November's Baltimore SharePoint User's Group meeting will be a treat
as we will host the SharePoint "Road Warrior" Fabian Williams.
Fabian is often on the road supporting SharePoint deployments and
it will be great to have him at our meeting. He will be discussing
SharePoint 2010.

Session Title:
All About Business Connectivity Services. What It Is and Why You Should Care.

Session Overview:
Business Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data
Catalog) provides read/write access to external data from
line-of-business (LOB) systems, Web services, databases, and other
external systems within Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has
product features that can use external data directly, both online and
offline. Come and kick the tires! Demo External Lists, Content Types
and Web Parts to BCS

About Fabian:

Fabian Williams is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW
Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of
Herndon Virginia. Mr. Williams has a Bachelors degree in Computer
Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, D.C. and is 9
Credits and a Capstone away from Masters in CIS at Johns Hopkins
University in Columbia Maryland. In addition, he is a Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Solutions
Developer (MCSD) and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
(MCDBA). Prior to CDW., Mr. Williams was the Chief Technology Officer
for WING, Inc. Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developer for the
Department of Defense’s Global Emerging Infections System and a Sales
Engineer at Citrix Incorporated.

Doors open at 6pm. Food and beverages will be served.

Sponsor: Surfray, UMBC Tech Center

Thanks for your continued support of BSPUG
Mr. Shadeed Eleazer
Baltimore SharePoint User's Group Co-Founder/Organizer