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Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Business Connectivity Services
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Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Business Connectivity Services

by Brett Lonsdale Penelope Coventry and Phill Duffy
June 2012
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
420 pages
11h 46m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Business Connectivity Services

Chapter 1. Making SharePoint the Central Hub for Business

In this chapter, you will:

  • Review how organizations have changed their approach to business data over the last 20 years

  • Understand why organizations have islands of data throughout their business processes

  • Learn how a familiar application such as SharePoint can help resolve the problem of distributed data

  • Learn how Business Connectivity Services can provide a uniform method of accessing data for all stakeholders in an organization

Before you learn how to use Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to make external data available to SharePoint, it is important to understand how and why the technology is so useful.

In this chapter, you will review a real-world company and how it changed in the early ...

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