Introduction
By Steve Fox
Office Business Applications
I don’t want to steal any thunder from the authors who helped put this book together, but before you get underway I just want to help set the stage for this book by giving you a glimpse of what’s to come.
Office Business Applications (OBAs) are a new type of composite application that integrate line-of-business (LOB) systems (such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft Dynamics) to Office, whether it be the client (for example, extending the Excel 2007 Ribbon) or the server [for example, integrating an SAP Web service with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Business Data Catalog (BDC)]. OBAs are an important new development in the realm of enterprise solutions development. They enable ...
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