Chapter 18. Aggregating External Data Sources

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 introduced a number of new services and features that allowed business data to surface from back-end applications. With Microsoft SharePoint 2010, these features have been enhanced. Some of these features provide pre-built Web Parts, which display information from these external data sources on dashboards without the need for coding. Other features aggregate and transform data held in SharePoint before displaying the information to the user, and some are designed for connecting, ...

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