Microsoft MDS Reviews

Our primary use case of this solution is to develop solutions for our clients.

What I like about Microsoft, is that it has a huge database with many users.

I would like to see better pricing - a drop in price would be great. 

I have been working on Microsoft MDS for the past three years now.

The technical support is good. We are responsible for the maintenance of the program for our clients, and I believe that we've provided good support so far.

The price of the program has gone up, so I would like to see better pricing. But I like it that there are no additional fees that we have to pay.

If I have to rate this program from one to ten, I will give it an eight. My advice to others would be to use an activity log. They should have a user account and they should keep track of every user that logs on, and the platform should keep track of it.

I like the ease of deployment. It is very easy to deploy and provision a machine.

I like the analytics and that I can run them. Until now, this was always something that was done on the business side. For me, this solution makes it easier to do analytics.

With Oracle, they have to use an IBM business intelligence tool called Cognizer. But with Microsoft, the BI tool is better. So we are using Microsoft BI as it is quite good.

Most of the Microsoft partners, especially digitally, are separate. Personnel are business people, and they do not have technical expertise, so you end up as a company spending a lot of money training your staff and your engineers. This is something that Mircosoft needs to improve on. They must have personnel who have each shared capacity for their staff, so when it comes to implementation, it doesn't take a lot of time.

The implementation takes months, and it could even take as long as a year. The implementation is a small issue because Microsoft does not come to the ground, it is the personnel.

The only issue is pricing because technical support is there. Our engineers are well trained in Microsoft, and we have the Microsoft BI Office which is very helpful but pricing is a bit of a challenge.

There is not much to be corrected other than just improve continuously on the business intelligence section. That is important for businesses.

This solution was already in place when I arrived, and I have been working with it for more than ten years.

Technical support is okay, we have not had any problems. In the future, we plan to move to Office 365. In the next financial year, we will be purchasing the license for Office 365.

With Microsoft, we buy everything though an agreement, so we purchase volume licensing every year. That is how our licenses are managed.

I am an information security analyst and I research to stay up on the trends and to see what is happing on the market now because we run our Firewalls.

I would recommend getting the correct licenses. From the article, they should get to know which licenses, because there are different agents of licensing. 

Ensure they get the right size servers.

Ensure that they have the best technical expertise, to help with the implementation.

Microsoft products are quite good. We run innovation Microsoft 2017 and it's pretty impressive.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Our primary use case is to have a database of customers. We also use it to manage accounts.

We have an on-premises deployment.

The most valuable feature is the administration console.

You can import data from Excel.

In the next version, I would like to see integration with Azure.

The duplication feature is not so good.

The merge function should be improved to include better automation. For example, if two people have the same name, address, or mobile number then the records should be automatically merged. As it is now, I have to merge these records manually.

I would like to be able to generate a report of current operations.

I have had some errors that seem to be related to memory usage when there is a lot of data.

I have not been in contact with technical support. When I encounter issues I search for solutions on the web.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The initial setup of this solution is not complex.

The solution took us approximately one month to develop, and then one day to deploy.

I performed the deployment myself.

The pricing of this solution is good.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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.

• 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.