Master Data Manager is the primary mechanism for accessing all the Master Data Services functionality and is therefore the focus of the earlier parts of this book. We will introduce Master Data Manager in this section, before covering the detailed functionality in further chapters.
With the default installation settings, Master Data Manager is accessed in a web browser by typing http://<servername>/MDS/
. This takes us to the front page, as shown in the following screenshot:
As indicated in the previous screenshot, Master Data Manager has five functional areas that users of the application may access, namely:
Explorer
Version Management
Integration Management
System Administration
User and Group Permissions
We will now look at each of these functions in turn, and explore how they can help with an MDM initiative.