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Microsoft Entity Framework for the Enterprise

Perficient just published a whitepaper authored by one of our Technical Architect in Indianapolis, Kyle Burns.   It’s titled, Microsoft Entity Framework for the Enterprise.  I’ll put the description below but for any who ask why my portal blog would care about something like that I say that more and more enterprise SharePoint implementations will accessing data from a  variety of sources.  Portal are meant to aggregate a variety of transactions, content, and data after all.  So if Microsoft introduces a tool to enable that, then it has relevance to SharePoint.

Application development in any business environment typically centers on the display and management of data. With the volume and complexity of data present in most enterprise environments, effective data access from applications can have a profound impact on the ability of the organization to conduct business and any shift to currently implemented data access strategies cannot be taken lightly.

Entity Framework is the data access API currently being recommended by Microsoft as the preferred method of retrieving and manipulating data from applications built using Microsoft Visual Studio. While many of the concepts that the Entity Framework are built upon are no longer new, the most effective use of the framework within an enterprise environment will require a shift in the strategies of many organizations. This paper discusses the advantages that a tool like Entity Framework brings to development organizations and then examines challenges to its effective use in an enterprise environment along with potential solutions for these challenges.

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Michael Porter

Mike Porter leads the Strategic Advisors team for Perficient. He has more than 21 years of experience helping organizations with technology and digital transformation, specifically around solving business problems related to CRM and data.

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