<em>Pro SharePoint 2010 Cloud-Based Business Connectivity Services </em>is a practical, real-world guide to using SharePoint's BCS platform in the cloud to connect to your business applications, surface the data, and harness the power of SharePoint to deliver meaningful results. <p></p> With Business Connectivity Services, you can find, extract and slice and dice data from any application or database and present it in useful and easily customizable reports for a variety of audiences. <p></p> Microsoft has extended the capabilities of BCS to operate in cloud-based instances of SharePoint 2010, meaning you can now tap the full potential of BCS in hosted environments, allowing for low licensing costs, incredible elasticity of scale, and rapid deployment.<em><p></p> </em>The only book on the market to dedicate its coverage of BCS to the cloud using Microsoft's hosted offerings and other providers' hosted, multitenant solutions, <em>Pro SharePoint 2010 Cloud-Based Business Connectivity Services</em> takes you through understanding, building, modifying, and deploying highly useful and attractive cloud-based BCS applications to your audience.<p></p> Author <strong>Fabian Williams</strong>, a premier SharePoint solutions architect, shows you inside how to:<p></p> <ul> <li>create coded and no-code cloud solutions with BCS </li> <li>understand real-world scenarios and BCS applications </li> <li>build solutions with SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, SQL Azure, and more. </li> </ul>