The Business Data Catalog (BDC) with SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Server provides some powerful ways of displaying external data from systems such as SQL, Oracle and SAP. You can display the data within Web Parts, Search the data through the Enterprise Search, use the data as meta data within SharePoint Lists and Libraries, plus much more.
Without our tool ‘BDC Meta Man’, in order to create the connection to each of your external data sources, you will need to write hundreds of lines of XML. BDC Meta Man is a Windows application that through drag and drop, you can create the connections to your external data sources within a few minutes.
BDC Meta Man is the first Business Data Catalog tool for all SharePoint Developers and Administrators interested in line of business data integration with SharePoint.