SharePoint 2013 - Business Connectivity
Business Connectivity Services Features Overview
Business Connectivity Services allows SharePoint developers to hook into external line-of-business (LOB) data for SharePoint integration. BCS is the step needed in SharePoint 2013 to connect external systems to a central system and make it easier to create solutions that can benefit your business.
SharePoint 2013 has extended this service to include a new Eventing (event handler) framework, OData as a supported data source, support for SharePoint apps, External list performance improvements, and a new client side object model (CSOM) API.
- The Eventing framework allows external notifications and alerts on external lists.
- BCS allows offline use for your external data and processes.
- Main performance improvements include data source filtering, sorting and ability to export to Excel.
- Deploy app scoped BDC models instead of just farm-scoped.
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