Last November Microsoft rolled out an update to SharePoint Online, part of Office 365, that enabled users to leverage BCS connections to consume and work with data that doesn't live inside SharePoint Online.

I'm very much looking forward to this show every year. I've got a handful of sessions I'm co-presenting with other folks as the show is doing something a bit different.

In the past I've complained about the Salesforce SOAP API for reading/writing your CRM databases. Last year Salesforce added a new API, one founded on RESTful principals, for developers to work with.