Just Announced: Digital Asset Management in the Cloud has arrived!
I have had the pleasure of working with Equilibrium on some competitive opportunities, promoting SharePoint 2010 as a collaboration platform for digital asset management – great folks and a great...
View ArticleNow Officially Partners with Profisee
BlumShapiro is now one of a select few consulting firms working directly with Profisee to deliver rich tools for SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services. This makes life in our Microsoft BI and Master...
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Auto-Generating a Master Data Member Code
In SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services, one of the first design decisions you will need to explore is: How will we uniquely identify a master data record? In MDS, each member has a Name and a...
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Key Improvements to Master Data Services are on the way
SQL Server 2012 – formerly known as “Denali” – will be available March 7, 2012. My colleagues at Blum Shapiro have been participating in private technical sessions with the SQL Server team over the...
View ArticleWhere is my “Homeless” Master Data?
The first question to be asked in any Master Data Management project is: Where is my Master Data? The prevailing assumption seems to be that master data lives in an ERP table called “the Customer...
View ArticleMember Level Security in SQL Server Master Data Services
SQL Server Master Data Services provides a rich security model for authorizing discrete access to the Master Data Hub. I believe strongly that Master Data should be widely visible to the broadest...
View ArticleRecord Bulk Annotations in SQL Server Master Data Services
I had a request from a client last week which I thought was worth sharing. Essentially, the data stewards would like the technology team to set an attribute for over 2000 customer accounts...
View ArticleMaster Data Services API at Code Camp 5
This weekend was a bit of stretch for me: 2 presentations on MDM and 1 production “Go-Live” with MDS, BizTalk and JD Edwards 9. Stressful. But Bob and SB who run the CT Code Camps made the second...
View ArticleCloud Databases Gaining Momentum
Typical cloud computing analysis over the past few years has focused upon 3 fundamental offerings: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)....
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Data Warehouse as a Service is Here
Cloud Computing has a new acronym: WaaS, or Warehousing as a Service, and if you are intrigued by the cost savings promised by Infrastructure as a Service, Warehousing as a Service will take your...
View ArticleSecuring Large Data Models in Master Data Services 2012
I ran into this issue today when experimenting with the security capabilities in SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services. I am working with a very large Product data model for a Manufacturing client....
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Master Data Maestro 3.0 Released
If you are working with SQL Server Master Data Services 2012 to develop real-world Master Data Models for your enterprise, then you have likely struggled with the model design environment provided out...
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