SharePoint Club – Interoperability MOSS

Pascal Scheller, Consultant, Getronics SA

Agenda

• Access of external Data SourcesIntroduction SharePoint Business Data Catalogue

Implementation BDC / Best Practices

• InfoPath and Reporting Services linked to external Data Sources

• Lesson Learned

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Introduction – Accessing external Data Sources

• By means of SharePoint Enterprise Server 2007 Business Data Catalogue (BDC)

Individual developed Web Parts and Features

InfoPath 2007 & Office Form Server

Reporting Services Reports

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Introduction – Business Data Catalogue (BDC)

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Introduction/Business Case – Business Data View

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Introduction/Business Case – KPIs on External Data

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Introduction/Business Case – Business Data Columns

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Implementing BDC – Connecting External Data

• Application Definition fileby hand/code (xml)

Toolbased

• Web Part for storing data within any data source

Toolbased web part generation

Programming your own solution based on a BDC Application Definition

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Implementing BDC - Toolbased Application Definition

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Implementing BDC - Toolbased Application Definition

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InfoPath & Reporting Services on external Data Sources

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DWH

Lesson Learned

• Business Data List Web Part without grouping functionality on external data

• Quick generation of BDC connection (Application Definition XML) by means of tools (Meta Man etc.)

• InfoPath 2007 Office Form Server lacks on feature for storing data to external sources

• BDC enables integrating external data sources into SharePoint without programming efforts

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Q & A

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Thanks for your attention!