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2.1.2 Master Data Services

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Master Data Services (MDS) provides master data management (MDM) capabilities that help provide customers with a single authoritative data source to ensure the integrity of the data they use to make decisions. MDS includes an any-domain hub, a set of services, and an interface that enables organizations to manage important data assets for both line-of-business and analytic applications. MDS is a SQL Server database application, a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services application, and an ASPX application that includes the following:

  • Master Data Hub for central storage, authoritative source, versioning, rules, and transactions.

  • Stewardship Portal for model management, documentation, workflow, and integration.

MDS includes protocols that communicate between the MDS application and the MDS web user interface and between the MDS application and external applications [MS-SSMDSWS] [MS-SSMDSWS-15], as shown in the following figure.

MDS uses the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol [MS-TDS] to communicate with the Database Engine.

MDS architecture

Figure 3: MDS architecture