Microsoft MDS Reviews

We have been able to have one true copy of data with Master Data Services. It's improved our organization by removing redundancies. It has reduced the duplication across a number of different databases.

The dynamic data masking, the row-level security, and the data quality business rules are the most valuable features of the solution.

The solution could be better integrated into Microsoft's other products.  

One of the key features that it doesn't have is a data modeling feature. Everyone uses Microsoft, but not for modeling. They use IBM, SAP PowerDesigner, etc. It would be really good to combine this solution with a modeler. For me, that's what is missing.

In a future release, I would like to see a better link to SSIS, Microsoft's business intelligence product. I would also like to see improvements in the user interface.

The solution is very stable.

I believe the solution is easiest to scale when housed by Azure. In previous installations, we housed 20-50 people, max.

Technical support is very good.

Every installation that I previously worked on had some form of Microsoft MDS.

I didn't handle the initial setup; it's dealt with by a different team. I believe it's very straightforward in terms of an installer having a model object package which contains all of the entities, attributes, groups, hierarchies, business rules, etc. And this is deployed as a package via an XML file. That's the standard way of doing it. 

We use the private cloud version of the solution.

The beauty with Master Data Services is that it's centralized in one place and the problem with other solutions is that most of them have been created in house. There is an overlap between them. 

The big advantage of this solution is with regards to a data warehouse. What you can do is cleanse the data and make it consistent throughout the warehouse before it gets into it, so it guarantees consistency.

I'd recommend Microsoft MDS. It's the best MDM tool out there.

I would rate the solution seven out of ten.

• Web Service integration
• Customer Workflow Extensions

This product provides a robust, flexible, and secure way for my organization and our customers to manage master data without the need to write code. MDS provides excellent integration options and a range of features such as auditing, trace-ability, and change capture.

The business rules definition interface could be improved. It is not the most intuitive or easy to use GUI.

We have used this for five years.

The product is very stable.

No scalability issues. The product performs well and has good options in this regard.

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.

This was the first MDM platform I had used.

The setup was very straightforward. The installation wizard and the configuration manager are simple and intuitive.

MDS is packaged as part of the Microsoft SQL Server platform and no additional license is required.

We evaluated Oracle and SAP.

MDS can be setup and used very quickly to establish if it can bring value to your organization. Don't hesitate based on the perception that MDM software is complex to implement.

Its data quality, as well as integration with other Microsoft tools.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I have only used it for a small scale prototype, but I am looking to scale it for millions of records in the near future.

It's good.

It's good.

We're using multiple solutions, and haven't actually switched it yet.

We used Azure Cloud service to set it up, and it was very easy to setup and configure. Cloud setup is the way to go.

We implemented it in-house.

We just looked at Gartner’s top leaders in this area.

Start small and scale incrementally. Cloud would be the ideal deployment option.

The safety is good, and it's pretty easy to generate queries. Also, the GUI is friendly, with new features, like stored procedures. It is really easy to create a Microsoft service.

More generic related things can be included in the services.

I have been using Microsoft MDS for three to four years.

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

Ten people are using this solution daily in our project.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

The initial setup is easy because there is another procurement team in order to get it installed on our machines. In large organizations, everything is separated. There is a team for everything. We request a service, there is a procurement team which will analyze and install it on our servers.

The data modeling capabilities are sufficient. We utilize it sparingly, primarily for generating a few schemas. Additionally, these schemas have remained unchanged. 

I recommend the solution because GUI is good. it is very user-friendly. It doesn't require much knowledge to use the service directly, making it a pretty easy-to-use solution.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.