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. The impact of better support for OData in SharePoint 2013 as the result of a new, and improved BCS feature is substantial. Organizations with a major commitment to Oracle®, SAP, or IBM® databases have a much better chance of successfully pulling this external data into…
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