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Business Connectivity Services

So far, all of the data used by our apps has resided in SharePoint. There are situations where this is not practical or desirable. For example, when our data exists in a line-of-business application such as a CRM or enterprise data warehouse, moving or replicating this data in SharePoint would be cumbersome and unreliable. Also, given the fact that our apps may be deployed in many different sites or farms, it may be difficult to access a central copy of the data in SharePoint. This situation calls for a means of accessing data stored outside of SharePoint in a way that allows our apps to provide a rich ...

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