Category Archives: Technology
PSUG Monthly Session, SharePoint Integration with Oracle
This Month’s Session for Palestinian SharePoint User Group was about SharePoint Integration With Oracle, and how to use Business Connectivity Services in Order to use SharePoint as an interface for other types of external databases.
In SharePoint 2007, Business connectivity services was only reading data from Outer Databases such as Oracle and SQL, now in 2010 edition you can add and edit using SharePoint.
You can use either SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio for Business Connectivity , in VS using a third party named BDC Meta Man. by Connecting to the wanted Database, Configure permissions, tables and records wanted.
When Connection is done, an external content type is created, and external list will be created then to get data from that content type. then you can use the list as same as any other list in SharePoint (add, edit, delete, etc.) you also can set some rules such as cascading delete cases for example.
the most important limitation about external lists is that you CANNOT create a workflow on those.
You can also use SharePoint Powerful search engine to search content from external databases, set the rules of it and configure it and, we are done!. I loved the fact that some companies that have many software’s on different platforms uses SharePoint Search engine because it can be attached to all those software’s databases and get results of all of them together.
Come Join us next time 
PSUG Session, Office 365
Yesterday, PSUG’s leader: Saed Shela Introduced the Beta Version on “Office 365” to the local community.
The Session started with What is Office 365, the products included in it for End User, features and added value of it and benefits of Using it for Enterprise companies.
Then Speaker moved to a live DEMO starting from creating a new account up to setting it for user Desktop and took the attendees in a tour around.
Finally he talked about the Support, Helpdesk, Privacy and Security of the product, and the plans for pricing and licensing.
Yes, its pretty cool to use for both Technical and none Technical people 
Some Advantages like Co-Authoring (multiple authors at the same time on the same document), availability on multiple browsers and platforms , Using Lync and SharePoint are some of the features this new product has.
If you care to know more visit Office 365 Site , you can create your own Beta Account form there.
Or visit Office 365 Facebook Page
And if you care to attend such session visit our community page on Facebook: PSUG Page
You can also Download the Slides of the Session from HERE
SharePoint 2010 For Students – Baby Steps (3)
SharePoint 2010, the “Wheel” ..
In case My previous Post got your attention, my guess would be that you’ve done a small online search about SharePoint, I would also guess you have seen this picture somewhere and wondered what does it mean, that’s what we are going to talk about in this post.
This Image represents Services offered by SharePoint, in other words, what can SharePoint do for you.
Lets start with “Sites”; SharePoint makes websites, I guess its obvious for anybody ! you can call it as a massive website Engine, you don’t need to be a programmer or web designer to create a Site, you simply choose a template and simple clicks and BAAM, you have a site.
Unlike most of websites among the Internet, users not only are readers in SharePoint Sites, they can edit pages, add pictures, change content, and so many options will be mentioned in later posts.
As for the term “Communities” SharePoint helps you work with other people, it can offer a collaboration Environment for its users, company wide Wikipedia’s, team sites, shared calendars, task lists, document can be edited by several people and so on.
This Huge product gives you a place to save your “Content”, Pictures, videos, Documents, as well as Sharing them with others.
So, when Contents keep growing to be large one, you certainly need some kind of “Search” engine to find what you want as fast as possible, SharePoint have that service for you too, it has a very complex Search Engine that you can set it’s policies by yourself, it can also search for people.
You will be no longer working with data in the old conventional ways, using “Insights” you can present data in very un-manual advanced ways, presenting data in ways that actually makes sense. Visio diagrams, spread sheets, dashboards and business intelligence systems. making it easier to make decisions based on the results.
SharePoint has capabilities to be extended, again, “Composites” helps you do that, you don’t have to be a programmer, you can use tools and programs such as Visio and SharePoint designer to build business workflows without writing code for instance.
It seems like I’ve talked a lot, but this is nothing compared to the options and services offered by SharePoint, you can spend months learning one section of those if you decided to go deeper, you can choose your way and be professional at it 
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this link might help you more : SharePoint Wheel
Hope this post helped you knowing more What SharePoint is, more is coming, stay tuned.
also you can read :
SharePoint baby steps (1) on Mohamed Saleh, SharePoint MVP Blog
SharePoint Lady 