Todd Kitta

 Business Data Catalog (BDC) Basics  Web Parts  BDC Development  Search  API  Demo

 Expose business data with little to no code  Consumes data from relational databases and web services  Read-only; no updates out of the box  Requires Enterprise Edition of MOSS

 Bring business data into SharePoint using web parts  Link business data to list items  Augment back-end application functionality  Search

 Application  Entity  Action  Method  Association

 Actions bridge the gap between SharePoint and the backend application  Actions are links, therefore they can be whatever you want ◦ Custom Web Part Page ◦ Custom ASP.NET application ◦ InfoPath form

 List  Item  Related List  Actions  Item Builder

 BDC Applications are just XML; you can create apps in notepad  BDC Meta Man ($1,200) ◦ Includes web parts for KPIs, mapping business data, and displaying business data in a calendar  BDC Definition Editor (free with SharePoint SDK)  BDC Snippets in Visual Studio

 Define method to return a list of crawlable entity IDs  For incremental crawling, you also need to return the last modified date of the entity  Crawled properties are those returned in your BDC application  Mapped properties are available in the search experience (e.g. “lastname:smith”)

 Once your application is created… ◦ Add a content source with type of Business Data ◦ Defined mapped properties ◦ Create Search Scope

 Security must be treated specially when doing search because items are already indexed  This is done through “security trimming”  The back-end system must expose some method of checking access on an entity  The BDC will call this method at query time to ensure security is up to date

 Access BDC functions like get lists and find specific  Perform administrative functions  Develop custom search experiences for business data

 SAP  Siebel  Dynamics  AutoDesk  Rockwell Software  Many more...

 MSDN: us/library/ms aspxhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms aspx