Introduction
SharePoint Server 2013 has been optimized for the way people work,
providing people with a familiar, consistent view of information,
collaboration, and process, and IT with a comprehensive, easily-managed
and integrated platform to meet the needs of the business.
New features of sharePoint 2013
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Branding
The design features in SharePoint 2013
offer an improved process for designing a public-facing internet site
or an internal-facing intranet site with pixel-perfect branding. If you
are a professional web designer who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you
already have the skills necessary to design a SharePoint site. The new
features in a publishing site minimize the amount of SharePoint
knowledge that is required to successfully design and brand a SharePoint
site.
Business Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity
Services offers improvements to the way that SharePoint 2013 and Office
2013 clients can access data that is stored outside of SharePoint.
These improvements include support for apps in SharePoint, external list
improvements to provide functional parity with other SharePoint lists,
and support for OData Business Data Connectivity (BDC) connections.
Visual Studio 2010 can connect to an OData endpoint through business
Connectivity Services to automatically generate a BDC model for OData
data sources. There is a SharePoint 2013 event listener and subscriber
to receive notifications from external systems when data changes.
Note:
SharePoint exposes list data via OData.
