This post follows our current thread on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. Rehmani Consulting Inc offers video training content on BCS through a variety of content that is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com, including: a DVD of the entire BCS set of training content (1.5hrs spread over 11 video training topics) […]
Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010 can be a Catalyst of Change
This is the second in a series of posts on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. A comprehensive set of video training content (approximately 1.5hrs of training spread over 11 topics) on Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com. Each video included in this […]
Successfully Implementing Business Connectivity Services is a Key Contributor to Better User Adoption for SharePoint 2010
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. This set, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services, includes approximately 1.5 hrs of technical training content on 11 different topics. The target audience for this training set are SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and Information Workers. Either […]
BCS Actions Provide a Method of Quickly Obtaining Targeted Results with Data Accessed through External Content Types
In the interests of ensuring that SharePoint Server 2010 may be used as an attractive support for approved collaborative activities that involve communication with external web sites on the Internet, an organization should consider configuring BCS Actions. Creating custom actions for user organizations which will automate otherwise repetitive manual procedures is the type of activity […]
Building Line of Business Dashboards with Business Connectivity Services
As noted on MSDN, a basis for visually presenting Line of Business (LOB) performance is to find “related or complementary information for a specific business entity” and to associate these streams of information into a composite view accessible via a web browser; for example, historical order history by sales territory. In sum, publishing LOB specific […]
External Lists and External Content Types are Essential Components of Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010
In an MSDN article titled “SharePoint Lists vs. External Databases” the point is made that there is little to be gained by replicating external data within SharePoint 2010 document libraries. Rather, the article makes the case that “there are very few circumstances in which there will be benefit in replicating large amounts of data to […]
Using Business Connectivity Services with SharePoint Server 2010 to Produce Web Page Content can Produce Substantial Cost Savings
In 2012 enterprise businesses and other large groups of users in the public, the non profit and the the not-for-profit sectors are emphasizing the importance of collecting meaningful metrics on business activity, performing related analysis, and publishing information on web pages in the form of charts, scorecards, and dashboards. Acquiring and maintaining web browsers constitutes […]
Implementing Business Connectivity Services, BCS, for SharePoint Delivers Lots of Value for the Right Users
Not all SharePoint users will derive value from implementing business connectivity services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. In order to capture the substantial value of collecting remote data within SharePoint 2010, in other words, within a common data repository for an enterprise where truly meaningful data analysis can be performed that promise to generate useful actions, […]
Microsoft® Adds Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to Office 365 SharePoint
On November 30, 2011 Microsoft® announced the addition of Business Connectivity Services to Office 365 SharePoint. Using SharePoint Designer, Office 365 users will now be able to configure BCS to include external databases, document repositories, etc within SharePoint Online. We were particularly gratified to see this announcement. In August of 2011 Asif Rehmani wrote an […]
Implement Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint to Help Hasten User Adoption
Microsoft has counseled that “[f]ailure to sufficiently integrate external systems with SharePoint solutions can slow the adoption of SharePoint within an organization.” (quoted from MSDN Chapter 11, Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010. The key to avoiding this failure is to use Business Connectivity Services (BCS), “a set of technologies that brings data from external systems […]