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SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog
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SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog

by Brett Lonsdale, Nick Swan
September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 14m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix A. Connecting to SAP with the BDC

Probably the best way to understand a system that’s in place is to work backward from the end to the beginning. Understanding what’s in place and the purpose of each layer will help you in the forward planning of the system that you want to implement. We’ll use two examples to convey both the use of the data and the technical implementation. The two entities we’ll use are suppliers and customers. In this example, SAP data is available via SharePoint Search and also, in the case of the supplier data, ends up populating a SharePoint custom list. Note that there’s an overlap between the supplier and customer data.

In the following paragraphs, we’ll look at the data in SAP, look at it in SharePoint, and review ...

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