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Welcome back to Part 7 of our 8 Business Data Catalog (BDC) series. In this article, we will be focusing on the BDC Object Model.

In our everyday work we all use several Line-of-Business systems as well as all of us know well the Office client applications. Although the integration between them is not too common yet, I’d like to show you the advantaged and disadvantages, pros and cons of the integration, and give some useful tips and tricks if you decide to make some OBAs.

Welcome to my seven-part series about Office Business Applications (OBAs). In these articles I want to show you the world of OBAs, which is my favorite topic I’ve ever worked with.
I’m going to do this by introducing you through the whole process, and I’ll build up a demo for you with lots of examples.

Just trying to read the title of this article is quite a mouth full, so I will start by explaining where this idea came from and why I am not using the acronyms as most IT people do.