Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services helps small and medium-sized businesses as well as bigger organizations put their business data to work—and create valuable business solutions. Use Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, or Microsoft SharePoint Online (part of Microsoft Office 365 cloud services) to unlock data and increase productivity.

Put your organization’s data to work with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010—and build valuable business solutions. Led by a team of SharePoint experts, you’ll learn how to integrate data from several systems—such as sales, accounting, and inventory—and then search, display, combine, and modify the information using code and no-code SharePoint solutions. This hands-on guide is ideal for SharePoint project managers, business analysts, architects, and administrators.

Create a central hub for your business data with SharePoint 2010

• Access data from applications and databases using Business Connectivity Services
• Create external lists in SharePoint to display your business data
• Build dashboards to present charts and key performance indicators
• Use business information offline with Microsoft Office applications
• Create custom SharePoint applications to insert, modify, and delete business data
• Populate SharePoint user profiles with information from several sources
• Build Business Connectivity Service solutions in SharePoint Online