BCS Meta Man is the powerful tool for the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010. It provides the ease of use of a drag-n-drop interface and can save you days in time by generating the code required by SharePoint 2010 to be integrated with your External Systems.
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Business Connectivity Services Configuration in Minutes
BCS Meta Man provides the ease of use of a drag and drop interface with the power of Visual Studio. It can save you days in time by generating the code required by SharePoint 2010 to read and write back to your External Systems. We have applied all we have learned from BDC Meta Man to develop the most powerful tool for the Business Connectivity Services.
Features & Benefits
Integrating your external data systems with SharePoint 2010 is made easy with BCS Meta Man. Although SharePoint Designer 2010 is great for simple SQL tables - anything more complex and you'll need something more powerful. BCS Meta Man can connect to SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, WCF and web services and save you days of configuration and development time.
Supports many data sources SharePoint Designer 2010 doesn't eg Oracle, ODBC (DB2, MySQL, PostreSQL, Sybase, MS Access etc)
Easy to configure WCF and web service connections
Much simpler to use than MS Visual Studio tooling - drag and drop experience
Allow modification of the code BCS MM generates
Easy configuration of External Content Type properties through wizard type UI
Can upgrade SharePoint 2007 BDC config files
Can upscale SharePoint Designer 2010 configurations to full code solutions
Getting Started
This handy guide will get you up and running with BCS Meta Man: Getting Started