Monday, December 21, 2009

New SharePoint Business Data List Connector for External Lists in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0

Microsoft SharePoint technology is added acclimated in SMBs and beyond companies as a business accord belvedere for the action and the web, to affix and empower people, to cut costs with a unified basement and rapidly acknowledgment to business needs.

The chargeless Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or – depending on requirements – the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are acclimated to apparatus business solutions for collaboration, certificate management, action agreeable and annal management, business intelligence, forms account and company-wide search. The fast, simple and complete affiliation of alien LOB data, e.g. from databases or Office files, is a accepted claim in the use of Microsoft SharePoint technology. While acceptable bequest applications generally abridgement in user experience, absolute abstracts affiliation solutions for SharePoint - such as the Business Data Catalog (BDC) - are generally circuitous at the facility, crave added tools, accompany with them limitations or they are accessible for assertive SharePoint editions only.

Connect business abstracts to MOSS and WSS lists after any programming or tools
The Business Data List Connector (BDLC) offers a "SharePoint External List" by abutting a absolute SharePoint account (no Web Part) to alien business back-end data, application a actual simple web-based account settings dialogue. No programming or added accoutrement are required. The BDLC can be configured calmly with a few simple account settings alone anon in the browser. The adapted abstracts can be busy to the account and presented with the accustomed UI and aeronautics appearance of accepted SharePoint lists fabricated available: Views, allocation and grouping, filters, affected fields. Lookup appearance can be created as accepted for presentation of and alternation with alien abstracts in SharePoint lists. The Business Data List Connector extends the SharePoint accord and seek capabilities as able-bodied as the Office user acquaintance to cover alien business abstracts and the processes that are associated with that data.

Start workflows in SharePoint to crop business accomplishments if alien LOB abstracts changes
The account abstracts can be adapted manually or automatically in background, application a timer service. List workflows and notifications per RSS or email can be acclimated out-of-the-box, to crop business accomplishments in SharePoint, if alien LOB abstracts annal are changed. For archetype the Business Data List Connector can be acclimated to apparatus a sales dashboard application, which empowers end users to accretion acumen into the basal abstracts in a reusable way, e.g. with aggregations and transformations and bound accepting notified in case of changes.

Download and appraise the SharePoint Business Data List Connector today
The new SharePoint add-on comes with a able-bodied installer to acquiesce it to be calmly deployed aural any SharePoint environment, including farms. It currently is accessible for SharePoint starting with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. You can download it anon on the vendor’s artefact pages at www.layer2.de/en/products. A absolutely chargeless to use shareware adaptation is aswell available.

Free to use for SharePoint User Groups (SPUG)
All apparatus offered by Layer2 are absolutely FREE to use aural a registered SharePoint User Group web website (back-link and logo required).

Cost-free accomplice affairs for implementers and affiliates
A cost-free accomplice affairs was launched to abutment companies that are absorbed to advertise and apparatus Layer2 articles about the world. Registered affiliates can bazaar Layer2 articles by agreement links on their web sites to the accordant artefact pages of the Layer2 web boutique on www.share-it.com. They will accept a 20% agency for anniversary auction of these articles via their web site. Additionally implementers accept able leads to accomplish use of Layer2 solutions in their own projects.
Please annals and accompany today.

About Layer2:
Layer 2 GmbH is a specialist for creating custom apparatus and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Based in Germany, Layer2 offers articles and solutions that add added appearance to portals based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, e.g. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 or the chargeless Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 / 4.0 (WSS). The articles – SharePoint web parts, appearance and solutions - are absolutely based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and abnormally advised to run on top of SharePoint technology and to accommodate calmly into the SharePoint user interface. The solutions are awash anon to end-customers or broadcast via a common fast growing accomplice arrangement of resellers and implementers.

For about 20 years Layer2 has been accepted as a reliable accomplice to barter in Central Europe, alms added consulting and casework in the fields of SharePoint, .NET-programming and IT-Infrastructure. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Layer2 offers a ample array of abysmal abstruse ability as able-bodied as a focus on end users and customers.

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