This week, we learned about the Business Data Catalog , or BDC and My Sites.

My Sites are pretty neat, as it is a way to add social networking into Sharepoint, adding User Profiles, and allows the users to create their own personal sites. It is an extremly useful feature which allows people within the Sharepoint environment to collaborate with one another based on common experience.

BDC is a very big and important feature of MOSS. It allows Sharepoint to accesss and work with all kinds of data whether it’s inside or outside of Sharepoint. It’s even possible to add this data without even using code! It works with external databases, as well as Web Services.

Cool stuff!