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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Master Data Manager


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.

Accessing Master Data Manager

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.

Explorer

The Explorer part of the application will be the primary interface used by data stewards as it allows a user to carry...