OData Support is an Improved Feature for SharePoint 2013 for Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

With the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) component behind Office, and SharePoint 2013, better support is available for services running the Open Data (OData) web Protocol. This new BCS component complements the Office, and SharePoint 2013 App Model, both of which, in turn, are very deeply based on web development tools — HTML and JavaScript. […]

Use the Open Data Protocol to Include Data from Business Silos in SharePoint Online

The OData Protocol is defined as ” . . . a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like REST. The result is a uniform way to expose full-featured data APIs.” This definition may be useful for software developers. Steve Fox, a Director […]