SharePoint can be your organisation's central repository for all knowledge and information. This wouldn't be complete without the ability to access information from the other company systems such as HR or accounting applications.
Fortunately SharePoint can be integrated with existing systems either using custom code or the SharePoint Business Data Catalog.
The Business Data Catalog is a feature, introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, to provide an easy way to integrate business data from back-end server applications, such as SAP or Siebel, without writing any code.
