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Bronze Contributor

Mar 23, 2017

Future of BCS?

Hi all, I am looking for opinions on the current state of BCS, primarily in SharePoint Online / O365 context. Would you still build solutions on it in green field scenarios or would you prefer ot...

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Mar 30, 2017

Spoiler

BCS definitely seems to be in no-new-investment, and rare to see bug fixes. I've had several folks on the product team confirm to me that nobody owns it anymore.

I am doing a session on exactly this subject at SPTechCon next week.
(Wither BCS, alternatives etc)
http://www.sptechcon.com/classes#BringingExternalContentintoSharePointisBCSdeadWhatsnext

I'm pretty much set for this but if you guys have any suggestions of what you would like to see in this kind of session by all means let me know.

BCS definitely seems to be in no-new-investment, and rare to see bug fixes. I've had several folks on the product team confirm to me that nobody owns it anymore.I am doing a session on exactly this subject at SPTechCon next week. (Wither BCS, alternatives etc)http://www.sptechcon.com/classes#BringingExternalContentintoSharePointisBCSdeadWhatsnextI'm pretty much set for this but if you guys have any suggestions of what you would like to see in this kind of session by all means let me know.

Eric Adler

Iron Contributor

Mar 30, 2017

While I won't be there, it would be great to know if there are any opportunities to use the Enterprise Data Gateway (EDG) to make data available in SharePoint. Sounds like external content types are dead.

How about other data connections utilizing the EDG? Maybe to an Excel file?

Are their opportunities to leverage PowerApps or Flow with EDG & SPO?