MDS enables users to curate Sets of Objects. This capability is
powerful in a wide variety of scenarios across all organization levels
Data Solutions
Provides storage and
management of the
objects and metadata used
as the application
knowledge
•
Object mappings
•
Reference Data /
managed object lists
•
Metadata management
/ data dictionary
Data Warehouse /
Data Marts Mgmt
Enable business users to
manage the dimensions
and hierarchies of DW /
Data Marts
•
BI scenarios
Operational Data
Management
Central data records mgmt
and consumption sourced
by other operational
systems
A company has adopted 6 “best
of breed” systems from
different vendors. They need to
be able to propagate the
correct customer information to
each system in a consistent
way.
MDS provides a platform for
central schema, integration
points and validation for
SI/ISV/Internal IT to develop
a custom solution
Data
Management
Solutions
Provides storage and
Data
Warehouse/
Data
Marts
Enable
business users to
Mgmt
manage the dimensions
management of the
objects and metadata used
as the application
knowledge
•
and hierarchies of DW /
Data Marts
•
Object mappings
Reference Data /
managed object lists
Table containing information on mapping objects
between• different
systems.
ETL processes are
Metadata
management
referencing /the
table
making transformation
data
dictionary
decisions.
MDS enables business users to manage the objects
Canonical form
System A
System B
mapping
BI scenarios
•
Product Product
ID
Name
Color Size ID
Name Price
ID
Name
The IT department has built a data
warehouse and reporting platform, but
business users complain about the
correctness of the dimensions and lack of
agility in making updates.
MDS empowers the business users to
manage dimensions themselves while
IT can govern the changes
Validation
Authoring business rules
to ensure data
correctness
Modeling
Entities, Attributes, Hierarchies
Role-based Security and
Transaction Annotation
Excel AddIn
MDS
Master Data
Stewardship
Data Matching
(DQS Integrated)
Web UI
Versioning
Loading batched
data through
Staging Tables
Excel
Enabling Integration & Sharing
Registering to
changes through
APIs
DWH
Consuming data
through Views
Workflow /
Notifications
External
(CRM, ..)
WEB-UI
Excel Add-In
WCF
BizTalk / Others
Workflow /
Notifications
MDS Service
CRM/ERP
IIS Service
DWH
BizTalk / Others
BI
OLAP
SSIS
Excel
PW
Pivot
Subscription
Views
MDS Database
Entity Based
Staging Tables
Cleansing and
Matching
(DQS)
SSIS
External System
External
System
Post SQL2012
SQL2012
A Service
Enhance curation
SQL
2008R2
Building the foundation
V1 product
Empowering IW through
Excel Add-in and improved
Web UI
Enhanced performance and
scalability
Improved quality (usability,
robustness, security)
Enhanced collaboration and sharing
Improved data quality
Further empowering business users
through simplified, advanced
modeling capabilities
Better productivity
Improved productivity through
external IP (data types and models)
Sharing and reuse