Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2013

The SharePoint 2013 and the Office 2013 suites include Microsoft Business Connectivity Services. With Business Connectivity Services, you can use SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 clients as an interface into data that doesn’t live in SharePoint 2013 itself.

• OData support
  
• Automatic generation of BDC models for OData data sources
  
• Event listener
  
• Support for apps for SharePoint
  
• External list enhancements
  
• Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Online enhancements
  
• REST (CSOM) object model for Microsoft Business Connectivity Services for web and mobile app developers
  
• Business Connectivity Services Client Runtime supports side-by-side Office 2010 and Office 2013 installations
  
• OData Windows PowerShell cmdlets
  
• Additional resources