepts that enable you to create and manage those business solutions by customizing SharePoint, along with the changes to these functions that have been introduced in SharePoint 2013:

Image Composite Applications, which are a way to assemble business-critical solutions via premade components

Business Connectivity Services, which enable you to connect SharePoint to external ...

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