1. Fabian williams SharePoint 2010 Magic Tricks – Surfacing your Enterprise Data and More consumed by External Lists in SharePoint UX and Office Suite of Application … from the wading pool all the way into the deep end…. Blog: http://www.sharepointfabian.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

2. About the Speakers Fabian G. Williams MCSD, MCDBA http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com @fabianwilliams Fabian G. Williams is a SharePoint Architect at CDW Advance Technology Services Information Worker Practice. In addition he is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA). Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

4. Introducing Business Connectivity Services

5. Building the Solution

6. Products and features used

7. How it was done

8. Demo: No-Code Solution – SPD 2010

9. Summary

10. Q&ABlog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

11. Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams The Woes of Surfacing LOB System Data to End Users End User Challenges Multiple user interfaces External systems can be difficult to use Can't work with the data when and where I want to Can’t easily search for business data Need to involve IT to service my requests for data access IT Challenges Islands of business data Overhead for IT to service all user requests Manage security, auditing, connectivity One off projects for connecting to external systems

12. SharePoint Composites The New Home for Business Connectivity Services formerly (BDC) Sites Rapidly create no-code collaborative solutions Communities Composites Unlock the value of your enterprise data Content Insights Maintain control over end user solutions Search Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

13. Investment Areas SharePoint User Interface not limited to browser only. Extend from Server External List all the way to Rich Clients Presentation End of Read-Only access to LOB Systems now you can CRUD your way through your LOB System Data? Good thing or not? Connectivity If you didn’t like SPD before get ready to Love it! Extend your VS 2010 solutions in SPD 2010 in the same DLL / Object Space Tooling Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

14. Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams Grow your SharePoint Lexicon Business Connectivity Services – Umbrella Term Business Data Connectivity (BDC) – plumbing, runtime OM, connectivity, formerly the Buss. Data Catalog External System – back ends, LOB, WS, WCF, DB, etc. External Content Type (ECT) - previously your Entity in BDC External List – newest type of SP list

15. Architecture Diagram Business Connectivity Services in a Nutshell… SharePoint Design Tools Office Applications BCS Client Dev Platform Enterprise Search Business Intelligence Collaboration Social Enterprise Content Management SharePoint Designer Solution Packaging and Out of the box UI Security Visual Studio Business Data Connectivity Runtime BDC Metadata Store Web 2.0 DB WCF Web Service LOB Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

16. Business Data Connectivity (BDC) Presentation in SharePoint Business Data Connectivity (BDC) BDC Metadata Store BDC Client Runtime BDC Server Runtime Client Data Cache DB Connector WCF/WS Connector .NET Assembly Connector Custom Connector Client to Backend Direct Connection External data Custom .NET assembly SQL SAP ORACLE Siebel Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

17. What is Baked Into the Product – Bag of Tricks so to speak SharePoint Server 2010 Office 2010 Secure Store Service External Data Search Rich Client Extensions BDC Client Runtime External Data Web Parts Profile Pages SharePoint Foundation 2010 External List External Data Column Business Data Connectivity Service Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

19. Familiar UI and navigation

20. Sort, Filter, Group

21. Profile page available for each item in the list

23. Empower your Users to be more Productive NO CODE* CODE SharePoint Designer SharePoint SDK Visual Studio Advanced Developer Developer Power User Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

25. Use custom code to integrate data into any Office app

26. Business logic in forms

27. Create reusable components (UI parts, ECTs, actions)

28. Customize

29. InfoPath forms

30. Workflow

31. Web Part Pages

32. Outlook taskpane and ribbon

33. Out-of-box

34. Surface data in External Lists

35. Connect those lists to Outlook, SPW

36. External Data ColumnsIntermediate Simple Advanced NO CODE* CODE SharePoint Designer SharePoint SDK Visual Studio Advanced Developer Developer Power User Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams

37. demo Blog: http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com Twitter: @fabianwilliams