Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Summary and Conclusion

Business Connectivity Services provides a unique way of making information available for widespread consumption. A successful implementation is all about the data. However, assuming that the proper data repositories are available, the tool provides a means of quickly and easily presenting the data for consumers to access the information.

For years, powerful tools have made it possible to generate reports based on large volumes of data. Nevertheless, the traditional problems have been related to making the reports available to the right people and having the reports available at the time that they were most useful.

Like PerformancePoint Services in the previous chapter, Business Connectivity Services solves these problems ...