Note: Many companies have already understood that SharePoint can be used like an Integration Portal, where they can extend their internal systems (ERP, CRM, etc.) with custom and OOTB solutions. Now there is an easy workaround for these restrictions due to the new tools SPD2010 and VS2010.īy the re-utilisation of a concept in grouping metadata called Content Types, BCS creates a metadata mapping called External Content Type, due to the creation of an external metadata mapping, which I will talk about later. Despite the fact it was relatively simple to create applications read-only, applications that persisted data were difficult to be done.
The previous version of BCS called Business Data Catalog in MOSS 2007 also allowed us to connect to external data sources, however the creation of this kind of solutions was difficult due to the lack of design tools. Have you ever thought about or had the necessity of integrating different data sources in a unified system? It is important to know that this is possible in SharePoint 2010, thanks to the Business Connectivity Services (BCS).īy default the SharePoint 2010 platform contains Out-of-the-box (OOTB) features of BCS for displaying, manipulating and data searching, and with the utilization of SharePoint Designer 2010 and/or Visual Studio 2010 tools is possible to create advanced BCS solutions for integrating data sources and services. Understanding what the BCS is, its architecture and components is the main purpose of this approach. This a complete content focused on development, which BTW is the purpose of this blog.
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This is the beginning of a series of posts related to this subject, and this is the first one. In these last months I have been working on the new SharePoint 2010 BCS for the integration of different data sources, and I have decided to talk about the concepts involved and my experiences based on examples of different lessons.
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