Comments on: SharePoint 2010 and the bi-directional BDC http://charliem.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/sharepoint-2010-and-the-bi-directional-bdc/ My online Memory about Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Business Intelligence and all things technical Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kristian Kalsing http://charliem.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/sharepoint-2010-and-the-bi-directional-bdc/#comment-8737 Kristian Kalsing Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:51:00 +0000 http://charliem.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/sharepoint-2010-and-the-bi-directional-bdc/#comment-8737 You're right that the next version of the BDC, which evolves into the BCS, will have comprehensive capabilities for writing data back to LOB systems (refer to my post: http://kalsing.blogspot.com/2009/07/accessing-business-data-with-sharepoint.html). I share your concern in regards to the potential for business logic being bypassed. It emphasises two important points about doing this sort of integration: 1) Never write directly to database tables. At least, web services can have business logic built into them. 2) Always involve the LOB system experts. You’re right that the next version of the BDC, which evolves into the BCS, will have comprehensive capabilities for writing data back to LOB systems (refer to my post: http://kalsing.blogspot.com/2009/07/accessing-business-data-with-sharepoint.html).

I share your concern in regards to the potential for business logic being bypassed. It emphasises two important points about doing this sort of integration:
1) Never write directly to database tables. At least, web services can have business logic built into them.
2) Always involve the LOB system experts.

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