Many organizations supporting an on premises SharePoint implementation are looking for an interim step prior to proceeding on a full scale migration to SharePoint Online, Office 365. A hybrid architecture provides just this type of option. In an online class coming soon, exclusively on SharePoint-Videos.com, Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP will present the components of […]
SharePoint-Videos Publishes a Set of Video Tutorials on External Data, BCS and Workflows for SharePoint 2013
Organizations in need of proven methods to surface external data in SharePoint 2013, and to work with it via no-code process development approaches, should consider a new set of video tutorials on BCS, External Data, and Workflows, led by Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP. The set has just been published by SharePoint-Videos. A review of […]
Microsoft Partners Working On a Collaboration and Content Competency May Want to Study Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
In a post to the U.S. Partner Team Blog on Technet, titled ‘Build your SharePoint business with the Collaboration and Content competency’, Diane Golshan of Microsoft writes: ‘implementing business-critical solutions with line-of-business (LOB) data coming from disparate systems surfaced in SharePoint’ is an example of one of the ‘tremendous opportunities’ in front of U.S. partners […]
Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2013
Any organization looking to implement SharePoint 2013 as an enterprise application for document or content management, or for reporting purposes, or even for gathering useful business intelligence, will need to use solutions and features built on the Business Data Collector (BDC) and Business Connectivity Services (BCS). Despite two new SharePoint Server versions, 2010 and, now, […]
Central Administration Settings for Creating and Configuring Reporting Services as a SharePoint Server 2013 Service
The task of adding the SQL Server 2012 SP1 Reporting Services for SharePoint service is best performed by SharePoint administrators. Jason Himmelstein’s presentation in the first part of his series on Reporting Services, REPORTING SERVICES IN SHAREPOINT 2013 PART 1 is tailored for an audience of administrators. As we noted in the previous post to […]
Understanding the Value of Business Connectivity Services – BCS
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 should be a feature of substantial interest for enterprises composed of several Line of Business (LoB) units. It’s worth spending time thinking about how to implement BCS if an enterprise objective is to regularly collect and analyze LoB performance data. BCS has all of the features […]
Documentation on Planning the Secure Store Service for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 are Consistent
The Secure Store Service plays an important role in SharePoint 2010 and, possibly, an even more important role in SharePoint 2013. Enterprise businesses working with either version of SharePoint can rely on a consistent set of documentation for this important feature. Planning documents on the Secure Store Service for SharePoint 2010, and its counterpart for […]
Implement The Open Data Protocol to Encourage Collaboration Over SharePoint between Lines of Business Groups
Rehmani Consulting Inc sells products that help enterprise users hasten adoption for Microsoft® SharePoint®. Our products include VisualSP™, which is a help system that can be used to deliver custom technical training content directly to SharePoint 2010 users, within the SharePoint 2010 working environment. We also sell video training content optimized to provide SharePoint users […]
Exposing OData Sources in SharePoint 2013 has become an Easier Task
In a video presentation and article published on the MSDN Library web site in July, 2012, titled Using OData sources with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2013, Scot Hillier, Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional contends that “The new OData connector enables SharePoint [2013] to communicate with OData providers.” Further, he notes that “[i]n SharePoint 2013, […]
Enhanced Methods are Available with SharePoint 2013 and BCS to Expose OData Sources
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a set of video training content on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. We see BCS as a suite of important features that enable Microsoft Office applications (including SharePoint) to support enterprise users who need to work with external data sources (and external content types, or “ECTs”) within their Microsoft […]