Business Connectivity Services (BDC)

First session of today was about the next generation of the Business Data Catalog, now known as the Business Connectivity Services.

They have now added write functionality, which is a great improvement. Also, you can now connect enitities to office. The main example was hooking up a customers table to a sharepoint list, and to outlook contacts and beeing able to edit the back-end system from outlook contacts.

This raises some questions regarding security which wasn't adressed at this point.

You could probably build som neat applications with the new functionality...