You can use Application Integration BCS to integrate your Microsoft® Office 2007 applications and Outlook with document management features, such as accessing your favorites folder, performing a simple search or quickly adding documents and checking the documents in or out of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Workplace XT provides site preferences that are specific to Application Integration BCS, and they determine some of the settings that affect the document management tasks you complete within an integrated Office application.
Integrated applications using Application Integration BCS contain IBM ECM commands.
If you are using Office 2007 and Workplace XT, it is recommended you use Application Integration BCS to integrate some of the features available in Workplace XT, but it is not required. Refer to Download Application Integration BCS for more information.