Often an audience will respond with references to a sort of Facebook on an Intranet when asked for a snap reaction to the concept of online collaboration. For audiences that use SharePoint 2010, the concept of online collaboration should also invoke even richer images of pooled corporate data, freely liberated from business silos through the […]
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 […]